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• George P. Riddick, III is a man with a mission. A man with a singular and almost fanatical crusade to seek out and destroy those he claims to have violated his copyright and therefore should be burnt in hell (or pay out substantial amounts of cash, whichever the courts decide first, I guess)!
  
  What George P. Riddick, III is possibly unaware of however, is that his collection of bitmap clip art is vastly out-dated crap that no one in their right mind apart from the odd backwater church community or primary school would ever nowadays use. Although he still viciously pursues and targets those as well.
  
  With the immense and truly wonderful power of the Internet, search engines as powered by Google and Microsoft collect and index information that makes it easier for everyone to find images. Mr Riddick is ferociously against this as he believes they infringe his copyright by holding his images on their servers, and therefore people can search and use them freely.
  
  (Read his comment to an article here:
  
  http://seekingalpha.com/article/48337-microsoft-banks-170-million-in-first-day-of-halo-3-release)
  
  Well, I guess of course this would be correct them if the images you are so fiercely protecting do not have a copyright watermark on them!
  
  Oddly enough too, Microsoft, one of his hated targeted companies belongs to the Copyright Alliance Organization, of which George is also a proud member and hypocritically uses this fact when dishing out one of his so-called 'official' emails.
  
  The ironic twist to all this is that the bitter and resentful George P. Riddick, III should look no further for international infringement than within his own collection of shoddy and archaic bitmaps. I noticed one example of the United Nations flag here:
  
  http://www.imageline2.com/pages/ipics2_MAPSFlags.htm
  
  Now, even though such flags are ineligible for copyright they are still protected by 'Article 6' of the Paris Convention (Protection of State Emblems, and Names, Abbreviations and Emblems of International Intergovernmental Organizations).
  
  I wonder if Mr Riddick therefore realizes that depicted images (including but not limited to photographs and two dimensional drawings) representing partly or in whole of the UN emblem, name and flag are STRICTLY PROHIBITED FOR DISTRIBUTED COMMERCIAL USE without going through proper channels of procedure and obtaining permission.
  
  Mr Riddick claims to have never been accused of any violations within the last 25 years, well I have news, now you have. Yes George P. Riddick, III, you too are seriously infringing the industrial property rights of an international organization, how does it feel?
  
  So Mr Riddick, before you continue your tiresome, pointless and self-indulging evangelistic campaign, maybe you should look nearer home, hold yourself accountable and add Imageline, Inc. to that All Company Listing you so condescendingly produce. And how about sending the United Nations a grovelling apology and one of those huge out-of-court settlement fees that you so enjoy collecting from everyone else.
  
  And remember, an ignorant plea is never a defence in a court of law. In reply to: "Eisner's advice to striking writers: Blame Steve Jobs, not the studios"

  September 23, 2008

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