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FlickrDown: Great Utility or Threat to Intellectual Property?

by Tris Hussey on October 28, 2008 · 3 comments

in Internet Life, Photography, Social Media

I caught from Brian Solis—FlickrDown Pulls Pictures from the Cloud to Your PC — bub.blicio.us—and DownloadSquad—posts about FlickrDown and thought, wow that sounds cool until I read this comment on Brian’s post:
Brian, it appears this program allows the download of images even when the photographer does not allow downloads. It also strips the metadata from the photo, which is copyright violation.
So if you want to use if your own images, that’s one thing, but to use it for anyone else, without their permission, is theft.

Umm, whoops. I don’t blame [...]

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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and an apple and apple.

by Tris Hussey on October 10, 2008 · 1 comment

in Internet Life

There is a lot of heat and interest around a small Victoria business and technology school and their battle with Apple over the school’s logo.
I’m going to skip the expected comparisons between the two logos and go with their window as the point here:

Looking at this sign quickly, and I have since I used to live close to there and have been in that plaza several times, I thought it was a computer store that sold Macs. I figured with the apple and the software logos that it wasn’t [...]

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