"SOPA father" Lamar Smith infringes on copyright because he's lazy.
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Couldn't see this anywhere, so I'm posting it. If it's late, close this.
[URL]http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/01/19/lamar-smith-the-author-of-sopa-gets-caught-violating-a-copyright/[/URL]
[quote]Isn’t it funny when a Republican calls for a law against something only for them to get caught doing what the new law punishes? The latest Republican to commit this kind of hypocrisy is Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, who happens to be the author of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA).
Jamie Lee Curtis Taete of Vice.com did some digging to find out if Lamar Smith has been honest when it comes to copyrights. It turns out, he may be guilty of violating one. According to Taete, Smith violated a copyright by using a photograph on his website without crediting the photographer. This is the background photo Smith had on his website.
Taete tracked down photographer DJ Shulte, the man who took the photo, sent him a screen capture, and asked him if Smith had asked for permission to use the picture. Turns out Smith didn’t need permission. All he had to do was give credit to Shulte and he wouldn’t have violated a copyright. But apparently, Smith was too lazy to give credit where credit is due.
“I switched my images from traditional copyright protection to be protected under the Creative Commons license a few years ago, which simply states that they can use my images as long as they attribute the image to me and do not use it for commercial purposes,” Shulte said. “I do not see anywhere on the screen capture that you have provided that the image was attributed to the source (me). So my conclusion would be that Lamar Smith’s organisation did improperly use my image. So according to the SOPA bill, should it pass, maybe I could petition the court to take action against [URL="http://www.texansforlamarsmith.com.”"]www.texansforlamarsmith.com.”[/URL]
Not too long after Taete published her discovery, Smith’s website was taken down for maintenance. Coincidence? I think not. Note to Republicans: If you’re going to author a new piece of legislation that cracks down on piracy, make sure you’re not guilty of stealing copyrighted material. It’ll come back to bite you.[/quote]
Wow.
[editline]20th January 2012[/editline]
Looks like I'm pretty late, does this already have a thread? (Yes, I tried searching)
Yes, it does.
It was a few days ago.
by his logic his website needs to be taken down now
[IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxr95dPyda1qzc15oo1_500.png[/IMG]
[SUB][SUB][SUB]did not make this myself[/SUB][/SUB][/SUB]
Lamar Smith: Not only stupid, but is also guilty of what he made.
Wow, definitely shouldnt have gone into office as a Represenative.
Eat a dick, Lamar.
Hypocritical politicians? yeah why not!
when isn't a politician hypocritical?
You're aware that it's probable that he didn't design it himself.
It's the responsibility of the web designer who sources the content to ensure that the site uses materials in a fair and legal way.
I'm opposed to SOPA and everything too, but you have to look at the facts. He would have asked the designer "is this legit?" and would have trusted the web designer to work within the law. The web designer is at fault here, not Lamar.
[QUOTE=Maloof?;34303853]You're aware that it's probable that he didn't design it himself.
It's the responsibility of the web designer who sources the content to ensure that the site uses materials in a fair and legal way.
I'm opposed to SOPA and everything too, but you have to look at the facts. He would have asked the designer "is this legit?" and would have trusted the web designer to work within the law. The web designer is at fault here, not Lamar.[/QUOTE]
yeah, but according to his law the entire website can still be taken down
The version of the website that had that image on it isn't live anymore though. It can only be accessed through the wayback machine, as far as I know.
Low blow, but the guy's an asshole so I'm okay with this.
That's hilarious, 'cause a friend of mine just linked me to this:
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1niunFDkKZw[/media]
[QUOTE=J!NX;34300861][IMG]http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxr95dPyda1qzc15oo1_500.png[/IMG]
[SUB][SUB][SUB]did not make this myself[/SUB][/SUB][/SUB][/QUOTE]
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/16762596/endofworld.jpg[/img]
This guy should choke on a bag of dicks.
He almost ruined the Internet, the most sacred and beautiful thing ever. For money. There is no excuse for this. He shouldn't be in a government. Fuck this guy.
[I]Lamarr, lamarr, now where did she get to?[/I]
[img]http://images.wikia.com/half-life/en/images/9/99/Lamarr.jpg[/img]
[sub][sub]Excuse me for the lame pun[/sub][/sub]
It wasn't even a pun. You just posted something that has a name that's similar.
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