Hi all,
Sorry I'm late to the discussion!
I happened to stumble onto visualtarot.com from a link on a Brazilian blog while looking up tarot-terms in Portuguese (my new iPhone App version of Touchstone Tarot will be available in Spanish and Portuguese).
Annnyway, I saw Touchstone on the front page of his site as an 'update' (along with Tarot of Prague, Housewives Tarot and a bunch of other copyrighted decks).
I asked him to remove it, and told Kunati about the copyright breach. I also emailed the site's hosts (in Canada) and also various reputable software-download sites on which the software is advertised (eg PCworld, softpedia). Kunati sent a threatening Cease and Desist letter.
Seems to have done the trick to some extent - at least he's removed the deck off the front page today.
I also advised USGS, Llewellyn and Lo Scarabeo but it seems they've ignored me as their decks are still all over his website.
After finding this thread, the 'I use less than 10%' justification cracked me up. How is using a whole deck 'less than 10%'? Because it's so small you can only see 10% of the image? lol
Also, he didn't buy and scan my deck, he just stole images off
http://78friends.com/touchstone - so he's lazy and too cheap to even buy a copy of the deck, in addition to being a pirate trying to profit off the work of others.
If he's reading this thread...
Mr Lapshin, you are a fool (and I don't mean in the 'beginning your tarot journey' kind of way). Your claims to understand international copyright are complete rubbish.
Why not just use public-domain decks such as the RWS version that appears on wikipedia, or find some unpublished decks and make agreements with the artists, as Orphalese did. And while you're at it, why not get a graphic designer to redo your website and your Program interface? For a program called Visual Tarot it's butt-ugly.