[http://www.gadling.com/2007/02/22/march-3-total-lunar-eclipse/] Gadling reminds me that there's a total lunar eclipse tomorrow that will be viewable from...
I just got a bill from BT for my UK WiFi account on BT OpenZone. Uh, expensive, yup, and I keep finding extra charges on it from when I use it at some hotel...
I've been using First Direct to keep my Sun travel expenses separate from our family finances for many years. I can't say the experience has been that good,...
Your experiences are not confined to First Direct. I use HSBC for online banking and their recent "upgrade" of their security system must be costing them a...
Simon, ... In the absence of legislative action, businesses are likely to continue to cater to the monopoly marketshare gained by Microsoft's illegal business ...
... But even if I was a Windows user, requiring use of IE5.5 or IE6 is in itself irresponsible, and then forcing people to have ActiveX controls turned on caps...
... There seem to be so few of us rattling the security cage these days. They all want to do medium weight rich clients with no regard for the security ...
Most of the security issues about AJAX tend to be security problems with: a) Scripting the browser (Generating iframes to internal sites, e.g.) b) Cross Site...
... They ... security ... houses? ... I was fully expecting that response, but the question is how. At one point, there was a project to use Java in largely...
... Correct. The majority of AJAX issues are Javascript, since AJAX is really nothing more than DHTML+Javascript+asynchronously transfered XML between the ...
I mentioned in my linkblog that I was going to read Marvel Comics 1602, written by Neil Gaiman. This posting involves a big spiler, so if that's going to be a...
... point, ... the ... all ... And I wasn't implying an agenda. :-) I was dead serious. I do wish that we had that capability, and could have Java running...
If police officer SCD43 from the Met Police is reading, I can confirm that you took my photograph earlier without my consent. You were the guy outside the...
It's been a while since I've liked one of the free tracks that iTunes is giving it's UK users, but this week's track - Talk of the Town, by Kate Walsh - is...
You may have spotted in my link blog that I was excited to see Google Desktop available for the Mac. Well, I installed it on Thursday. I just uninstalled it....
I posted a couple of weekends ago about singer-songwriter Kate Walsh and the delicious track iTunes UK were giving away that week. I'd actually heard another...
I've not mentioned the iTunes US free tracks for quite a while, in the main because they have lately been so unmemorable that I've forgotten them within...
[http://astore.amazon.com/webmink-20/detail/030734195X/] In the midst of many issues and extensive travel, it's easy to get so caught up as to overlook...
I've stopped in Honolulu on my way to JavaOne, pretty much because I could (I am using an air ticket where stops are free, and the hotel here is less than half...
It seems this is destined to be a Denmark-dominated week for me. This time it's not to do with OOXML and ODF though. Instead, I spotted a new album on iTunes...
Opera House, Dawn Originally uploaded by webmink If you're a regular reader, you may be aware that I sell some of my photographs for commercial use over on...
Assuming that this really is a copyright issue and not iStockPhoto just being cautious, who would own the copyright in this case? Surely the opera house can't...
Mike Bowler
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May 27, 2007 8:21 pm
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I could be wrong... I suspect it's the reason iStockPhoto rejected the image... The opera house apparently claims a copyright on the image of the facility....
That doesn't explain http://www.davidsanger.com/stockimages/5-600-1416.operahouse ... -- dIon Gillard Rule #131 of Acquisition: Information is Profit....
... In some juridictions, courts have ruled that landmarks and celebritties are entitled to exclusive rights to their likeness, except for the Press in ...
... But copyright is the right to prevent copying, not just to prevent profiting from it. I suspect it's iStockPhoto being over cautious, given how many stock...
Agreed, unless they have permission... and I do not know if they do or don't. David ... Subject: Re:[WebMink] Opera House, Dawn; Copyright policy, Night-time ...