Is that nothing is too small to steal. *
‘Regarding the website http://sameoldsaskparty.com/
Yes, it is a Dotcomwebdeisgn template Greenshades – (modified) – http://www.dotcomwebdesign.com/?Free-Website-Templates-Section-4:Green-Shades
It is not a licenced (remove link) Dotcomwebdeisgn website, nor is it a license CMSimple.dk (remove link) licenced website.
Both links to cmsimple and dotcomwebdesign seem to have been removed without the appropriate licenses being purchased. ‘
Unbelievable but it is what one would expect from a party that has no respect for individual property rights.
/Sarcasm
I don’t see what the problem is, html code is for all to share. Nobody owns the internet
/Sarcasm off
Nice catch, nothing like a copyright issue to bite you in the middle of an election. Ouch!
With the Socialists its like being married. What mine is mine and whats yours is mine. Socialists “they want all that the world has to offer – so long as someone else pays for it. Nice catch!!
Political parties usually like to remove such notices from their sites and the chances are pretty good that they came to some arrangement with the designer(s).
You have a chance to change things for the better (i’m probably preaching to the choir here), don’t make the same mistake we made in Ontario on October 10th. Vote for your future not your past.
Exile said: ‘Political parties usually like to remove such notices from their sites and the chances are pretty good that they came to some arrangement with the designer(s).’
Two flaws with your comment Exile.
1) The NDP is rather proud to have UNION badges on their elections signs, flyers, and ‘promotional’ material, why wouldn’t they be proud to honor ‘free’ software and design by honoring a nominal license requirement?
2) the email received stating a license fee HAD NOT been paid (thus illegal) came from the designer himself.
Political parties usually like to remove such notices from their sites and the chances are pretty good that they came to some arrangement with the designer(s).
I guess you didn’t read the email from the designer(s).
I guess that’s the defining trait of the NDPers, they just don’t understand this whole “mine vs. your’s” concept. The very idea of private property baffles them. Its just so… inconvenient!
Most seocialists reject the idea of private property in fact PETER BERELE former leader of the AUDUBON SOCIETY and now in the sinister SIERRA CLUB once sair WE REJECT THE IDEA OF PRIVATE PROPERTY just like your typical socialists commie douchiebag
Kate, did you notify the media or Sask party?
This is one of those things, small, but copyright violation none the less.
Goes to show:
a) if the NDP can doctor info (copyright) to get away with not having to pay license fees on their website, how much more do they attempt in office?
b) they are stupid enough to believe that no one in Saskatchewan could be more acquainted with the Internet than they are. Of course someone was going to spot this!
Nice work Lorne and company.
Many of the images on http://www.gradworks.ca website are also plagiarised. Remember, this is the website (and program) that the NDP paid thousands of dollars to a NDP crony, Frank Hart, the former president of the CIC, to develop as part of a retirement send-off.
Out of curiosity, are all of the images used on this website from the public domain or used with permission? When you paint Road Runner on someone’s helmet do you contact WB for the rights and/or pay royalties?
Looks like they fixed it….typical NDP cover-up, they’ll probably try and deny it all happened in the morning.
They can try, but not like we didn’t take a few screen shots of what was published for months (and posted to Flickr) as well as saved copies of original code they were displaying.
Still too late, as they have been caught using unlicensed software, and they will still have to answer to the developers whose copyright they infringed.
Dumb @sses, documented!
Here’s the thing, Steve. It is all well and good to go about claiming fair use provisions on generic content that relates to the public discussion of the common good. The details of that proviso we can and will argue long past the point that the cows have come home. Yet common law provides for that, at least to some degree. What is egregiously not morally acceptable is to take an intellectual property that is clearly being marketed in the owners name and then explicitly delete statutory notices of title therein.
That’s gotta’ leave a mark.
“Out of curiosity, are all of the images used on this website from the public domain or used with permission?”
Any time Kate has used one of my photographs she has asked (and received) my permission.
“It is all well and good to go about claiming fair use provisions on generic content that relates to the public discussion of the common good.”
Fair use pertains to copyright law, not trademarks. Warner Brothers owns trademarks on every Looney Tunes character.
Understood, Sean. There is a software patent pending in my name. I am against software patents. That doesn’t matter though, because the patent is sought by my client, and our contract states that we will support them in such claims. I fully understand the differences between patent, copyright, trade mark, and trade secret provisions. Yet if a “common good discussion” shows a trademark in a story about the target of a whistle-blower, that is fair use under common law, whether or not the whistle-blower is correct.
