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• On the post: Yes, Apple, You Have To Tell The UK Public That Samsung Didn't Copy You

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 19 Oct, 2012 @ 03:04am

  Well, the effect of this ruling could be that Apple is now forced to tell the World (okay, just the UK) that Samsung did NOT copy them. Such a confession might have some additional effects on similar cases world-wide and possibly even help with the case in the USA, which Apple won.
  In the USA, Samsung could now present this advertisement/confession from Apple and turn that ruling around...
  Of course, not just in the USA. It could happen everywhere, where Apple sued Samsung over the design. Apple is forced to confes they've been wrong. Such a confession can be very valuable, when other courts recognize it as such.

• On the post: French Court Detaches Itself From Reality, Demands Tabloid Turn Over 'Original' Topless Kate Middleton Photos

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 19 Sep, 2012 @ 02:19pm

  Copyright...

  Actually, transferring the "original pictures" does make a lot of sense, since it would also transfer any copyrights on those images. With the originals now owned by the Royal family, they can stop any other usage of those images with an infringement claim...
  
  Too bad the magazine wasn't the owner, and thus could not transfer the original license, just the license of what they've done to those images. Basically, they just got a license from the original photographer to create a derived work (which was already published) and then stop any further publishing of this derived work.
  
  It's not a matter of owning the negatives or whatever. It's about owning the rights on those images.

• On the post: This T-Shirt Has Been Seized

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2012 @ 11:23am

  Just a reminder...

  Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

• On the post: Announcing The New Techdirt Insider Shop

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2012 @ 11:19am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Did purchase another year of insider, though. :-)

• On the post: Announcing The New Techdirt Insider Shop

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2012 @ 11:18am

  Re: Re: Re: Re:

  You won't sell much when the "Buy" button is disabled.
  
  Also, I've noticed another problem. I wanted to order a t-shirt for a friend of mine which costs $29.00 but shipping costs to the Netherlands adds another $47.95 to the price. Wow! With such expensive shipping costs, you won't sell much merchandise outside the USA.
  Cancelling that order again... Way too expensive! :-)
  
  Please keep in mind that Techdirt has plenty of international visitors. Maybe you should find a way to cut those costs?

• On the post: Announcing The New Techdirt Insider Shop

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2012 @ 04:06am

  Re: Re:

  Well, I use Google Chrome, latest version. And I'm an insider as you can see by my icon.
  What I can see is this screenshot on my website which doesn't seem to contain any option to actually purchase anything.
  
  Maybe it's because I'm not in the USA?

• On the post: Germany Tells Facebook To Destroy Face Recognition Database

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2012 @ 02:37am

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  I prefer to turn on these kinds of things, not turn off these things. If Facebook would have used an opt-in option then they'd never have this problem. Then again, no one would use it either...
  
  The biggest drawback of Facebook isn't what I decide to put online about me. It's what others put online about me.

• On the post: Announcing The New Techdirt Insider Shop

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2012 @ 01:07am

  Looks great! I wanted to buy a bunch of stuff. So, I used Chrome to visit the shop, selected the first item and then started to search for a buy or purchase button...
  
  Five hours later, I've still not found it! So I guess you're not really want to sell stuff. :-)

• On the post: Germany Tells Facebook To Destroy Face Recognition Database

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 17 Aug, 2012 @ 12:58am

  German laws are becoming less real every day. Okay, I don't like facial recognition in facebook either, since it allows people to follow me on pictures taken by others, where I've been tagged. It could one day even result in some freak who takes a picture of my face on the street to use that picture to track my own facebook profile and all information that I share, plus what others share about me.
  If this technique continues then I could end up with a bunch of stalkers who find out who I am, where I live, where I work, simply by taking a picture of me.
  
  But having to destroy that database? That's over the top. It should stay, but each facebook member must give permission first before she can be tagged. (Yes, opt-in instead of opt-out.)

• On the post: Charles Carreon Keeps Digging: Promises To Subpoena Twitter & Ars Technica To Track Down Parody Account

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 22 Jun, 2012 @ 05:46am

  Carreon will just carre on this case, so it seems. ;-)

• On the post: Anti-Piracy Group Caught Pirating Song For Anti-Piracy Ad… Corruption Scandal Erupts In Response

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2011 @ 01:45pm

  Re: Re:

  Actually, he's getting 1.3 million for a single tune that's heard in the anti-piracy jingle on each and every DVD published by the Dutch market. It's a few seconds long, probably less than a minute and the narrator talking through the jingle isn't part of the song.
  And no, not Dutch movies, but any movie that's sold after 2007, possibly all over the world too. As long as it has been produced in the Netherlands. It's been proven that his music was used in at least the anti-piracy spots of over 77 DVD's but more likely even more songs.
  
