I took you up on your invitation, Don. It took a lot of time to assemble these links. I couldn't find much else pertaining to the granite issue. But at least members can see where this was discussed in the past. Believe me, I'm not writing this to "call you out" or anything, but you did use the term granite for anery-bloods in the link I provide from September of last year. You did not mention the Keys-morph granites in that post. :shrugs:
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Yeah, I see that I did refer to those as GRANITES, but did so while I was biting my tongue. I put that in parentheses so they would realize what I was talking about. Since this forum ROME speaks that language, I cited their word for it. Of course, you will notice they're anery bloods on my web site. You'll see that I don't even AKA for nick names of those. The whole issue upsets me so much, I can't imagine me ever calling them granites. I know most of you won't understand why I'm mad about it, but it's obvious that when they chose to use that name KNOWING it was already used elsewhere, it really got under my skin. When they refused to listen to Rich and me, well . . . I guess you can tell it's still there. Under my skin. Arrgggh.
I'm very impressed with everyone having open minds about this problem. I never wanted anyone to analyze the legal aspects. I know about protecting copyrights and clearly, that wasn't being done. Who is going to hire attorneys to fight the theft of a corn snake morph name? Who has that much money in this business? My appeals to everyone here weren't to analyze whether a crime had been committed, but to 1) recognize that the name WAS stolen and 2) help figure out a way to fix this. You see, my main reason for doing this is my upcoming book. At this point, I intend to call the original one granite and the anery bloods anery bloods. Unless we come up with a mutually agreeable solution, people will see that the two latest corn snake books are calling the brown ones GRANITES while the Internet calls the black ones GRANITES. They'll be faced with wondering, "are those two book authors so out of touch they don't know what's going on OR are the forums divorcing themselves from the printed media?". Once they see the testimonies that proved the name was in commerce when it was virtually reassigned to the anery bloods, the credibility of the forums could come under scrutiny. Of course, one relative blemish like this isn't going to sway people to stop trusting Internet forums, but it would be better if the books and the Internet were parallel. My goal is to find a way to make the books (mind and Kathy's) agree on the names for these morphs. I don't see a clear solution, but I hope we can come up with something.
Thank you all for your time and concerted efforts to look at this objectively. I never wanted opinions about the legitimacy of name ownership as much as I wanted to give folks a chance to stop me from adding one more book to our libraries that has a glaring contradiction of morphs name. Re: Internet Vs printed publications.
I will soon be asking for images that I'd like to put in this book. It will have over 300 images and I'd like good photographs from as many people as possible. Unlike some of the books out there, each person that supplies a photograph will be credited in the caption of the picture. Not at the end of the book in a paragraph nobody reads. I will soon give details of the size and quality prerequisites for the images.
