….No, but I did get sued by a Holiday Inn last night July 25, 2007
If you use images of a Holiday Inn from this web site for any reason you can get sued. This is another example of idiotic copyright notices that ignore copyright law and seek to restrict any and all use of even the worst quality material. The images have text that read “No use without permission of InterContinental Hotels Group.”
This post is an example of fair use. It’s criticism of stupidity.
(previously on fair use day Copyright is broken)
- Posted in : Copyright Law, Fair Use Rights, copyfight, copyright, stupidity, I CAN HAS RIGHTS?!
- Author : fairuseday
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Well now, look closely at that image. What do we have here? Did they hotel ask permission of the car company, landscape designer, construction contractor, architect, sign maker, paint company, asphalt company, or tire mfg. Oh, wait, there’s one most important “person” here to ask permission of… God - the ultimate copyright holder of the sky.
Copyright abuse? Yes, they are abusing the right to put he word “copyright” on this image. You be the judge - look at the zoomed in image. Who would even want to know what this image is, much less “steal” it.
Not to mention that another company’s building is shown in the background of the image. I doubt that Holiday Inn got their permission to show that building in the background.
They just don’t seem to have any idea about their own hypocrisy, or stupidity.