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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. The Image by FornaxChemica · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The copyrighted image is actually the "woodgrain background", quoting Technically Legal. Is this a joke? The whole story is about a background texture being stolen? Some actual artists out there who've been ripped off must be feel pretty distressed right now.

    1. Re:The Image by WarwickRyan · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Bingo.

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

      Seems to me like the real reason for him being angry is that the iPhone application he's complaining about looks to be basically an iPhone version of his desktop application. Someone beat him to it on the iPhone and he's mad..

  2. Re:He's complaining about... by diamondsw · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Delicious Library is one of the most popular Mac shareware apps, and is exceptionally well-designed. Those wood bookcases are central to its UI look and feel. And he's already written an iPhone app - except Amazon decided to yank all mobile licenses to their data. Yes, that's right, he pays Amazon for access to their data, so it is legal use and paid for.

    So your entire post is written like a true asshat who has no idea what's going on, and has contributed nothing. But that never stops Slashdot.

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