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These seastacks are volcanic plugs of basalt. They were created when magma hardened within a vent on an active volcano.
The surrounding lands are steeped in folklore: farmers have never made use of the fields around the Lóndrangar basalt cliffs due to the elves that are rumoured to live there.
This lifesize carving stands outside a tourist shop on St. George St. in St. Augustine, FL. I originally posted this on my blog in protest of photo-piracy and other types of stealing on the internet.
État # 1, en processus au cours de l'été 2013. le tableau est maintenant très différent. Vais-je le finir une jour?
State # 1, work in progress, summer 2013. This painting is now quite different. Will I ever finish it?
Hi all!
just some copyright infringement news to share...
Full investigation report by Pat Brunet
www.eventphotos.com.au/news/image-theft-is-a-crime/
LATEST NEWS UPDATE
Thank you all for the support with the links to bring this matter to the front for the interest of photographers.
I hope this will benefit those in doubt of what to do when similar cases arises.
Cheers to all!
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mails exchange
Laura McLaughlin of Ink Global wrote:
Dear Mr Cho
Thank you for your email. In order to resolve this matter as quickly and as amicably as possible, we agree to your request of S$750 (plus a credit in a future edition of the magazine). I apologise again for what was, I must assure you, an honest mistake by Ink.
I will contact Gus Low directly as per your suggestion, and payment will be made to you tomorrow.
Kind regards
Laura
My reply:
I am sorry Laura,
it's already too late. The media has already been fed and I can't stop it now. Besides me there are 8 other photographers with the same plight in line hoping to get this truth out to the public as a wake-up call to deter others.
Stealing images from not one but nine photographers in a single edition of the May 2011 Jetstar in-flight magazine is a SERIAL CRIME. It's no more an honest mistake. Ink Global is an international company. You should have known better as a legal counsel.
At this moment, it's no more about compensation. It's the principle to safeguard photographers from such issues in the near future.
We have given you enough time to make amends but you did not comply.
For this I have already wasted so much of my time communicating with my supportive groups which burns up my professional time.
Ink Global will have to face the music for this as you have shown disrespect to the nine photographers from various countries who are being ripped off their images from flickr without their knowledge. The photographers only came to know through Pat Brunet of EventPhotos who started investigating a complaint from a flickr friend of his.
As of now, I will let the officials of the Intellectual Property of Singapore decide how they will address this copyright infringement issue. Expect to see more exposure over the worldwide web. Nothing I can do to stop it now.
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After contacting Ink Global, their Design Director, Peter Stephens hope to get away with just a $100 fee as compensation claiming it was an oversight on their part. Well if every publisher give us the same cheap excuses there will be no more food on the table for photographers eventually.
When I refused their offer they bump it up to $250 and again to $500 like a stock trading. My request was $1500 as penalty for the crime to settle the case in private and they consider that blackmail. Would the judge let you off with just a reprimand if you rob a bank and say sorry only when caught?
To my surprise after Pat from Event Photos investigated deeper into Jetstar in-flight magazine, 8 other photographers from flickr came forward with complaints about their stolen images appearing on the same May 2011 edition. This gets worse. It becomes a serial crime. This is no overlooking matter and definitely not an honest mistake anymore by Ink Global..
I guess they must have done this several times and got away with it. Obviously Ink Global tried to patch things up by paying in small doses. It may work on one or two weaklings but not all. So I was being threatened with legal action should this news leak to the media. What wrong have I done I ask myself. They committed a serial crime and I speak the truth with evidence in hand. Nothing can stop me from feeding honest information to the media.
Ink Global is unaware that Pat has done research and communicated with photographers involved and will be exposing the infringement issues over his blog. This action should create awareness that such stealing activities are coming from bigger corporations.
I am just a small fry who have no budget to engage a lawyer but hopefully the media exposure will hit the perpetrators hardest on their global image. I hope this incident will set an example to deter others from trying to steal images from the internet.
If you think your image appeared in Jetstar in-flight magazine (any edition) without permission, please report it to:
Pat Brunet of Event Photos email: pat@eventphotos.com.au
Please copy this to you friends if you can. Thank you.
