Comments on: Lane Hartwell update: Still wrong

By: Trying to Be like Bill Gates » It’s Time To Wean Ourselves Off An Unhealthy Addiction To Copyright

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 16:57:46 +0000

[...] in the video, and now she’s upset that it’s not in the new video. She’s in the wrong here for a variety of reasons. She misused the DMCA and now she’s demanding payment over what [...]

By: El Mike’s Internet News Blog » Blog Archive » It’s Time To Wean Ourselves Off An Unhealthy Addiction To Copyright

Fri, 21 Dec 2007 04:06:28 +0000

[...] in the video, and now she’s upset that it’s not in the new video. She’s in the wrong here for a variety of reasons. She misused the DMCA and now she’s demanding payment over what [...]

By: TechCrunch gets it right on Hartwell - - mathewingram.com/work

TechCrunch gets it right on Hartwell - - mathewingram.com/work — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:58:05 +0000

[...] to spark — for better or worse — with this post, which got almost 100 comments, and a more recent [...]

By: odd time signatures » Blog Archive » The Great Image Reuse Debate

odd time signatures » Blog Archive » The Great Image Reuse Debate — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:21:02 +0000

[...] than recap the issues, I suggest reading Shelley Powers’ and Mathew Ingram’s thoughts on the issue. It’s also worth reading the players’ posts — Here is the [...]

By: leigh

leigh — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:17:42 +0000

My partner Peter and I had a big yak about this last night. Peter made an interesting point about America vs. Canada which I think is partially at the heart of why I'm finding this conversation so frustrating. Pamela Wallin had been at Ideas City a couple years back and talked about the biggest difference she found between Canada and US (as the Canadian Ambassador positioned in NYC) – The litigious nature of American Culture. It is after all the place where a man jumped in front of a subway car to commit suicide, survived and then successfully sued the city of NY.

Many people have made the suggestions before but I'll add them again. If you don't want your photos used by anyone...

- don't put them on Flickr or any other photo site without privacy settings
- put a water mark on the photos which would essentially stops anyone from using them
- go complain to Google for having an image search (who unlike flickr doesn't have a filter for searching only those photos under creative commons)

It's not just big business that needs to re look at the way they do business, it's independents like Lane as well. Using the law as a big stick to ensure ‘business as usual’, will only as Zota says, end up actually hurting rather than protecting artists in the long run.

I hope that Lane reconsiders her decision to sue and look at the greater issues beyond what she feels is this current injustice. There is a bigger picture out there and since Lane could have done a great deal more herself to protect her photos, she should take some responsibility and move on......