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Photographer sues BuzzFeed for $3.6M for using photo without permission

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Posted by dabitch on 19. June 2013 - 4:58

Yikes! As reported by Paidcontent :"Photographer sues BuzzFeed for $3.6M over viral sharing model", Imaging Resource : "Photographer sues BuzzFeed for $3.6 million over image use", and Petapixel: "Photographer Sues BuzzFeed for $3.6M for Using Photo Without Permission" ....a photographer has sued Buzzfeed. For lots of money.

The image which was ganked off the photographers clearly labelled "all rights reserved" flickr page, and posted in a Buzzfeed listicle called the 30 funniest header faces. Buzzfeed did the DMCA thing and removed the image as soon as the Kai Eiselein alerted them to the fact that nobody had asked for permission to use that image. Not good enough! Kai Eiselein is slapping Buzzfeed with a suit anyway, arguing that Buzzfeed encourages people to share, syndicate, source and plain old steal from them - thus causing the image to appear all over the web.

Buzzfeed, Inc. actively encourages its users to share content, regardless of whether or not that content is owned by, or licensed to, Buzzfeed. The plaintiff asserts that Buzzfeed, Inc. is responsible for 61 contributory infringements upon his photograph.

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Xbox One and the ASCII middle-fingers on facebook.

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Posted by dabitch on 19. June 2013 - 3:11

Right now the Xbox's Facebook page is home the what may be the worlds largest collection of ASCII art bird-flipping. Consumers aren't loving the new Xbox One system. Sony pwned Xbox with this Playstation 4 "official sharing tutorial", and I suppose the gamers decided to join in mocking Microsoft, invading facebook en masse. Ain't social media grand?

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Portland Press Herald: social media for everyone talks SM with Adland's Åsk 'Dabitch' Wäppling

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Posted by dabitch on 19. June 2013 - 0:55

We gab social media is Portland Press Herald, 'Social media for everyone, from the C-Suite to the street'. Then, now, big, small, the marketing in and the dangers of our new interconnected lives.

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Want to work in Ghana? Now Available Africa is seeking talent in Cannes.

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Posted by dabitch on 19. June 2013 - 0:11

Want to spend some time down in Africa? Where it rains? Sorry, had a Toto song in my head. Now Available.it have opened a 'Afropean' shop in west Africa, in Ghana's capitol Accra: Now Available Africa. If you're keen, you have a chance to interview with the Italian board in Cannes. Details below.

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Who is Zesty Guy really targeting; gay men or a million offended moms?

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Posted by dabitch on 18. June 2013 - 17:30

Ladies... Can we talk?

You know how I say sexist ads are bad for everyone, and that there's a balance of humor and emotion that needs to be reached for the character to evolve beyond the rock-hard abs, now he's just an object, so you know I'm not a fan. I'm not working for the type of equality where both genders have it equally bad.

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Dumb ways to die starts winning everything in Cannes.

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Posted by dabitch on 17. June 2013 - 22:09

As predicted Dumb Ways To Die is raking home the lions in Cannes, it took the Grand Prix in the Direct Lions and PR Lions. It also got a nice Gold Lion in the Promo & Activation Lions category. Trust me, it ain't over until the fat fireworks blow up on Saturday, there will be more. How do I know? Have you seen anything else memorable in 2012? That cleaned up at both D&AD and One Show?

Of course, this is Cannes, we can always hope for a dark horse from an exotic country .. :)

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Duolingo proposes to user in special exercise set up by boyfriend.

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Posted by dabitch on 17. June 2013 - 21:28

Duolingo are romantic saps. When Flavio asked them to help him do a a duolingo proposal, they did. See, Flavio knew that his girlfriend was taking Italian lessons with Duolingo so that she would be able to speak to her beau in Italian. He asked Duolingo to set up an exercise just for her that would lead to the big question. It began innocently enough, with "Lui ti ama" to translate. "He loves you". Then "Lui ti adora", he adores you.. and then it got personal: “Will you marry Flavio Esposito?”

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Jonathan Ive redesigns Apple: a.k.a colors, gradients, everywhere.

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Posted by dabitch on 17. June 2013 - 18:20

There's a new tumblr in town called Jony Ive Redesigns Things. He puts an orange-red gradient all over Marlboro, he makes the apple logo like a purple-pink pill and my personal favorite: Jonathan Ives redesigns the facebook timeline and Apple logo below.

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NASCAR placement fail.

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Posted by kidsleepy on 17. June 2013 - 5:12

USA Today NASCAR writer Jeff Gluck was quick to post (and credit the AP photographer Luke Brodbeck) this wonderful bit of contextual fail, courtesy of the Michigan Lottery.

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Behind the scenes: fleecing the client for mo' money mo' budget

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Posted by dabitch on 15. June 2013 - 20:00

It's no secret that I despise the "behind the scenes" ads that seem to accompany every ad, from your run of the mill cereal shoot, to your celebrity laden fashion ad, and every single kind of ad in between. I scoffed at the idea of making ad creators as rockstars™ already back in 2001, so this is not a new snark.

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