DISQUS

Plagiarism Today: The Strange Truth About the FBI Logo

  • Francisco · 1 year ago
    Your commentary is interesting. But I suspect that you wrote it in anger, and in consequence your English is quite confusing.
    Something else: you are focusing on US law. What about the rest of the world? As in US users pirating from the rest of the World and from the rest pf the World pirating from US
  • Forrest · 1 year ago
    This is incredibly frustrating. My own problems with content thieves are of no importance to anyone beyond myself, and any lawyer I hire. That FBI logo didn't create the situation ... but it's a jab in the eye.
  • Will · 1 year ago
    This is interesting. Especially since the tax dollars of ALL taxpayers support the FBI, I think the logo should be available to all.

    btw... I had no trouble with your English. ;-)

    -Will
  • JB · 1 year ago
    Francisco:

    I wouldn't say that this post was written in anger, no more so than many of my other punditry pieces. The only thing odd about it was that it was written originally two weeks ago and has kept being pushed back and rewritten as other items have come up. If anything, it is a victim of over-editing.

    As far as focusing on U.S. law goes. There are two reasons for that. First is that I am based in the U.S., New Orleans to be more precise, and U.S. law is what I know. Second is that over half of all Web sites and all of the major search engines are based in the U.S. Thus, for better or worse, U.S. law is the law most commonly applied on the Web.

    I have talked some about EU and Canadian law on this site, I also write for the European Journalism Centre, where I focus a bit more on European matters, but until the Internet becomes more geographically diverse in terms of hosting and entrepreneurship, U.S. is going to remain the focus.

    Forrest:

    Well put. The FBI logo isn't the problem, but it would be nice if our government at least pretended to care about us in this matter...

    Will:

    Considering that the FBI has been so generous in ensuring that we've "benefited" from their other programs, it is kind of odd that they'd keep this to themselves.

    In all seriousness though, you are completely right. If our taxes, in part, paid for the logo, we should be able to use it.

    That simple.

    Thanks for the support!
  • beux · 1 year ago
    interesting, i did not know (i live in germany) of such logo and problems with it.
  • JB · 1 year ago
    Beux:

    I hate to say it, but lucky you. Of course, the EU is no copyright picnic either, but at least you don't have to put up with this.