Hope all is well.
Cheers
WilliamCho
When vintage meets modern.
It was in 1982 that Bruce West began creating his retro styled vehicles using the chassis of Ford Transit vans as a base.
West would not only design the Asquith logo but he would also create the name and designed all of the earlier creations.
His marketing ploy was to create historic vehicles by using modern chassis with the vehicles being aimed at the commercial and advertising industry.
A 1930’s style taxi cab went into production in 1991 when it was announced that using a purpose built chassis the vehicle would meet the regulations as stipulated by the London Public Carriage Office.
In excess of 1000 vehicles were manufactured by a team of 30 full time employed craftsmen who operated from a workshop in Braintree, Essex.
The export market proved very profitable with vehicles being sold to Germany, Paraguay, Japan and the USA.
But inevitably all good things come to an end and in the 1990’s following the sale of the business to Hunnables the company experienced some bumpy times caused by a blowout in manufacturing costs and the cost of funding the research and development department soon took its toll and the company was forced into receivership.
In 1997 Mike Edgar purchased the company from the liquidators and engaged a team of designers led by Paul Keegan and Eddie Parsons who headed the engineers.
It did not take long for the company to realise that production costs were too great and therefore it was necessary to engage in the construction and development in other countries with Spain and Poland being the eventual third party companies.
Moulds and intellectual property rights were sold in 2003 to Simon Rhodes and Asquith Motors was established to develop newer versions of the original vehicles but due to a variety of differing circumstances the project was shelved and the company ceased to manufacture further vehicles.
One such vehicle to be still in operation is this ice cream van which was operating in Woodbridge, Sussex.
Woodbridge, Sussex, Great Britain.
This design was made after the Rolling Stones logo of John Pasche from 1971, which was probably inspired by the “Day Tripper“ illustration Alan Aldridge did for the Beatles (the illustrated lyrics) in 1969.
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- DES ENFANTS GÂTÉS
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Invention
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After reading the the text on Rossina's latest photo.
I noticed the tag: rosie hardy plagiarism on her photo.
This lead me to this site exposing Rosie Hardy (not RossinaBossioB) of copying other artists work. the jurry is still out on that subject
However all that got me thinking about plagiarism and intellectual property. If you want to know my views on the subject read this post on the flickr discussion about this issue. AKA "Hardygate"
As for my own work I do use a lot of textures and free photos I find on the internet. Its part of my workflow and methodology in creating my imagery. Its important that the collective knowledge on the internet is present in my work. I see it like the modern day collage. I don't clip from magazines, but rather from digital photos floating in cyberspace.
Sometimes I forget to link/credit the original texture on flickr, but I often don't remember where I got it from. I have hundreds of texture files on my computer that I have been collecting for years.
So I felt its time to give more back more to the community that has supported me. From now on I will post more free textures. If you remember or wish, link them back. I would love to see how you use them. Just don't sell my textures, or use them for commercial purposes. I don't consider personal artwork as commercial so you can sell your work if you use my textures.
The We're Here! gang is visiting Intellectual Property Fun today. I'm entering in the "creative or entertaining infringement" category.
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Read the EULA. Tom didn't just want to protect his IP, he wanted to set market price-floors too. The rascal.
This one made an interesting development from idea to completion.
I wanted to take a photo of a classic transparent ("ecotoxic") tungsten lightbulb, while they are still available.
Well apparently they aren't available any more already, but my mom had a few old ones in her basement.
I wanted to shoot it switched on and I wanted to show the socket. Originally it was supposed to be just levitated in some sort of negative space. This was hard enough to realize but while I was doing it I once held my hand below and that was when the "protection of intellectual property" theme came to my mind. Well, so this is where I ended up.
