Here's a photo of me holding the printed letter which I received last week from Lance Krakaur, representing the office of APC VP Doug Kessler, granting me permission to use their logo, imagery, and sponsor logos in any promotional non-commercial endeavor I see fit.
Anyone have any wiseass accusations of intellectual property theft they wanna glibly toss my way? Well, SUCK IT! I'll have EVERYONE know that I meticulously record, through the ThumbsPlus 7 system, who gives me permission to use their images in my LJ posts, and I property cite my sources when quoting (which I do as infrequently as possible).
I BLUNTLY REFUSE to ever be subject to baseless accusations of plagiarism and IP theft, and I PROMISE to go at it tooth and nail when someone has the audacity to start such a fight with me.
EVERY general-purpose image I have saved in the last 12 YEARS (since graduating High School), which I may redistribute in the future for non-commercial entertainment or promotional purposes, is saved with annotations in ThumbsPlus featuring either their terms of usage, or a hyperlink to their terms of usage. This way I can easily refer to the terms of each image, and ensure that I use them properly. As well, I can then refer to these annotations should someone waltz in and challenge me, or should I be caught in the middle of a misunderstanding where another party is misusing their photo.
FURTHERMORE, my main client has physical files dating back to 1964, with permission to reproduce the logos and intellectual property of their clients for marketing and promotional purposes. As well, we have off-site duplicates of these documents from our current active clients.
This is MY personal section of the Great Ideas Inc. showroom, featuring products that I was responsible for the production of. In the 6 years I have been under contract of Great Ideas Inc., I have been trusted to oversee the LEGAL production of over 300 marketing and promotional goods featuring corporate logos and properties of many respected brands such as:
Transamerica, CitiGroup, Abbott Labs, Konica Minolta, Panda Energy, Navistar Intl., LOGS, Konami, Capcom, Brunswick, ReMax, 3com, CDW, Bose, Makita, Sea World, Gracie Jiu Jitsu, Sturm / Ruger, Jackson Racing Team, AB Dick, ZipDee, Rose Packing, AgroChem, SBC, Hancook Tires, SeaDoo, True Value, Firestone and Ford.
As well, I have been responsible for projects featuring the respective properties of the United States Military, the Canadian Ministry of Tourism, numerous law enforcement agencies, and other government agencies.
All of these entities have trusted me to use their intellectual properties, even re-tool and create new designs, for their marketing and promotional needs. We have countless testimonials all over out walls, and filed away, from clients who value our expertise in properly handling their brand identities and intellectual properties.
So, again, think twice before accusing me of plagiarism or IP theft... I take this stuff VERY seriously.
Like clockwork, within hours of my post, two of the three misunderstandings have been amicably resolved. That seems to be a regular phenomenon, stuff being resolved right as I start getting all manic, and goofy.
Ah well, it's good to have them behind me.
Also not-surprising, the single outstanding problem I have is with MySpace.com deleting my cat's account. They stink out-loud for customer care, and still can't give me a simple answer. If it weren't for the misspellings in all their emails, and the days between correspondence, I'd suspect it was some computer program answering my queries (poorly) from a database of answers. Hopefully I'll get to the bottom of the issue sometime before 2012. =P
I'm just fed up with doing everything by the numbers, and still earning crap for it. I do everything on the straight-n-narrow path, and I'm still not immune to accusations of IP theft, plaigerism, bandwidth theft, carelessness, or other such buffoonery that I outgrew in grade school.
I'm painfully detail oriented. I haven't stolen a single KB of bandwidth since the 1980s, when I was still learning to use the World Wide Web on CompuServe. I have triplicate copies of my bibliographies for all of my articles and letters. Hell, I even straighten products on the shelf, and put them label-out, when I go grocery shopping.
Seriously, doesn't that sound borderline obsessive-compulsive?
So, then, how is it I have people knocking on my virtual door every two months making audacious claims that I'm stealing their work, when there are people lining up to fellate the average thieving quasi-emo retard on DevArt who obviously traced the cover of an X-Men comic?
Yeah, I know it's an unhealthy bend, but every year or so, my ego can't help but just get trigger happy and start lashing out on everyone with my database of sources, terms of use, bibliographies and run-on sentences.
