Send them a complaint and if nothing I wouldn't mind making a thread on a few sites, I see it as another stupendous fail on their end. What is worse they voilated copyright or they took an image of a broken card, pretty dumb of them and one more reason to not buy their products. They hardly ever get their drivers right anyway and the heaters for cpus they produce are behind the times.

I also don't appreciate the whole "30 year anniversary" bullshit. ATi is long dead. Rest in peace.

Yeah I'd hit em with a notice - sounds like some lazy sod just used google to do their job. Shame on them.

30 years of bugged video drivers? Yeah, right...

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30 years of bugged video drivers? Yeah, right...

Maybe that kind of bullshit could stay out of this topic/site ?
First, there are other places for that, specialized in low IQ troll (wccftech, videocardz, fudzilla ...)
Second, it's bullshit.
Third, that's not what the topic is about, it's about unrespected copyright.

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Hello,

maybe someone noticed that AMD recently started their "30 years of graphics and gaming" celebration:
http://www.amd.com/en-us/who-we-are/corporate … nts/amd-30-live
There will also be some livestream on saturday.

These news were also distributed by the german site 3dcenter.org who cited the timeline presentation of AMD:
http://www.3dcenter.org/news/amd-livestream-z … ng-am-23-august
Same can be found on Instagram and Twitter:
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23AMD30Live&src … ash&mode=photos
http://instagram.com/amd

So as I collect also old cards, I noticed that the "EGA Wonder and VGA Wonder debut" image is taken from my gallery at
http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pictures.html
specifically it is this image: http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pics/ati_vgawonder.jpg

If you zoom in on the larger image from 3dcenter you notice that there is the watermark "enigma" right above the main chip and also the same codings on the chips.
Of course they did not contacted me in advance and I did not knew they used it.

What is much worse is the following fact:
The pictured card is actually a broken one. I have the picture on the gallery in addition to a working VGA Wonder XL. It is actually mentioned in the description in my gallery that the card is broken, as the Quartz and BIOS chip have been removed. So the AMD marketing guys took an image of broken VGA Wonder card for their 30 years celebration event from my gallery in a line with their other best innovations.

Well done AMD, maybe you should have contacted me in advance.
(The email contact is linked on top of the gallery page.)

Regards

Get a lawyer and sue them.

The user Marodeur3D at 3dcenter.de noted that TechPowerUp shows the picture on their site at
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2040/vga-wonder.html
and AMD may have taken it from there.
TechPowerUp didn't contacted me either.

Sue both of them

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The user Marodeur3D at 3dcenter.de noted that TechPowerUp shows the picture on their site at http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/20 […]
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The user Marodeur3D at 3dcenter.de noted that TechPowerUp shows the picture on their site at
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/2040/vga-wonder.html
and AMD may have taken it from there.
TechPowerUp didn't contacted me either.

TPU does at least cite lipsia.de for the image (I don't know if this is or isn't legally sufficient in terms of acknowledging/respecting your copyright to the image) - I'm sure you could push the issue with TPU and get the image taken down or get the citation changed. But that wouldn't change AMD's shameless use of unattributed images for marketing materials... 😵

And it's really unfortunate to see this - they could've spent an extra 5 minutes to find out where the various images they're grabbing are coming from (if they aren't taking internal marketing images that is), and done a little bit of "community involvement goodwill" as part of whatever marketing thing they're doing.

TPU added the citation after I contacted them.
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