Generation X, born roughly between 1965 and 1980, is often described as the first to arrive in a Western world where cultural revolutions had been widely adopted and where the consumerist model had established itself as an almost unshakeable norm. We grew up surrounded by icons resting on commercial foundations, there was always a price to pay. However, everything was accessible if you could afford it, and everyone was for sale. We navigated a peaceful and economically stable sphere, but one dominated by an almost irreversible logic of consumption. It had become impossible to think outside the box. A few tried it and went mad. It was in this existential chaos that brands established themselves as essential and respectable values. Mickey Mouse was more honored than Jesus. Mickey Mouse didn't come for free, to get access, you needed a certain economic status. Jesus belonged to the poor and therefore to no one. He was cheap, so consequently suspicious. We proved incapable of questioning the system.
Living under copyright laws. The first version was made in 1996 and named Pax Americana, this version, with the title “Living under copyright“, was made in 2004. Title “My Generation“ from 2011. This design is totally lifted from the legend of the foundation of Rome by Romulus and Remus.
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I wrote a pretty long and in-depth post on my blog about it. You can read it here: www.uprootedphotographer.com/post/131974720064/hull-prope...
The gist of it is, this photo was stolen from my website, blown up, altered with text and displayed prominently at the New Bern Mall. Hull Property Group says, "we don't view this as commercial use." And more insultingly, "we Google Image search our photo needs and use images that aren't watermarked."
If you live in a city in the southeastern US that has a mall owned by Hull Property Group, I'd suggest you pop in and see if your work is hanging on the wall.
Lightbulbs showing ideas
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Filed in 2006, while working on Yahoo! Photos; the IP folks thought we had some innovative work, and suggested we move to file a few things. This is a symbolic award given after a successful filing.
My $0.02 is that software IP in this form, IMHO, is contentious at best.
In the silence of the night, under a inky black sky dotted with twinkling diamonds and shooting stars, Santa's eye's suddenly popped open.
Mrs "Love of my Life" Clauuuuuuuuussssssssssss, HELLLLLLPPPPPPPP!!!!!!
From the upstairs window out popped Mrs "Love of my Life" Claus's head. With that piercing shriek that would have done Tiny Tim proud, she wailed, "Santa, what have you done"!!!!
Within a nano-second she was down those stairs, hoisted Santa over her shoulder in a fireman's lift, galloped back up the stairs and had him ensconced in front of the fire with a cup of egg nog warming the cockles of his heart.
Whilst she fussed around Santa, Santa, with teeth chattering said, " Mrs."Love of my Life" Claus I had the worst nightmare. You had gone to the shops, I fell asleep, the wretched workshop went into Party mode, you came back, flung me out of the window and told me NO SEX FOR 6 WEEKS"!!!!!!!!!!!!!
She smiled benignly, patted his hand and said, "you silly goose, it WAS a nightmare. I spoke to Snowman and he told me you slipped on a icy patch, went arse over tit (well he did!!!)and knocked yourself out cold".
Relieved, Santa bent over and whispered into Mrs. "Love of my Life" Claus's ear, "Fancy going to bed............."
We will leave it at that, after all this IS FLICKR, but like all Fairy Stories, it had a happy ending.
PS whilst doing the photoshoot for their Annual Christmas Card, Santa jr was practising the Can Can and his leg went a littttttllllleeeee bit too high, hence the startled expression on his face.
This has been an original craftedfromtheheart story. All rights reserved, no copying of ANY kind allowed. Copyright protected and anything else I could add to protect what goes on in this brain of mine!!!!
PPS I hope everyone had a brill Christmas Day as I certainly did!!
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A dress with large pockets.
The image above features in one of our Facebook Notes: www.facebook.com/notes/archives-new-zealand/pockets-bread...
Title: Design classes 6-14 0002-1850
Archives reference: ABPJ 7720 W5650/1072.
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This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-669
U.S.-CHINA COOPERATION: Bilateral Clean Energy Programs Show Some Results but Should Enhance Their Performance Monitoring
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Hands holding an innovation-- not a typical innovation stock photo.
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Design pattern for a waterproof coat ventilator.
The image above features in one of our Facebook Notes: www.facebook.com/notes/archives-new-zealand/pockets-bread...
