Seeing as Platte Media is so hot on sending out legal threats to anyone trying to remove their insidious software, I thought it would be "fun" to look at the things they're doing online that they think is OK, but actually is either illegal or just bad etiquette.
Leave aside their dubious billing software for the moment, as there's plenty of room to talk about that.
Share your observations here. Here's mine:
1. Puts copyrighted images on their Get Films Now web site for films they do not have the rights to show, nor have available.
Outcome: Receive cease and desist letters from Warner Brothers, 20th Century Fox, possibly BiBC to come
2. Links to copyrighted material on YouTube. Yes I know many web sites do this, but it doesn't make it right. They don't have the rights to the music videos they're linking to.
3. Lifts "news" straight from other web sites, verbatim, with only minimal accreditation. This is bad etiquette and may break copyright / republication terms and conditions on the original site.
Evidence - Live Nation CEO quits - text is lifted word-for-word from
Undercover (warning, first link is to ChartUnlimited, though the page does nothing, you may wish to avoid it)You know, Platte, we are now watching you
very closely. Maybe you wish you hadn't been so heavy-handed in the first place, eh? What goes around comes around.
Tip: Don't mess with major Hollywood film studios, it could send you under.
