Showing posts with label chair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chair. Show all posts

25 February 2012

Do You Need Permission To Take A Photo With A Chair In It? You Might In France...

The British Journal of Photography (BJP) brings us yet another story of aggressive assertion of copyright wreaking harm on artists -- the very people it allegedly empowers. It concerns some photos in Getty Images' stock library that have chairs in them. Because a few of those chairs are "famous" in the sense that they were produced by a couple of designers that worked with the architect Le Corbusier, the heirs of those designers, together with the Le Corbusier Foundation, have sued Getty Images in France for copyright infringement -- and won: 

On Techdirt.

19 February 2007

Why Ballmer Will Go

See? It's not just me:

Stop Him Before He Speaks Again!

....

Just keep him quiet! Should we expect another mea-culpa in the inbox?

Him being Steve "The Flying Chair" Ballmer. Do read the rest of the post for further insight into the state of the good ship Microsoft.