I at least feel better that two of the issues resolved quite amicably. Both individuals were actually pretty cool. That's a rare surprise. Most of the time, I wind up having to drag in their ISP or have my lawyer draw up cease and desist letters to mail to their parents.
...WHY are the words "fellate" and "emo," already in my spell checker?! Who programmed this thing? O_O;;
Anyone have any wiseass accusations of intellectual property theft they wanna glibly toss my way? Well, SUCK IT! I'll have EVERYONE know that I meticulously record, through the ThumbsPlus 7 system, who gives me permission to use their images in my LJ posts, and I property cite my sources when quoting (which I do as infrequently as possible).
I BLUNTLY REFUSE to ever be subject to baseless accusations of plagiarism and IP theft, and I PROMISE to go at it tooth and nail when someone has the audacity to start such a fight with me.
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EVERY general-purpose image I have saved in the last 12 YEARS (since graduating High School), which I may redistribute in the future for non-commercial entertainment or promotional purposes, is saved with annotations in ThumbsPlus featuring either their terms of usage, or a hyperlink to their terms of usage. This way I can easily refer to the terms of each image, and ensure that I use them properly. As well, I can then refer to these annotations should someone waltz in and challenge me, or should I be caught in the middle of a misunderstanding where another party is misusing their photo.
FURTHERMORE, my main client has physical files dating back to 1964, with permission to reproduce the logos and intellectual property of their clients for marketing and promotional purposes. As well, we have off-site duplicates of these documents from our current active clients.
This is MY personal section of the Great Ideas Inc. showroom, featuring products that I was responsible for the production of. In the 6 years I have been under contract of Great Ideas Inc., I have been trusted to oversee the LEGAL production of over 300 marketing and promotional goods featuring corporate logos and properties of many respected brands such as:
Transamerica, CitiGroup, Abbott Labs, Konica Minolta, Panda Energy, Navistar Intl., LOGS, Konami, Capcom, Brunswick, ReMax, 3com, CDW, Bose, Makita, Sea World, Gracie Jiu Jitsu, Sturm / Ruger, Jackson Racing Team, AB Dick, ZipDee, Rose Packing, AgroChem, SBC, Hancook Tires, SeaDoo, True Value, Firestone and Ford.
As well, I have been responsible for projects featuring the respective properties of the United States Military, the Canadian Ministry of Tourism, numerous law enforcement agencies, and other government agencies.
All of these entities have trusted me to use their intellectual properties, even re-tool and create new designs, for their marketing and promotional needs. We have countless testimonials all over out walls, and filed away, from clients who value our expertise in properly handling their brand identities and intellectual properties.
So, again, think twice before accusing me of plagiarism or IP theft... I take this stuff VERY seriously.
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Ah well, it's good to have them behind me.
Also not-surprising, the single outstanding problem I have is with MySpace.com deleting my cat's account. They stink out-loud for customer care, and still can't give me a simple answer. If it weren't for the misspellings in all their emails, and the days between correspondence, I'd suspect it was some computer program answering my queries (poorly) from a database of answers. Hopefully I'll get to the bottom of the issue sometime before 2012. =P
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EDIT: I can imagine but...yeah, I'm curious.
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I'm painfully detail oriented. I haven't stolen a single KB of bandwidth since the 1980s, when I was still learning to use the World Wide Web on CompuServe. I have triplicate copies of my bibliographies for all of my articles and letters. Hell, I even straighten products on the shelf, and put them label-out, when I go grocery shopping.
Seriously, doesn't that sound borderline obsessive-compulsive?
So, then, how is it I have people knocking on my virtual door every two months making audacious claims that I'm stealing their work, when there are people lining up to fellate the average thieving quasi-emo retard on DevArt who obviously traced the cover of an X-Men comic?
Yeah, I know it's an unhealthy bend, but every year or so, my ego can't help but just get trigger happy and start lashing out on everyone with my database of sources, terms of use, bibliographies and run-on sentences.
I at least feel better that two of the issues resolved quite amicably. Both individuals were actually pretty cool. That's a rare surprise. Most of the time, I wind up having to drag in their ISP or have my lawyer draw up cease and desist letters to mail to their parents.
...WHY are the words "fellate" and "emo," already in my spell checker?! Who programmed this thing? O_O;;
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