The first lawsuit involves a large number of organizations
suing Google, more specifically relating to their illegal scanning of millions
of books and other publications that contain copyrighted images and displaying
them to the public. This action was taken in order to protect the interest of
owners of copyrights in visual works.
Basically this lawsuit was brought
on because various artists, illustrators and photographers were disregarded
their basic rights and were not given their due credit or even consulted by
Google reps when they uploaded their work to the site. In my opinion, what
Google did was wrong, they should have consulted these artists before they
uploaded their work to their search engine or at least given them credit for
their work.
This next
lawsuit involves the popular gaming company, Blizzard Entertainment, suing a
popular cheating bot for copyright infringement and ruining the “gaming
experience for legitimate players.” Blizzard notes that the bots created by the
company “Honor Buddy” infringe on its copyrights, ruining the fun for other
players, causing financial damage to them.
This
lawsuit was brought on because an outside company created a program that helped
destroy the integrity of Blizzard games, and also diverting revenue from
Blizzard to their own bank accounts. This is wrong, to create a program to
basically feed of inexperienced “gamers” for their own financial gains. On top
of that, there is the belief that the company made millions through the bot
sales.
The final
lawsuit is filed by Modern Dog Design against Target and Disney. They claim
that Disney and Target used their design in a tee shirt they were selling and
also featured photos of the shirt on their website. The grounds for the claim
against the two companies are the fact that they are making unauthorized copies
of the artwork for use on shirts.
This
lawsuit really hits home for me because these two companies stole the image
from their book and used it for their own gains, without even compensating the
company or even giving them credit for using their artwork. This raises a lot
of questions for me personally and also some fears, that something like this
could happen to my business.
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