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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by mattnewton on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @02:18PM (#18602770)
Can confirm at least that it can be done better than this. I used to work at Apple and you better believe they cared about details like this all the way up the chain. Every photo we used had to come from a marketing-blessed source, all modifications were auditable in source control, and the end result was blessed again by marketing.
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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by DenisM on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @07:23PM (#18604753)
Despite that Apple shipped a watch face in iOS 6 that was ripped from Mondaine:

https://www.cnet.com/news/apple-accused-of-ripping-off-famou...

This crap can happen to anyone, it's how they handle it what matters most. Apple apologized (and paid for it).

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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by tptacek on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @11:25PM (#18605678)
Using a trademarked design doesn't misrepresent the capabilities of the device. Using a DSLR photo in promotional material about a phone camera obviously does. The two incidents are not comparable.
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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by DenisM on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @11:53AM (#18610018)
Both cases are due to lack diligence and supervision in the media assets accusation.
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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by tptacek on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @01:06PM (#18610770)
No, Samsung legitimately acquired the IPR for their promotional material, but used it to lie to consumers; Apple failed to secure rights to a watch face, but did nothing to mislead anyone. The two cases aren’t comparable, other than “both cases represent mistakes”.
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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by scarejunba on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @02:53PM (#18603058)
What source control software did you use for the pictures?
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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by mattnewton on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @05:06PM (#18604009)
It varied by department. I am sure there were better options, but we just used SVN because it (mostly) worked and the folder model / shallow checkouts made it easy to explain to nontechnical people.
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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by paranoidrobot on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @06:10PM (#18604353)
Adobe has/had a version control software for their products.

i.e you could check out a version of a Photoshop file, make some changes, commit it back. My understanding was the it was aware of layers/etc, so you could diff changes somehow.

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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by paulmd on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @03:15PM (#18603231)
you could probably version-control a lightroom catalog file... it's binary but you can still check in a binary file.
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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by aaronbrethorst on Wednesday December 05, 2018 @01:50AM (#18606190)
Sidebar: Lightroom catalogs are simply sqlite3 databases with a different file suffix. If you ever have corruption issues with them, you can open them up in sqlite3 and export or repair as you see fit.
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Re:Samsung used my DSLR photo to fake their phone’s “portrai... by stefs on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @03:17PM (#18603248)
iGit
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