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• 10.04.07
  They stole an image of my son and just had to pay $4000 copyright, digital rights, law, photography | (138)

  Edit: I seems like I've done a bad job selecting words for my headline. Some people think that I am complaining because I "just" got $4000. I'm not complaining. It's a not-so-successful formulation to say that this happened recently. Or like one of the commenters over at Reddit said: "I assume that "just" refers to time. Meaning they only now, a short while ago, had to pay $4000." 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, ...
• 07.09.07
  5½ lessons that legitimate retailers can learn from pirates DRM, law, piracy, rights | (3)

  Sadly, the story about how Bob the Millionaire Became a pirate is still highly relevant. And not long ago Mark Pilgrim had an article out that describes a couple of lessons that the professional part of the industry could learn from the pirates. Well worth a read. A story to show the problem If you have two shops down the street. One sell illegal copies of movies and one sell legal originals. The shop with the illegal copies work like this: you go inside, find what you want, have a look at it, pay and go home. At home you play the movie ...
• 12.20.06
  Stealing an image of a kid Photo, blogging, law | (26)

  Apparently I nearly killed a reader through pure boredom with my last post, so I hope this stuff is slightly more interesting. A couple of weeks ago my father-in-law calls me wondering if I have started selling pictures of his grandchildren to commercials. He is talking about a picture of his grandson listening to an iPod. Used in an advertisement in a magazine he just received. I haven't sold any pictures of my son to commercials, so I was quite interested in this. As you can see from the picture that I have inserted above, my father-in-law had reason to believe that ...
• 06.16.06
  The power of citizen journalism blogging, law | (8)

  The internet gives everyone with a connection a powerful distribution channel. A potential to reach millions of people. 90% of the stuff out there reach a very small audience, but some of it reach out bigtime. Two quick stories. 1. The customer representative from hell Vincent Ferrari knew that AOL was known for trying to talk people out of their desicion to cancel their account. When he wanted to cancel an old account he recorded the conversation and posted an article on his blog. The story reach hundreds of thousands of people. Now the customer representative from AOL just got fired. You can see an ...
• 04.21.06
  Stupid artist families and stupid astronomers Apple, Daily ramblings, Google, law, miro, sagan | (0)

  Thomas Hawk has an excellent comment on the fact that Joan Miro's family just sued Google because they incorporated parts of his art in their logo on his birthday: "So let's get this right. Google chooses to create a special logo to honor the art and memory of Miro and his birth in 1893 and his family wants to get all pissy about it?" I hope Miro turns in his grave in disgrace of his own family. This is just ridiculous. It reminds me of the story from 1994 when Apple used the code name Sagan for their new PowerMac under construction. The ...
• 12.01.05
  You would never ever steal anything here Daily ramblings, law, marketing | (1)

  A coworker just joined a friend that bought himself a new set of tires for his car. He used a legendary and low priced dealer in Oslo. It is run by some extremely efficient and clever people looking like they divide their time 50% doing work for the shop and 50% lifting weights at the gym. Not the kind of people you would mess with. At the entrance of the shop they have put up a sign that is kind of interesting here in heavily regulated and streamlined Norway. It says: "Theft will not be reported. It will be punished." Fantastic. This is ...
• 09.21.05
  Make war, not love! Daily ramblings, law | (6)

  It's old news, but a mod for "Grand Theft Auto - San Andreas" expands the game with some extra functionallity that actually lets the character you are playing make love. The game in it's original state lets your character kill people, deal drugs, steal cars, shoot, knock people out etc.. For the americans, the original functionallity is OK. The game had a rating of "M" (Mature), that means suitable for people of 17 or older. The odd thing is that the so called "hotcoffee" mod that added the functionallity for making love made the americans go completely mad. They are taking ...
• 07.01.05
  Herkko Heitanen and Lehtovaara - the story continues internet, law | (0)

  I added the search phrase "Lehtovaara" to Trendmapper the day this case was featured on BoingBoing. The charts for Google, MSN Search and Yahoo all goes up. And what do you think? On Google the search for Lehtovaara got around 19 000 hits on June 27. Now it gets around 27 000 hits. Do you think the extra 8 000 hits are about the good service and nice food at Lehtovaara? The case is all over the internet and the bullying owner is doing interviews revealing that he don't know anything about blogging. It's back on BoingBoing and people are ...
• 06.28.05
  Banned video on Google Google, Media, Technology, law | (0)

  I recently posted some thoughts on the fact that Google Video just released their own video plugin. So of course I had to download it and try it out. My first impression: - At this point only available for windows - Easy to install - Very basic functionallity: a) The videos play directly in the browser b) You can click the video for fullscreen Huge amounts of the videos are not available for playback yet. I guess it is due to the non existent payment system. However, as mentioned in my previous article I do not think that this is going to be a success before Google adds ...
• 06.26.05
  Legal threats and the internet Food, blogging, internet, law | (2)

  And the price for the most stupid legal threat goes to restaurant Lehtovaara in Helsinki. Herkko Hietanen is a lawyer specialized within IT-law. He had a very bad experience at the Lehtovaara and posted a letter to the restaurant after the unlucky visit. They did not answer, so Herkko posted the letter on his blog. A while later this letter is hit number two on Google if you do a search for the restaurant. So, the owner of the restaurant sends Herkko a legal threat demanding (among other things) that he should remove the letter from the web and pay him ...

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