Title: Design classes 6-14 0002-1850
Archives reference: ABPJ 7720 W5650/1072.
collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search#/?q=19808050
For more information use our “ask an archivist” link on our website: www.archives.govt.nz
Material from Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga
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Are you confused about copyright? Is it hard to know when it's okay to use someone's work and when it's not? How do you know if you're copying or not? Here is a simple flowchart that helps make sense of the ways that crafters and hobbyists might encounter copyright. Is the item you made actually yours to use? Or is it just a copy?
For more explanation about this graphic, please visit the original article here: thebluebottletree.com/copyright-guidelines-polymer-clay-a...
*Note: Copyright is honored in almost every country of the world, but the specifics of "Fair Use" rules will vary from country to country.
Lightbulb on an Apple wireless keyboard. Isn't the computer a great source of innovation?
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Here's one image I doubt the Mail Online will steal from me.
The 'snap' in question was incorrectly captioned and used without credit in an article by Harry Mount that carried/claimed Associated Newspapers copyright. This by a website that declared a turnover of £30 million and a profit last year!
Copyright Notice fact sheet from UK Copyright Service.
This image is excerpted from a U.S. GAO report:
www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-490
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY: Patent Office Should Define Quality, Reassess Incentives, and Improve Clarity
Note: This represents the number of defendants in suits where there was at least one patent in the given technology area; therefore, suits involving patents from multiple technology areas would be represented in each of these technology areas.
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Took the kids to see this exhibition last week. It really was excellent. I recommend that you allow yourself plenty of time though. We found that three hours flew past and it cost about £25 for the three of us. Better to go in the morning and make a day of it. There is so much to do and see. It's a pity they don't seem to do a year long pass. I'd happily pay for it. Needless to say my kids and this big kid loved it and we might even try and go back this weekend as they're offering workshops with some of Aardman's animators.
I particularly enjoyed the jam splatting workshop and the plasticine forest. Good to se the Wallace and Gromit sets. Buddding stop frame animators will be interested to see the scale and intricate level of detail in the set designs. Great contraptions and interesting information on intellectual property issues too.
Highly recommended!
From the GSC website:
Wallace and Gromit present...A World of Cracking Ideas
We are proud to announce that we have secured the first opportunity outside London to host “Wallace and Gromit present . . . A World Cracking Ideas”. This is a fabulous interactive exhibition stuffed full of crazy innovation, some amazing examples of ideas that have gone from a twinkle in someone's eye to reality and a huge range of activites, fun and games which stimulate your creative juices. (Oh and, of course Wallace and Gromit!)
"Wallace and Gromit present... A World of Cracking Ideas" is sponsored by the Intellectual Property Office, presented by Aardman Animations and produced by SGA.
The exhibition will be here from April 2nd until November 30th 2010.
My selfie was taken with my iphone 5 camera, taken on December 19, 2014 and posted on Flickr
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as far as I know, this one is FACTUALLY INCORRECT. so, you know, you probs don't want to use it anywhere. But it's a pretty picture so I'm leaving it here anyway.
About a year ago I was surprised when I saw an image of my son in an ad for a shop called "Vinderen Elektriske", selling electronics.
I immediately contacted the editor of the magazine in question, "Vinderen Magasinet". She directed me to the advertiser and the designer behind the ad. I contacted the designer. She had found the image "on the internet" and reacted like I was rude and angry without any reason when I told her that she couldn't use the image without my permission. I was obviously talking to a professional designer with absolutely no knowledge of intellectual property laws.
The use of my image is a very clear violation of several paragraphs in those laws. Both because I own the rights to the image and because they need permission from the easily recognizable person in the image.
So I called the manager of the shop responsible for the ad. He was not very friendly either and simply directed me to their lawyer. Probably in hope of me simply forgetting about it because I didn't want to fight their lawyer.
Unfortunately for them this simply pissed me off. Seriously. I am not too difficult when it comes to people wanting to use my images. An apology and a suggestion for some kind of compensation would have been okay. But now I just went from a minor irritation to pure anger.
Fortunately I am pretty well connected and a couple of emails later I am in contact with the utterly talented Mr. Halvor Manshaus. You know, Jon Lech Johansen aka DVD-Jon's lawyer. A lawyer you don't want on your neck when discussing digital rights.
