Fighting a Stupid Patent on Voting your Favorite contest
Posted: Thu Apr 30, 2015 2:02 pm
Been really busy, especially since Sept, wanted to finally share this with PBase members.
There seemed no other forum category that this subject fit, so Artistic was the closest.
It started out a fight for my own life, the more it went on I realized it needed to be a fight for all artist type websites or any website that runs voting competitions on the internet.
Plenty of articles all over the internet since February when we made it public.
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/photo-hobbyist-attacked-patent-bully
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/20/why-one-photographer-decided-to-fight-a-patent-on-online-contests/
http://consumerist.com/2015/02/17/hobbyist-photo-sharing-site-defends-itself-against-company-with-a-patent-on-online-voting/#more-10196102
http://petapixel.com/2015/02/21/photo-websites-being-sued-over-a-patent-for-online-photo-contests/
http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/02/19/photo-contest-host-fires-back-at-patent-bully.htm
Too many more to list, but those are some of the major ones
There seemed no other forum category that this subject fit, so Artistic was the closest.
It started out a fight for my own life, the more it went on I realized it needed to be a fight for all artist type websites or any website that runs voting competitions on the internet.
Plenty of articles all over the internet since February when we made it public.
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/photo-hobbyist-attacked-patent-bully
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/02/20/why-one-photographer-decided-to-fight-a-patent-on-online-contests/
http://consumerist.com/2015/02/17/hobbyist-photo-sharing-site-defends-itself-against-company-with-a-patent-on-online-voting/#more-10196102
http://petapixel.com/2015/02/21/photo-websites-being-sued-over-a-patent-for-online-photo-contests/
http://www.courthousenews.com/2015/02/19/photo-contest-host-fires-back-at-patent-bully.htm
Too many more to list, but those are some of the major ones