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Corbis Sues Amazon for Copyright Infringement

Posted by timothy on from the once-is-understandable dept.

Gedvondur writes "The story ran in the WSJ today, that the Gates-owned image company, Corbis, is suing Amazon.com for copyright violations (PDF link). Apparently the suit was without warning to Amazon. Amazon will use the DMCA to defend itself. Link goes to copy of the WSJ article on Corbis's site."

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  1. Do you think.. by mikeophile · · Score: 4, Funny

    that Corbis got permission from the Wall Street Journal to scan and redistribute it's copy as a pdf?

    1. Re:Do you think.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's only okay if the type on the copy is totally illegible.

    2. Re:Do you think.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      So, mp3s are okay if they sound crappy?

  2. Amazons defending themselves by darnok · · Score: 4, Funny

    > Amazon will use the DMCA to defend itself.

    Why does this give me a mental picture of a giant, half-naked female warrior beating off hordes of bad guys, armed only with a rolled up piece of paper?

    Gotta get out more...

    1. Re:Amazons defending themselves by divide+overflow · · Score: 4, Funny

      > Why does this give me a mental picture of a giant, half-naked female warrior beating off hordes of bad guys, armed only with a rolled up piece of paper?

      I bet you go to every Star Trek convention.

    2. Re:Amazons defending themselves by Captain+Large+Face · · Score: 2, Funny
      half-naked female ... beating off hordes of ... guys

      Sounds more like a sex industry convention. But then perhaps Star Trek has changed -- I haven't really watched any of the new series...

  3. Re:First PDF Sucks Post by pVoid · · Score: 4, Funny
    Not only that, it's just a friggin image (why use PDF?) of a *scanned* newspaper.

    Only thing better would be if the news paper had an image of a computer screen with browser viewing the pictures in it...

    uhh wait a min...

  4. Re:Amazon uses DMCA to defends itself by I+Want+GNU! · · Score: 4, Funny

    No, this is a Swiss Army knife. Please cease and desist advertising the DMCA as a Swiss Army knife immediately or we will use the DMCA against you in court.

    --Swiss Army Brands, Inc.

  5. Re:PDF?? by yintercept · · Score: 4, Funny
    the piece is being carried by just about everyone.
    Looks to me like we have some serious copyright violations going on with this article. I hope the Wall Street Journal wipes the floor with that crappy in scanned article put up by Corbis and distributed to tens of thousands of slashdotters without giving the venerable WSJ a chance to earn ad revenues for their hard work.

    Take it to court!!!! I say.
  6. obviously innocent by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Amazon is obviously innocent. While Corbis claims that they are a "professional stock photo agency", that's clearly not possible: no company that puts out a crappy scan of a copyrighted story in the WSJ as a "press release" could possibly either know anything about copyrights or digital imaging. They must be some sort of impostors. Whereever those Meg Ryan photos came from, they can't have come from Corbis.

  7. Gates vs. Bezos by mikeophile · · Score: 4, Funny
    I just can't decide who I want to see lose more.

    It's like putting Hilary Rosen and Ann Coultier into a spiked cage and fretting over who won't emerge.

    I guess we all win this time.

    1. Re:Gates vs. Bezos by divide+overflow · · Score: 4, Funny

      It's like putting Hilary Rosen and Ann Coultier into a spiked cage and fretting over who won't emerge.

      No, it's like putting Hilary Rosen and Ann Coulter into a spiked cage and fretting that one might emerge.

  8. Here is the suit: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Corbis attacks with IP violation suit.
    Amazon strikes with DCMA +0.
    Corbis resists !
    Amazon conjures rapid laywers.
    Corbis conjures Bill Gates.
    Amazon conjures David Boies.
    Bill Gates attacks with incompatible IE +6.
    David Boies strikes with countersuit.
    Countersuit misfires !
    Judge drops dead laughing !
    Bill Gates integrates IE into Windows.
    Corbis conjures more laywers.
    Amazon casts press release at Bill Gates.
    Bill Gates resists !
    David Boies casts Chebacca defense.
    Chebacca defense misfires !
    Amazon loses !Judge orders Amazon to pay 10000000 $ !

  9. Equitable settlement by Mostly+a+lurker · · Score: 2, Funny

    Perhaps this will be settled by an agreement that Microsoft can use buttons in their applications without paying license fees to Amazon.

  10. Re:Jesus Christ by questamor · · Score: 4, Funny

    It sounds more like an RPG... or perhaps pokémon.

    Corbismon I choose you! use your Copyright Violation weapon!

    Oh no!

    Amazonchu is countering with their DMCA beam!

    gaaaaah

  11. This is not copyright infringement. by commodoresloat · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're just sharing the article with people so they can sample it, see if this article makes them curious enough to buy the whole paper.

  12. Re:First PDF Sucks Post by Mooncaller · · Score: 2, Funny

    What do expect from an image processing company owned by Bill Gates!

  13. It's Linus's doing.. by AstroSmith · · Score: 2, Funny

    Using the Homeland Security tool "Deep Scan" we have uncovered proprietary bits of SCO code in the WSJ scan.

    Make that 10 Billion in small bills...

  14. Re:PDF?? by kaltkalt · · Score: 2, Funny

    and I didn't even have to give away my personal information for marketing purposes in order to read the article. Isn't that a breach of some 'social contract' or something? hehe

    --

    Stupid people make stupid things profitable.