Dear Moleskine

Sunday, December 30. 2007

Please don't plagiarize my original content. Especially as you claim to "respect the rights of photographers and other original rights holders. As such, we do not steal, borrow, or reuse protected images or other content (video, audio, etc) without permission in advance from the content creator or owner." (Image/Content Use Policy).

You may want to check out the "Legal Notice" hidden away at the bottom right of this blog.

Thankyou.

Update

Received a (commendably speedy) mail from someone at moleskine saying they've deleted the offending entry, and also inviting me to either explicitly give them permission or write it myself for them, although why I should produce content at no charge for a commercial organisation is not entirely clear.

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"If you believe that your work has been copied in a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or your intellectual property rights have been otherwise violated, please provide us with the following information: (1) a description of the copyrighted work or other intellectual property that you claim has been infringed; (2) a description of where the material that you claim is infringing is located on the site; (3) your address, telephone number, and email address; (4) a statement by you that you have a good faith belief that the disputed use is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law. Any Notice of claims of copyright or other intellectual property infringement must be sent to Moleskinecity.com at:

inserire indirizzo fisico a cui mandare la notizia "

I suggest you send them a bill, as they don't seem to take yoghurt-based threats very seriously.

Though I don't think even the internationally-renowned fast and reliable Italian postal service (?) would be able to deliver a letter to that address.

#1 Karl-Marx-Straße (Homepage) on 2007-12-30 19:08 (Reply)

I'm curious to know if they have permission to borrow what they're borrowing (acknowledged and unacknowledged) from Gridskipper.

#2 Bowleserised (Homepage) on 2007-12-30 19:52 (Reply)

I left a comment on their site and will spread the word

#3 Didier (Homepage) on 2007-12-30 20:50 (Reply)

I'm curious also though about "permission" and gridskipper, particuarly when it comes to the use of other people's copyrighted (and creativecommons licenced) photographs. And I also suspect - having recently flicked through the latest edition of the 'Time Out' Berlin guide book - that more than one post on a different commercial travel website's Berlin section isn't entirely 'original' content.

#4 Karl-Marx-Straße (Homepage) on 2007-12-31 02:26 (Reply)

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