Dipu,
> For
> example I took a picture of a globe and edited the image and put it as
> an app icon.
Strictly speaking that could be a problem unless the original globe
image is available to you under some free license. I was in the exact
same situation, wanting a globe image for one of my app ico
It doesn't matter if the patent could stand up in court or not.
Defending would cost you thousands of dollars. And if you're an indie
dev, you're pretty much defenseless. Patents (and especially software
patents) have long lost their original purpose of protecting inventors
and became a tool for de
I can understand his reluctance to face a lawsuit, but I cannot
believe that patent could stand a court challenge. The feature is too
obvious: the only way they could have met the requirement for non-
obviousness would be if they had a particular WAY to display it, and
that was was novel and non-ob
There have been instances of the rights holder threatening the
developer directly (ie. bypassing Google entirely).
About 3-4 months ago, some patent IP company notified one of the
developers of a caller ID app that they had a patent on displaying
location information of the caller id. The develop
Very interesting topic. I would like to learn more about it. I have
few apps in the market and several others prototyped. I am concerned
about how do I know if I am violating any copyrights or other IP. For
example I took a picture of a globe and edited the image and put it as
an app icon. I have c
I''m 43 and try to place by the rules. I've got a couple of apps in
the market that I wish were doing better, but thats the way things are
right now.
I've often thought about reporting such apps, but I agree that it will
fall on deaf ears with Google. Reporting the apps to the IP rights
holders
50+ - I'm from a time that if you plagiarized to write a paper, you
got expelled from school. That mentality stuck.
-John Coryat
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Hi Yahel, thanks for your view!
Personally I'm not worried about the ethics of say hurting Disney
either. I just don't want to get myself into legal trouble because I
don't fully understand the consequences. Maybe you are right though,
and I take it all too seriously -- I'm in the upper end (29) o
Hi Michael,
You need a little more cynism :)
What will happen to these infringers and their app if they get
caught ?
They will receive a cease-and-desist letter from the rights holders
and maybe Google will ban the appMost likely not the developper,
just the app.
So thinking about it being
Virtually every market category is just stuffed with copyright
violators. In my favorite category, "News & Weather" there is a
developer that has about 50 apps that all violate someone's copyright.
This developer basically scrapes a web site and publishes it as an
app, and runs his ads in it. Does
Hi again,
> Doing so may well violate their DMCA safe harbor provisions and open
> them up to big-ticket lawsuits. I suspect that they are best served by
> following the DMCA rules, which requires takedown notices by the
> rights holders (e.g., Disney).
I didn't think of that but good point.
I a
On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 8:37 AM, michael
wrote:
> However, I doubt flagging apps as inappropriate will have much of an
> effect.
I am sure you are correct. To be honest, I was just trying to make you
happy, because I am guessing that you won't like anything else that I
tell you.
AFAICT, the only
Thanks for your reply Mark.
However, I doubt flagging apps as inappropriate will have much of an
effect. Surely Google is already aware of the issue and choose not to
do anything about it. But who knows, maybe they would react if
infringing apps are flagged by sufficiently many people.
/Michael.
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