Niall Kennedy Goatse’s Microsoft Blog
December 9th, 2006When Niall Kennedy found out a creative commons licensed photograph he had taken was being misused by Microsoft, he did what any net savvy blogger would do: he replaced the image with goatse. (Ok, personally I wouldn’t have gone that far, but it definitely got their attention).
From his site:
I license my text and image creations under Creative Commons licenses in the hope they will help other people tell a better story or unleash some sort of increased creativity upon the world of content I enjoy every day. When that content is used beyond the terms of my published license I choose to take various forms of action ranging from e-mailing or sending an instant message to the person (if I have it or can query accurate information without much effort) or by issuing legal documents of copyright violations to the offensing site or host.
Read the whole story: Handling of Microsoft’s copyleft violation.
January 17th, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Saw this included at the tail of a (fairly decent) piece on the broader issue of selective copyright enforcement:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/08/AR2008010804626.html
Amusingly, they describe the photo as “extreme mooning”. Rather dainty, but how did you expect to see goatse mentioned in the WP?
January 17th, 2008 at 12:44 pm
Thanks for the link. I was following several of the stories mentioned in the Washington Post story very closely and it was great to read the follow-ups.