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I actually was sued over this exact thing and lost (and paid quite a bit of money). All for a little UI experiment that nobody saw but me, google and (via googl
by growt 6y ago
I actually was sued over this exact thing and lost (and paid quite a bit of money). All for a little UI experiment that nobody saw but me, google and (via google image search) these vultures.
- zucker42 6y agoWow really, that's a pretty big problem. Which country?
- growt 6y agoGermany
- draugadrotten 6y agoSo you were copying somebody else's work for free, without even giving them the attribution they ask for as- and THEY are the vultures?
- growt 6y agoRead the grand parent comment for the practice I was referring to. Or are you just trolling?
- dang 6y agoPlease do not break the site guidelines yourself, regardless of how bad another comment was. It only makes things even worse. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- growt 6y agoSorry for breaking the snarky-rule. I guess I'm still too touchy about that issue. Also: Big thank you to you and the other mods for keeping this place civil!
- dang 6y agoPlease do not post in the flamewar style to HN. It's against everything we're trying for here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- yesenadam 6y agoPlease consider writing up the story and submitting as an HN post, that sounds horrific. Thanks.
- growt 6y agoI don't know if my writeup would add something new. It's actually a known practice here in germany (as I discovered after the fact). Here is a good article about it (in german and not the same photographer as in my case): https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Wikipedia-beraet-ueber-Distanzierung-von-Fotolizenz-Abzockern-3630842.html?seite=all https://www.heise.de/tp/features/Wikipedia-beraet-ueber-Dist...