i can has copyright violation?

:: Saturday, January 12th, 2008 @ 12:47:04 am

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My screaming turtle image seems to be making its rounds around the internet again. Luckily, it is a popular enough photo that someone who “knows” me always finds it and takes it upon himself to email both me and the folks running whatever website it ends up on.

Today, someone uploaded a captioned version of the image to I Can Has Cheezburger, and it made it onto the front page. Luckily, I see lolcats stuff all over the place, and enjoy the humor (when it’s funny, that is). It’s an honor to have my image on the front page over there. (Emily from lolcats wrote to ask whether it was ok to leave it, which I appreciated).

I also am periodically forwarded the image as part of some terribly-bloated Word / Powerpoint document with wildlife images embedded in it. I hate getting those.

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1. posted by tanthalas on Sat, January 12, 2008 @ 1:51 am

   Prepare for a traffic spike to your page? ;)

2. posted by Caroline :) on Sat, January 12, 2008 @ 8:55 am

   Hiya E, the Cheezburger link in your journal post didn’t work … the link in your twitter seems correct though! :)

3. posted by echeng on Sun, January 13, 2008 @ 12:37 am

   thanks, caroline. apparently, i can’t spell “cheezburger.” :)

   Also, no traffic spike. 104 referrals from icanhascheezburger.com so far. I think two of 2 click-throughs were from me!

4. posted by Around the web | alexking.org on Sun, January 13, 2008 @ 12:41 pm

   [...] i can has copyright violation? – heh. [...]

5. posted by Timothy on Thu, January 17, 2008 @ 11:11 am

   Surely you know about this usage of the turtle image: http://www.naturesbestphotogra.....ition.html

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