Deccan Chronicle Steals
Written by Dilip Muralidaran on October 8, 2008 – 5:35 pm -Vasanthkumar Rajendran reports that his image has been stolen by Deccan Chronicle.
Here is the account.
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Fully Hyd Apologizes
Written by Dilip Muralidaran on September 24, 2008 – 9:09 pm -Phew, i’m so damn saved. I’m just so happy i don’t have to go to court and the police station again all over and run around like a rat on opium. Fully Hyd’s CEO today called and apologized for the usage of the picture.
Contrary to my expectations he was not rude and in fact quite honest and apologetic about what happened. The last thing i wanted 2 days before a melbourne trip was a pending legal issue on my head and im so glad it went through fine.
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Fully Hyd Steals…
Written by Dilip Muralidaran on September 23, 2008 – 8:21 pm -I thought one was enough and one incident was the end of it but then it looks like the indian media is not done with me yet.
Today my friend Archana pointed out that a picture of hers that i took and posted on flickr was stolen by www.fullyhyd.com and used on their website without my permission. I was not asked about this picture, i was not paid, nor was i credited for this image. My work of art, lifted off my flickr photo portfolio and used, sigh!
Here is the webpage, there is a section called "The Voices of Town" and you gotta keep refreshing it. You will see a picture of a cute girl smiling, its inside a santro car. I took that pic.
Here is the Original.
Here is the stolen image on the website.
Someone is looking forward to a nasty copyright infringement lawsuit. Good Luck, FullyHyd.com. You are just about to realize that you just messed with the wrong guy.
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Pehli Nazar Mein can go fuck itself!
Written by Dilip Muralidaran on August 16, 2008 – 3:53 am -I was sitting at this pub last night and they were playing desi night and the song was "Pehli Nazar Mein Kya Jadu Kar Diya" and i thought, "what an amazing number!". I’ve heard this before on a couple of friends/colleagues caller tune and i did not like this song much but listening to it in a club in full quality was like Christmas for me and it made it, i became a fan and i downloaded this album today (RACE) and listened to it.
I was trying to see how the video for this fantastic number would look like and i found more than what i was looking for on youtube. I know i may be late by weeks or months and this is old news but still……
You may download the Original Sarang Hae Yo from here.
In the wake of copyright infringements that haven’t really made me a happy person and knowing how the Indian Copyright Act, 1957 and its amendment, the last one being almost 9 years ago in 1999 (after which the Internet changed everything and its existence this act is oblivious about) being such a joke, i just thought i would let the few people who listen to Hindi music and probably love this song, its stolen…
It’s someone else’s hard work that’s been lifted just because you are a brown man here and your vague laws protect you from prosecution…. i feel it very unfair and very painful. I don’t know what i can as an individual do. I took off this song from my MP3 player and i updated it with the Original Korean song, i care not if i don’t get the language. To feel love, words are not a necessity. The though i think is enough with the wonderful feeling.
I’m thinking i will spread this message to everyone i know so that they are listening to a thief and this is stolen shit. If that sense of guilt could help, i guess that makes my day.
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