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Re: Sony Pirates KDE Artwork

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Post by bruceboughton »

networked wrote: post #7
manmal wrote: post #6

That's a serious case of Google-Image-Searchitis. My theory: somebody googled for "settings icon", swore to himself to get proper artwork later, forgot, and there we have it. (Yes, I'm guilty of that too, but I usually don't forget)

Which is why we need a consistent way to embed license data into media. Not as "enforceable" DRM but as metadata that is preserved by image editing software and can be checked automatically when you are about to send your creation to production. EXIF theoretically allows for this but it is hardly ever used.

So EXIF allows this but is hardly ever used.

Sounds like this is a people problem, not a technical problem.

Re: Sony Pirates KDE Artwork

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Post by Argorak »

viseztrance wrote: post #4

Honest question. Did the author even attempted to contact Sony or anyone in the KDE organization to resolve this issue?

Honest question: did Sony ever attempt to contact anyone before installing rootkits on their machines or suing them for copyright infringement through proxy? They didn't even contact me quickly when my PSN account with CC info and everything was compromised.

While it might be good style, contacting a copyright violator before making things public is not at all a must. Sony is not exactly known for communicating well, so it might not have been worth the effort.

Re: Sony Pirates KDE Artwork

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

speeder wrote: post #2

I like Sony, but some stuff they did in the past was highly questionable and may come back to haunt them, specially when some random artist at them use someone else artwork. The best thing Sony can do is fix this, say sorry, and punish the guy that did this. But.I have a hunch that they won't do that.

>and punish the guy that did this //

Couldn't they just add LGPL3 to the website and acknowledge the work of those who helped [albeit in this case in a small way] create their website unpaid?

Re: Sony Pirates KDE Artwork

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Post by guruz »

viseztrance wrote: post #4

Honest question. Did the author even attempted to contact Sony or anyone in the KDE organization to resolve this issue?

I think what the author did is the better solution.

Big corporations must learn that they can't treat their users badly but disrespect the laws themselves without getting into PR trouble.

Re: Sony Pirates KDE Artwork

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Post by Zealot »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #15
speeder wrote: post #2

I like Sony, but some stuff they did in the past was highly questionable and may come back to haunt them, specially when some random artist at them use someone else artwork. The best thing Sony can do is fix this, say sorry, and punish the guy that did this. But.I have a hunch that they won't do that.

> and punish the guy that did this // Couldn't they just add LGPL3 to the website and acknowledge the work of those who helped [albeit in this case in a small way] create their website unpaid?

It's also in their UEFI settings. I've seen it with my own eyes.

Re: Sony Pirates KDE Artwork

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Post by networked »

bruceboughton wrote: post #11
networked wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is why we need a consistent way to embed license data into media. Not as "enforceable" DRM but as metadata that is preserved by image editing software and can be checked automatically when you are about to send your creation to production. EXIF theoretically allows for this but it is hardly ever used.

So EXIF allows this but is hardly ever used. Sounds like this is a people problem, not a technical problem.

It's both (which is to say, it's about HCI). People would be more eager to use whatever license embedding mechanism we agreed upon if it was as easy as right click -> "License as..." -> "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0". That is not the case right now.
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