Here's the response from LeeRoy. Hopefully, one of the moderators can straighten out his PP problem.....


7-1-16 2:46PM

To those of you who follow my LeeRoy's Ramblings fishing/hunting/outboard motor repair articles, I have an apology. My site has been down for about a week. The front/opening page is there, but you can not access anything behind that.



The situation is that on one article, I used 2 photos that were copyrighted. These were of knot tying & were in color, but they had the copyright logo imbedded in the background. Apparently I must have a slight amount of color-blindness (could not clearly see the imbedded part).



Last week I was sent a letter from a firm representing the author, saying these images needed to be taken down within 48 hours.

At the same time, my web host had slightly changed my web address (to further protect it??) & if they sent me a notice, I did not see it. As a result, I could get in but could upload these deletions, until I got a web tecky out (who had a doctors appointment that he was not aware of at the same time his office had me booked). So he was here the next day & got it fixed, but it was to late for their 48hr timetable. So my web hosting company killed my site.



Nowhere in these instructions was there any way to contact the copyright holder so I could make any arrangements



E-mail communications from my web host were not responded to in a timely manner. I finally did a phone call to them & was walked thru how to delete items off their "Master". I was told at that time that it would be up in 24 hours, BUT THAT DID NOT HAPPEN.



More e-mails & finally they acknowledged it was OK, and now all I had to do was to return an e-mail agreement (in legal terms) & everything would be a go to open my site. Did not happen, so more phone calls & apparently I did not have the proper legal wording. So copy & paste things I do not understand. Lastly I was informed since this was a Federal infringement, my returned e-mail now has to go to a US District Court Judge in Massachusetts, which could take another 10 business days. So here we are into the 4th of July long week-end. My hope now is that all the I's & T's are dotted/crossed.



Of the photos I use, 98% are taken by me. I do have permission for others that I know, or that I can track down, but a few are snatched off social media. So if any of you can identify any of my photos as yours, please let me know & I can give you credit (or delete them as you wish).



LeeRoy Wisner



Now I seem to have a PP log on problem, & they say they have sent me an e-mailed new temp password, but it is not coming in.