  Rietveld has his own website at http://www.mbrproducties.nl/ where he explains (in Dutch, sorry) what's exactly going on.

• On the post: Anti-Piracy Group Caught Pirating Song For Anti-Piracy Ad… Corruption Scandal Erupts In Response

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2011 @ 08:24am

  Re: Re: He didn't resign

  Maybe, then again, I live there. Corrupt politicians, board members and other top people seem to be supporting each other a lot so he won't disappear. He'll probably end up with a different job somewhere else. He'll have to stay low for a few years but then this will probably forgotten ot some other board member will be exposed.
  Problem is, no one knows if what he did breaks the law. If it didn't then people will soon forget again and he'll be back. Besides, he has his own company and plenty of financial resources and at times of a financial crisis he'll will be welcome everywhere...
  No matter how corrupt he is.

• On the post: Anti-Piracy Group Caught Pirating Song For Anti-Piracy Ad… Corruption Scandal Erupts In Response

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2011 @ 08:00am

  He didn't resign

  Jochem Gerrits didn't really resign but stepped down for the duration of some internal investigations before he'll be allowed to return to his old position again. Basically, they're just waiting for the news story to blow over and then they can continue to enrich themselves.

• On the post: Press Goes Nuts Over Bieber Baby, But Ignores Bieber's Concerns With Regulating The Internet

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2011 @ 12:12pm

  Re: Re: Justin Bieber's love Child is more important!

  At first I wondered how that woman had gotten pregnant anyways. Lesbians can't become pregnant from each other! :-)
  But now I realise that Justin is secretly a boy. Well, that's a great hidden secret. :-)

• On the post: Press Goes Nuts Over Bieber Baby, But Ignores Bieber's Concerns With Regulating The Internet

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 05 Nov, 2011 @ 06:23am

  Justin Bieber's love Child is more important!

  To be honest, I'm not a citizen of the USA. I don't even want to visit the USA during holidays. I'm from the Netherlands so US legislation is mindnumbingly boring to me. And it's unlikely to have any effects on me. But if some woman has the love child of Justin Bieber then I want to know every detail of this whole story! So, please tell us more about little Bieb... :-)

• On the post: Article About 'The Menace Of The Software Pirates' From 1985

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 12 Sep, 2011 @ 01:08pm

  Love the penguin in the top of the article. :-)

• On the post: Sex, Drugs… And Facebook? Moral Panic Police Blaming Social Networks For Kids Being Kids

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 10 Sep, 2011 @ 01:17am

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  Not smoking, okay. Not drinking, okay. No sex??? You're still a virgin? Wow! Are you a monk or priest? :-)

• On the post: Sex, Drugs… And Facebook? Moral Panic Police Blaming Social Networks For Kids Being Kids

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2011 @ 08:28am

  This reminds me of the Dutch Psychology professor in the Netherlands, Diederik Stapel. Recently, he published a report which told that people who eat meat are salfish bastards. He explained that meat eaters are basically the scum of the world and Vegetarians are just nice, friendly people.
  He should not have done this, though. People distrusted this report and asked for facts, scientific data and whatever more. There was none...
  Then they started asking for facts and research data for his other publications... Still none.
  And now this Professor is suspended, probably to lose his tenure and all his publications are now suspected to be untrue.
  So, this research looks like Diederik Stapel wrote it. Then again, he's probable not the only unreliable professor. As long as these people are encouraged to just publish a lot, there will always be some fraudulous publications just for the heck of it...

• On the post: MPAA's Bogus 'Piracy' Numbers Mean It Thinks Downloaders Would Buy 200 More DVDs Per Year

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2011 @ 10:14am

  I have a DVD collection of nearly 800 titles, collected over a period of about 8 years. So on average, I buy 100 DVD's per year. Most of them in discount stores for EUR 5 or less. I rarely spend more than 10 Euro on a single DVD, unless I really want to see that movie.
  To be honest, I reserve about 50 Euro per month for new DVD's and since I have a nice income and no big expenses, I can easily set aside that much.
  If MPAA thinks I'm willing to buy twice as much DVD's then they'd first have to lower the prices a lot! About half their current price, I'd suggest. Then it still fits within my budget. :-)

• On the post: All Of Justin Bieber's Music Removed From YouTube Via 'Prank' DMCA Claims

  

  Lisa Westveld ( profile ), 01 Sep, 2011 @ 05:43am

  Just wondering... Wouldn't those Justin Bieber video's be more popular now, since they're mentioned in various articles? How many people here have personally checked if those video's are up and running again? Isn't this similar to the Streisant effect? Justin Bieber is mentioned, thus Justin Bieber becomes more popular. What more can this girl wish for? ;-)

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