Let h be a homeomorphic bijection between hyperbolic Riemann surfaces R and
R'. If there is a conformal mapping of R into R' homotopic to h, then for
any hyperbolic geodesic c on R the length of the hyperbolic geodesic freely
homotopic to the image h(c) is less than or equal to the hyperbolic length
of c. We show that the converse is not necessarily true.