Union @ Cornell 02/25/17

[Johnny 5]

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t147/Coelacanth64/Cornell%20Forks%20Union_ELF_1.jpg

"Go Big Red!!"

::cheer::

[Beeeej]

These just get better and better. :-}

[Johnny 5]

Thanks!
It gives me something relaxing to do over morning coffee!!

:-D

[Hooking]

I think Johnny Petrilose still holds the rights to the bear logo above.

[Johnny 5]

Hmmm,...anybody know who owns the rights to the fork??
Guess I better ask.

::help::

[CowbellGuy]

I think Johnny Petrilose still holds the rights to the bear logo above.

In all seriousness, the university holds the rights to that bear logo, which is why we ended up with Huggy Bear.

[Johnny 5]

Mea culpa.
I will be generating a new bear ASAP.
Never meant to infringe. All in fun.
New bear will not be very huggy, though.
Can't do hockey huggy.

::thud::

[Beeeej]

Mea culpa.
I will be generating a new bear ASAP.
Never meant to infringe. All in fun.
New bear will not be very huggy, though.
Can't do hockey huggy.

::thud::

Dude, it's fair use. You're not selling t-shirts, you're just having fun making cartoons. Don't delete it or start over, I implore you.

[Johnny 5]

Mea culpa.
I will be generating a new bear ASAP.
Never meant to infringe. All in fun.
New bear will not be very huggy, though.
Can't do hockey huggy.

::thud::

Dude, it's fair use. You're not selling t-shirts, you're just having fun making cartoons. Don't delete it or start over, I implore you.

Thanks, sir.
Checking with my attorney.
Waiting for disparaging call from Union.

[Johnny 5]

http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t147/Coelacanth64/Cornell%20Hockey%20Bear_ELF_1.jpg

OK, one crisis avoided, for now?
But, Disney called...they want their pig back.
Now waiting to see if John Cleese objects to the Clarkson Black Knight?

"Blessed are the lawyers, for they shall inherit the Earth."  Matthew 5:5

O.K., now back to hockey!?

::bang::

[billhoward]

I believe the Union game is Saturday 2/25 not 2/26. You had me thinking this was another Fri/Sat shuffle to be Sat/Sun.

Unlikely Cornell will go after you for a copyright thing. But still, this was in my morning batch of press releases:

The Chinese are leaders in image theft – USA ranked three
COPYTRACK evaluated 10,000 records for countries with most breach of copyright infringements of digital images in 2016
Berlin, February 23, 2017: China recorded the most copyright infringements of digital images in 2016 with about 11 percent. France and the United States are in second and third places. This is the result of an evaluation of the online portal COPYTRACK. The Berlin-based company analyzed 10,000 cases selected randomly in 2016 from its database to find the ten countries with the most copyright infringements.
COPYTRACK is specialized to browse the Internet worldwide for unauthorized use of pictures and later to obtain license payments. Photographers, picture and news agencies, publishers as well as e-commerce providers are among its customers. Through a modern high-performance search COPYTRACK scans the entire Internet for duplicates of images of its customers. The hit accuracy is 98 percent. In 2016 COPYTRACK tracked the most frequent copyright infringements in China (11.11%), France (9.53%) and the US (8.21%). The runners up on this point of image theft are Turkey (4.65%), closely followed by Russia (4.57%), the United Arab Emirates (4.55%) and Spain (3.47%). Ukraine (2.85 percent), the Netherlands (2.72%) and Italy (2.68%) make up the bottom of the top ten.
"Most of our customers are very surprised where we find their images used illegally", says COPYTRACK's CEO Marcus Schmitt. ,,Image theft exists everywhere.  From private people, to bloggers to magazines and companies – image theft occurs in a lot of places. Obviously there are some countries, where the creative property of others is less respected", adds Schmitt. For COPYTRACK it is of no matter where an image theft took place. At their customer's request the company gets active worldwide and demands the subsequent payments in 140 countries.  35 percent of all cases are settled after a simple request for payment by COPYTRACK. The average value of such re-licensing of images is 694 euro. Another 55 percent of all cases are paid after claim enforcement. On average COPYTRACK obtained a total of 1430 euro. The portal bases its fees on the court approved MFM-overview. The goal of Marcus Schmitt is always the economic and fair post-licensing for the user. Often this leads to further business relations between creators and former image thieves. COPYTRACK always stands in for the entire cost risk of its customers, including all legal proceedings. The service is completely free of charge. Only in case of success, COPYTRACK receives a success commission. When Marcus Schmitt and his team are successful, up to 70% of the sum obtained go to the copyright owners.
The graphic ,,Top 10 countries in image theft" can be downloaded here.
Contact COPYTRACK:
Andrea Feustel, Rosenthaler Strasse 34/35, 10178 Berlin
andrea.feustel@COPYTRACK.com, Tel: +49 – 30 – 809.332.933, Fax: +49 – 30 – 809.332.999
About COPYTRACK:
COPYTRACK (www.COPYTRACK.com) was founded in 2015 by Marcus Schmitt and now employs around 25 people from legal, IT, customer service and finance. The service is aimed at, among other, to photographers, publishers, image agencies and e-commerce providers, and includes a risk-free search of the world wide Internet; According to photos uploaded by the users at COPYTRACK with a hit accuracy of 98 percent. The customers define images used without a license and even determine the amount of subsequent fees supported by an automatic license calculator on the portal. COPYTRACK is fully responsible for out-of-court resolutions in 140 countries as well as a legal resolutions in the relevant areas of copyright law. Only if the license has been successfully licensed, the rights holder receives up to 70 percent of the agreed sum. The pure search function is free of charge.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