But he's not cheap. Not even after a couple of beer and a very interesting discussion about technology and new media... And with this incident I don't know if I'll get any kind of economic compensation in the end, so I have to put aside thousands of dollars and prepare to cover the expenses if I loose.
Most people would probably just give up. That's why this story is important.
Some weeks later I am fortunate enough to meet Mr. Jon Bing at a conference where we both where speaking. Jon Bing is a Norwegian writer and law professor at the Norwegian Research Center for Computers and Law. I tell him about the case. He tells me that the economic compensations people get in cases like these very often are pretty low. But he also says that the case is somewhat important and that I should go through with it to state an example. I should do my duty.
Okay. This would cost me time and money, but I'm pissed, the professor tells me I should do it and Halvor Manshaus is at my service.
I instruct Mr. Manshaus to go on and send a proposal to the lawyer that Vinderen Elektriske was using. He proposes a compensation of about $8000 and make it clear that they have violated Norwegian law of intellectual property. He also asks for documentation on exactly where they used the image.
After a while they reply that this is out of proportions and that they won't pay more than something like $1000,- No apology and no documentation on the usage.
I don't accept this. Mr. Manshaus sends another letter. This time with even more references to Norwegian law and a statement about the fact that I am willing to go on and charge them for violation of intellectual property law.
They fail to answer on time and we need to send a reminder with yet another letter. In the next letter they propose something close to $4000,- as long as I prove that it's my son in the image(!) That's not very difficult to prove. Because I don't have the time and money to push this further I accept the $4000,- It's enough to cover my expenses and leave some dollars that I will put away for my son.
Still, Vinderen Elektriske never gave me proper documentation on where they used the image. They never gave me any form of apology.
But at least it states an example. And I hope the designer now have learned that she can't just use whatever she finds through Google Images and I hope Vinderen Elektriske are more careful the next time they put together an ad.
And there is another important lesson to be learned here. The one about communication and marketing. In about 20 seconds the owner of Vinderen Elektriske could have avoided:
- $4000,- in compensation to me
- Expenses for his own lawyer
- Bad publicity
How? Instead of answering
"We found the image on the internet. Talk to our lawyer"
He could have said something like
"Oh. I'm so sorry. Our designer must have made a mistake. We really liked your image. How can we fix this? Of course you should have some kind of compensation. Maybe you would give our shop a visit and pick a Nintendo Wii and some games for your son?"
Unfortunately they selected the other option. Pissing me off. Making sure I now hate Vinderen Elektriske. Making sure my family, most of my readers and huge amounts of people around the different forums where this story has been shared also hate them.
Fools.
Took the kids to see this exhibition last week. It really was excellent. I recommend that you allow yourself plenty of time though. We found that three hours flew past and it cost about £25 for the three of us. Better to go in the morning and make a day of it. There is so much to do and see. It's a pity they don't seem to do a year long pass. I'd happily pay for it. Needless to say my kids and this big kid loved it and we might even try and go back this weekend as they're offering workshops with some of Aardman's animators.
I particularly enjoyed the jam splatting workshop and the plasticine forest. Good to se the Wallace and Gromit sets. Buddding stop frame animators will be interested to see the scale and intricate level of detail in the set designs. Great contraptions and interesting information on intellectual property issues too.
Highly recommended!
From the GSC website:
Wallace and Gromit present...A World of Cracking Ideas
We are proud to announce that we have secured the first opportunity outside London to host “Wallace and Gromit present . . . A World Cracking Ideas”. This is a fabulous interactive exhibition stuffed full of crazy innovation, some amazing examples of ideas that have gone from a twinkle in someone's eye to reality and a huge range of activites, fun and games which stimulate your creative juices. (Oh and, of course Wallace and Gromit!)
"Wallace and Gromit present... A World of Cracking Ideas" is sponsored by the Intellectual Property Office, presented by Aardman Animations and produced by SGA.
The exhibition will be here from April 2nd until November 30th 2010.