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March 08, 2005
Who owns us now?
Carsten discovers that a German DIY store is using a picture from our Cocoon Stammtisch in Frankfurt as part of its advertisement.
Update: I rang the company - who were very unfriendly. They told me that I should check who gave Hornbach the photo for publication. Or rather - who gave it to their PR company. I said that I was pretty sure that no-one had given it to them but that they had probably fished it out via a Google search - which he denied ("we don't do that"). Just perform this search and you'll see why I'm positive Hornbach is lying.
Update: Here's a screenshot.
Update: I just had a very pleasant telephone conversation with the PR company who runs Hornbach's campaign. They were very apologetic about the whole thing.
Posted by Matthew at March 8, 2005 02:03 PM
Comments
Simple solution to this, send off an email (cc:ing the boneheads at Hornbach) to their ISP claiming copyright infringement and demand they take down their server immediately. That'll get their attention. Then if they don't respond, do what Americans would do and have a lawyer send them a nastygram.
:-)
-Russ
Posted by: Russ at March 8, 2005 05:12 PM