OK, why is the bear speaking Gaelic?  Are we playing Notre Dame?

[Johnny 5]

OK, why is the bear speaking Gaelic?  Are we playing Notre Dame?

Well, it was that or Latin.
But, in honor of St. Patty's Day....
One time only.

It isn't a game reference, truth be told.

:-}

[Johnny 5]

I believe the Union game is Saturday 2/25 not 2/26. You had me thinking this was another Fri/Sat shuffle to be Sat/Sun.

Unlikely Cornell will go after you for a copyright thing. But still, this was in my morning batch of press releases:

The Chinese are leaders in image theft – USA ranked three
COPYTRACK evaluated 10,000 records for countries with most breach of copyright infringements of digital images in 2016
Berlin, February 23, 2017: China recorded the most copyright infringements of digital images in 2016 with about 11 percent. France and the United States are in second and third places. This is the result of an evaluation of the online portal COPYTRACK. The Berlin-based company analyzed 10,000 cases selected randomly in 2016 from its database to find the ten countries with the most copyright infringements.
COPYTRACK is specialized to browse the Internet worldwide for unauthorized use of pictures and later to obtain license payments. Photographers, picture and news agencies, publishers as well as e-commerce providers are among its customers. Through a modern high-performance search COPYTRACK scans the entire Internet for duplicates of images of its customers. The hit accuracy is 98 percent. In 2016 COPYTRACK tracked the most frequent copyright infringements in China (11.11%), France (9.53%) and the US (8.21%). The runners up on this point of image theft are Turkey (4.65%), closely followed by Russia (4.57%), the United Arab Emirates (4.55%) and Spain (3.47%). Ukraine (2.85 percent), the Netherlands (2.72%) and Italy (2.68%) make up the bottom of the top ten.
"Most of our customers are very surprised where we find their images used illegally", says COPYTRACK's CEO Marcus Schmitt. ,,Image theft exists everywhere.  From private people, to bloggers to magazines and companies – image theft occurs in a lot of places. Obviously there are some countries, where the creative property of others is less respected", adds Schmitt. For COPYTRACK it is of no matter where an image theft took place. At their customer's request the company gets active worldwide and demands the subsequent payments in 140 countries.  35 percent of all cases are settled after a simple request for payment by COPYTRACK. The average value of such re-licensing of images is 694 euro. Another 55 percent of all cases are paid after claim enforcement. On average COPYTRACK obtained a total of 1430 euro. The portal bases its fees on the court approved MFM-overview. The goal of Marcus Schmitt is always the economic and fair post-licensing for the user. Often this leads to further business relations between creators and former image thieves. COPYTRACK always stands in for the entire cost risk of its customers, including all legal proceedings. The service is completely free of charge. Only in case of success, COPYTRACK receives a success commission. When Marcus Schmitt and his team are successful, up to 70% of the sum obtained go to the copyright owners.
The graphic ,,Top 10 countries in image theft" can be downloaded here.
Contact COPYTRACK:
Andrea Feustel, Rosenthaler Strasse 34/35, 10178 Berlin
andrea.feustel@COPYTRACK.com, Tel: +49 – 30 – 809.332.933, Fax: +49 – 30 – 809.332.999
About COPYTRACK:
COPYTRACK (www.COPYTRACK.com) was founded in 2015 by Marcus Schmitt and now employs around 25 people from legal, IT, customer service and finance. The service is aimed at, among other, to photographers, publishers, image agencies and e-commerce providers, and includes a risk-free search of the world wide Internet; According to photos uploaded by the users at COPYTRACK with a hit accuracy of 98 percent. The customers define images used without a license and even determine the amount of subsequent fees supported by an automatic license calculator on the portal. COPYTRACK is fully responsible for out-of-court resolutions in 140 countries as well as a legal resolutions in the relevant areas of copyright law. Only if the license has been successfully licensed, the rights holder receives up to 70 percent of the agreed sum. The pure search function is free of charge.

Thanks, Bill.
Yes, I will be trying (trying) to avoid any legal issues, henceforth.
Still working on a permanent bear substitute.
But, I now see why comedians find it so hard to ply their craft nowadays.

[Hooking]

Implicit in my reference to Johnny's Big Red Grille was the assumption that the use of that bear logo on the Dryden Road sign was a casual affair back in the day - but times change?