My argument with Steve’s attempt at (as I see it) moral equivalence is that the accused defendants in this case appear to have deliberately removed required intellectual property provisos. That is not allowed under any circumstances, even fair use.
To put it another way, it is one thing for me to, say, literally quote the CBC and then criticize them, it is something else entirely for me to misquote them, and it is something else yet again for me to steal their work and present it in my name, as the defendants apprear to have done in this case.
Vitruvious – “What is egregiously not morally acceptable is to take an intellectual property that is clearly being marketed in the owners name and then explicitly delete statutory notices of title therein.”
Exactly!
The ND’s need to be publicly ‘outed’ for cribbing their political advertising material.
Where is MSM on this story?
Out of curiosity Steve, do you understand the difference between a political party’s web site and a private citizen’s blog?
How about hidden vs. not hidden? Stealing vs. legally creating a painting of a cartoon character?
Just wondering.
Oh and by the way, are you such a total d1ck naturally, or do you have to work at it?
Awww cummon> these are doctrinaire socialists…expect treachery!…it’s the norm for the creed….the wheat field commie credo is; “the end justifies the means”…they are so sure of the morality of their utopian dogma that lying, cheating, stealing and other criminal enterprise is justified to propel the cause of socialism.
Another universal truism:
“Socialism is theft and intimidated conformity disguised as morality”- (WLM)
WL, perhaps I was a bit hasty. I apologize to any d1cks that were offended by my previous comment.
Truly, there is nothing lower that a socialist.
From the dumbed down files…or if you will the we-are-comfortably-numb culture:
41% OF AMERICANS CAN’T NAME ONE GOP CANDIDATE
http://tinyurl.com/2hzkpn
“”The Pew Research Center has released a new poll showing that 41% of Americans responding are unable to come up with the names of any Republican presidential candidates without prompting. In contrast, only 19% are unable to name even one Democratic candidate.
(…)
Hillary Clinton’s name was offered unprompted by 78% of all respondents and Barack Obama’s by 62%. However, no more than 45% came up with the name of GOP frontrunner Rudy Giuliani — and even among Republicans the figure was only 57%.””
Sorry Kate posted that in the wrong thread.
Phantom: The deeper you go left the more criminal the intent of the policy agendas.
Help! Heeeeeeelp! Why is no no one publishing opinion polls in Sasaktchewan?? Does the NDP have control over that also!!
JJH
I guess I could take this moment to mention that I think I heard Wayne mention that he designed the Saskliberal.ca site to work on open source.
*wags finger at NDP*
Ok. I have now wasted a few minutes reading the linked article. (I can’t believe the guy thought what he was talking about was “geeky” but there it is. He also doesn’t know what “raise the question” means but that’s another matter too.) The NDP undoubtedly pays someone to do their sites. Whoever did this removed the link without asking or paying. That’s a no no. When I do sites, I don’t do that. (And I’m far, far to the left of the NDP.) So the NDP hired some person who screwed up. That’s the whole meaning and significance of the thing.
Clarification: he thinks “beg the question” means “raise the question”.
Sorry for my bad English.
Fixed.
Authorized by Chief Official Agent for the New Democratic Party, Sask. Section.
Are not employers are responsible for employees actions?
Perhaps Colin Thatcher has new grounds for appeal? ie: I didn’t shoot my wife, I hired someone to do it for me.
Phantom: “Stealing vs. legally creating a painting of a cartoon character?”
If she’s painting that image and being compensated for it without paying WB royalties for the use of the image, she’s violating copyright, which is certainly in the same league as violating a software license.
How about it, Kate? Do you pay royalties to the owners of the commercial images you paint and sell? If not, why not?
djb,
It’s easy enough to turn Kate in to WB. If they feel that there has been an infringement they will pursue it. Do it!! .. or FU. It’s your big chance to get at KKKate.
djb,
It’s easy enough to turn Kate in to WB. If they feel that there has been an infringement they will pursue it. Do it!! .. or FO. It’s your big chance to get at KKKate.
ural,
Sorry, I didn’t realize it was forbidden to question Kate here. I’m sure she’s very grateful to have people like you here acting to defend her.
Well done.
Not like Kate needs us to defend her. Sometimes we like to feast on the scraps left over after she’s done or too tired from kicking @ss all day.
🙂