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Ah, you move in much more refined circles than I, it seems. The best I can manage is a slightly peeved email from the Exchange & Mart requesting that I moved gratuitous links to my weblog from their site. e.g. "Inflatable donkey for sale. Slightly dazed, but otherwise hardly used. £100 ono. Visit www.unreliablewitness.com for details."
What was the original post?
Did you reply back to their email with this, or just not bother?
Also when did it become illegal to use NotW cuttings? I mean it's illegal to use them for ransom notes if you kidnapped someone's potplant or something, but thats the potplantnapping that's illegal, not the cuttings.
This is the post in question.
I didn't reply. I doubt they can do anything about it but if they want to make a fuss, it'll be all the more amusing.
I don't see what they can do. Sounds just like bullying tactics.
Of course you should totally see how many lawyers letters you can get out of them over this.
But of course.
Can't think of anyones money I'd rather waste than Murdochcorp's.
This is ridiculous. Which is it they're claiming exclusive rights to, exactly - the words? Or the typeface? Or the concept of putting stories together by a random cut and paste process?
Dear Miss Jock Pandemonium,
I have noted your use of my logo. Please be advised that the Doctor Cockney logo is for the express use of Doctor Cockney, Doctor Cockney Enterprises, Doctor Cockney PLC and the Doctor Cockney Group of Companies only. Innit. Apples 'n' Pears. How's yer father. Cor blimey, guv'nor, strike a light, missus.
We shall see you in court.
Yours sincerely,
Doctor Gertrude Cockney (retired)
oooh fight! fight! fight! fight!
I suppose if things got nasty and writs were served, etc, the rest of us could all start writing our posts using only cuttings from the news of the world. they couldn't take us all to court, could they?
Interesting.
I wonder what their policy is on people using their paper to wrap food scraps, line a hamsters cage or light a fire.
Very amusing. How long does it take you to scour a paper for words? Where do you get your copy? Surely you don't contribute to old 'Murders' coffers? I cannot locate the previos post, could you stick a link in?
The original post is called A News of the World Christmas and is linked to in my fourth comment up there - I'd make another link, but for some reason doing so disrupts my sidebar in a way I find aesthetically displeasing and I can't have that.
For what I suspect is the first time in my entire life, I did actually buy a copy in order to make this, But as I was leaving the newsagents I gave the remaining pile one of my best withering glances which went some way towards easing my conscience. This one took about two hours to do - would have been longer if I had tried to do it with words of more than one syllable, and if I hadn't been distracted by cutting out all the censored swearwords - I am one c**t away from a full set.
The drop shadow under "Doctor Cockney" leaves me wondering where they swiped that from to add into their paper...
Ah, Jack. therein lies the problem. Your hypertext link could do with either emboldening or underlining. It looks like the rest of the text and I only hovered over the end bit. Perhaps a slight adjustment would help us troglodytes
What fun. I'm so jealous
xxx
Pants
wonderful bit of work :)
so much of creativity with that
I salute you.
Scary but sadly unsurprising. The NI headquarters in Wapping actually has a gigantic oil painting of Rupert Murdoch in the foyer...and you need security-staff clearance to get out of the place as well as in...
Got a bit of copyright training in my real-life job.
Your 'NOTW Christmas' post comes under both satire and fair dealing in the same way that Private Eye is allowed to print clippings for a cheap laugh. News International's clearly bored legal trainees can, to use the correct term, fucking fuck off.
Perhaps they could sue you for the vast amount of cash you have earned through the use of their words?
Kidnappers and other ransom note creators are clearly an untapped source of revenue for Murdocorp.
Good luck Jack.
Doctor Cockney? Why am I always the one who doesn't get it? Sigh.
hi, iI work with Doctor Cockney, he told me to say thanks!
Seriously... 'thinking to self have I used News of the World cuttings?'
Which post was it?