Remember how Lamar Smith, sponsor of SOPA, used a copyrighted image for his website’s background image without permission? Sean Sherlock, the junior minister preparing Ireland’s SOPA did something similar on his website (which is currently down).
Remember how Lamar Smith, sponsor of SOPA, used a copyrighted image for his website’s background image without permission? Sean Sherlock, the junior minister preparing Ireland’s SOPA did something similar on his website (which is currently down).
Donncha Ó Caoimh is a software developer at Automattic and WordPress plugin developer. He posts photos at In Photos and can also be found on Twitter.
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4 replies on “Sherlock and Smith and copyright images”
Meanwhile the VP of EMI has come out against SOPA and it’s ilk.
His site is back, now with new icons. I don’t recognise the new icons myself, any takers?
That’d be funny if it wasn’t so serious! I’ll have to try punch them into Google Image Search tomorrow methinks. I bet some web developer got a bollocking off him for using those images though!
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