[mdlug-discuss] Copyright violations

[Aaron Kulkis]

Wolfger wrote:
> While not technically required (to the best of my IANAL knowledge), it
> might help if your copyright notice appeared at the bottom of all
> pages, not just the home page.
> FWIW, I think you should drop them a line and let them know that they
> violated your copyright, even if you don't mind. The GPL, Creative
> Commons, et cetera, all rely on copyright law. So even when we're
> sharing, we need to keep people aware of copyright. Otherwise we're
> all just a bunch of filthy pirates. Arr.

When's national talk-like-a-pirate day?


> 
> On Jan 23, 2008 1:39 PM, Ingles, Raymond <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com> wrote:
>> I saw this article on Slashdot about two weeks ago:
>>
>>  http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/01/09/1849230
>>
>>  ...about companies using for commercial purposes pictures nabbed from
>> personal websites. I didn't think it would happen to me, but a couple days
>> ago I found this in a Google image search:
>>
>>  http://www.engadget.com/2006/04/01/30-years-in-apple-products-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/2
>>
>>  Search for "se/30" on that page, and then compare to the picture on:
>>
>>  http://ingles.homeunix.net/websrv/
>>
>>  I appreciate their rationale for not linking to my site, but they could
>> have (by law, should have) dropped me a note asking for permission to copy
>> the photo. I got no notification whatosever, and it's been almost two years
>> since the article was posted.
>>
>>  Y'all might want to do some image searches of your own.
>>
>>  Sincerely,
>>
>>  Ray Ingles                                        (313) 227-2317
>>
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