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Developer Exposes Copyright Infringers On Twitter

Posted by kdawson on from the better-than-paying-lawyers dept.

snitty writes "Wil Shipley, developer of Delicious Library, found some applications on the iTunes App Store that were using without permission some images from his popular desktop application. He outed them on Twitter. The team at Technically Legal broke down the story and the take-home messages for using other people's images."

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  1. Re:The Image by garcia · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Why didn't he just email them and ask them either not to use his pictures, or to pay him for them?

    Because sometimes even when you do both of those things, you get nowhere fast. Twitter is something that a lot of people utilize and it's a good way to go about expressing your frustration and getting the word out to a lot of people (including the offender) quickly.

  2. Priorities by Rocketship+Underpant · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wish he'd spend less time Twittering and blogging and more time fixing the bugs in Delicious Library 2 that have been there since the beta. There's like, what, one update a year for that application? I don't even bother running it any more.

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