Someone Stole my Avatar!!

[Burnside Bob]

Yep, check it out:




I've been robbed!!

But at least the contents were tasty!!!

Coonawara Australian Cabernet Sauvignon Penley Estate "Phoenix".

Bottoms up.

Burnside

[ROBERT CROSS]

Bob, join me for some...



Bob
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PS...it is very good.

[Burnside Bob]

Well, I'll drink to that, Bob. And you are on on your offfer.

BTW, not the first time my Air Forums persona has been infringed upon:





Contents pretty good, too, so can't say too much, BUT what is in a name, anyhow!!

[Isuzusweet]

I'm a little ticked for Caroll Shelby taking my family's coach business name and putting it on a Mustang.

My family operated the King of the Road coach business until the late 70's.

Cheers
Sidekick Tony

[Burnside Bob]

That Shelby business s u c k s. I can't really complain as I lifted my avatar from a book that was in the public domain at the time, namely Friedrich Justin Bertuch's 1790 Bilderbuch für Kinder. That may have changed as Alamy now lists the specific image on its website, albeit "royalty free". Possibly the winery paid Alamy for use of the image, although the winery did change it a bit.

I'm not sure how copyright law works. I dabble in genealogy and many, many original published sources of genealogical info are in the public domain BUT if a contemporary person/entity copies that non-copyrightable material into a current publication, the new publication can be copyrighted, and you can't quote the material "in its present form" without permission of the copyright holder even tho the present form reads verbatim of the original.

Anyhow, here's a photo of the actual Phoenix page from Bertuch's Bilderbuch.