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Re:Oyster is shutting down on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @09:27AM (#10258390)
Which makes it even more crazy that after the employee pays taxes, the take home only about 70% of that.
Re:Google purges bad extensions from Chrome on Wednesday April 08, 2015 @09:08AM (#9340459)
Does anyone know where one could find a list of offending plugins? I tried, but came up empty handed.
Re:SWEATSHOP – I can´t take any more on Tuesday February 03, 2015 @08:34AM (#8990194)
And where exactly do you think the fabric would come from?
Re:'YOUTUBE is EVIL': Somebody had a tape running, Google on Thursday January 29, 2015 @08:43AM (#8966013)
My friends and I tend to always go to Soundcloud first.
I was not expecting Lincoln, Nebraska to have 59 pages of wind surfing equipment.
Re:Devicons, an iconic font made for developers on Friday July 18, 2014 @09:23AM (#8052849)
Actually you can style SVG with CSS

    #yourSVG {
        fill: red;
        stroke: blue;
    }
Re:Houston, We Have A Public Domain Problem on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @08:51AM (#7943560)
Unfortunately, "the possibility that they might have been commissioned to produce an original" has nothing to do with it.

Take the case of Shepard Fairey's use of the AP's photograph of Obama. The iconic "Hope" poster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama_%22Hope%22_poster

Now that photographer certainly never would have been paid or even heard of had the photo been used as inspiration. Yet, Fairey lost that case in Federal Court.

People are prevented from using a photograph of someones face to remix into a vectorized, colorized, cartoonized version of this face. A photo that would have died a quiet death as a newsroom archive. It is my opinion that Fairey's usage did nothing but add to our collective culture and that preventing use like this in the future is quite chilling for creatives of many fields. (For more on this topic, written much more eloquently see: http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/)

What happens when a company does a 3D scan of Briteny Spears and produces a model of every muscle movement possible, and then claims copyright over every single photograph and drawing of Ms. Spears that every gets produces hereafter? We already see a similar tactic being used with patent trolls, "patent everything, sue everyone."

Re:Houston, We Have A Public Domain Problem on Wednesday June 25, 2014 @08:31AM (#7943481)
The problem with this is that when EMI or some other record giant is the one being abusive and submitting bogus claims, Youtube/SC/et all will not start ignoring notices because they will be afraid that the label will pull their catalog.
Re:Why are all app screenshots taken on Mac/Safari? on Tuesday September 10, 2013 @10:07AM (#6360072)
I think the percentage of photographers using macs is > 10%.