On Tuesday, November 09, 2010 02:59:54 am todd rme wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:13 PM, Michael Pyne <mp...@kde.org> wrote:
> > On Monday, November 08, 2010 11:17:49 todd rme wrote:
> >> I am not sure the proper place for this. A user on the KDE Forum
> >> brought it to our attention that Sony is using the Air wallpaper for
> >> production photos on their laptops. See here:
> >>
> >> http://www.dabs.com/products/sony-vaio-e-series-eb3j0e-wi-core-i3-370m-2
> >> -4g hz-4gb-320gb-15-5--windows-7-home-premium-64bit-laptop-766T.html
> >>
> >> I am not sure what the license is on the wallpaper, or if Sony got
> >> proper permission, or if anyone even cares (or might even like it),
> >> but I thought I should bring it to your attention just in case there
> >> is something that should be done about it.
> >
> > Air is LGPLv3 according to its installed metadata. I'll see about
> > forwarding to the correct list and author.
I recently argued (elsewhere) that the GPLs in the context of artwork are
basically CC-BY. Whether this particular use is legit is partly up to the
copyright holder. If you really wanted to, you could do the following:
- contact dabs.com ("I represent a copyright holder that potentially applies
to an image displayed on your site") and ask where the two shots with air came
from (the third angle on the laptop shows, I think, a default Windows
desktop).
- go looking upstream.
- *possibly* ask dabs for an artwork attribution.
- think about producing some artwork that is under an easier-to-understand
license for art, as general "hey here is stuff to use for screenies".
> > Regards,
> > - Michael Pyne
>
> This may not be the fault of sony, it may be the work of the store.
> There was a VAIO wallpaper on deviantart that was just a VAIO logo
> slapped on the Air wallpaper, but the account was taken down. I
> thought that might be the source, but there are other stores that use
> a green version of Air instead so it may not be.
>
> -Todd
>
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