Hello,
let us not forget that phones equiped with a camera are an easy way to steal
company secrets.
I read in a dutch newspaper, that employees of Volvo are not allowed to have
phones equiped with a camera. Volvo is affraid that it's personel will steal
dellicate production processes.
Bastian
----- Original Message -----
From: "EGIS Tokyo" <hoffmann@egis.co.jp>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 2:57 PM
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Digigal Shoplifting
>
> Mika,
>
> I find it funny too. On the other hand, some of the practices they
describe
> in the article are certainly a problem for publishers who live from
selling
> their print products (and are often doing poor already).
>
> Its a difference (commercially) whether a girl takes a pictures at a
bakery
> store to send it to her boyfriend to decide which bread to buy (=
potential
> increased sales plus free promo for the bakery) or if a girl takes a
picture
> from a magazine page promoting a restaurant where she wants to go with her
> hubby (the magazine publisher/book store has lost the potential sale of
the
> magazine copy).
>
> Not too far in the future, book stores and convenience stores may charge
> consumers some kind of a flat "all you can shoot" fee upon entering their
> premises ;-) On the other side, bakery stores may give you a discount if
you
> send a nice picture of their merchandise to your friends ("Refer a friend
> campaign").
>
> Another trend I heard about last summer is that schoolgirls love to take
> pictures of their favorite singer/band/celebrity from magazine pages (or
> where ever they find them I guess) and then share the pic among friends by
> email as their keitai wallpaper. One girl said this is one of her favorite
> usages of the camera function on her phone, and also the main item she
sends
> to her friends by mobile email.
>
> Now, isn't this similar to someone copying pictures from someone else's
> website and putting them on their own site without paying anything and
> without telling the owner? On the other side, in some creative areas maybe
> copying and quoting other artists is not only allowed but also encouraged
> within accepted rules (techno DJ culture?). After all, only the good ones
> get copied ;-)
>
> Generally, there is a blurry line between creative usage and quotation of
> existing artistic achievements, and plagiates or "shoplifting" other
> people's work. Of course, the best option is always to simply ask the
> creator for permission to use their work. In most cases this works fine
for
> non-commercial usage at least.
>
> Back to the girl with her bakery shop and the restaurant promo. She will
> probably use both for private means only, and not try to resell those
> pictures (or does somebody know of successful digital shoplifting with
> mobile phone cameras for commecrial purposes?). Therefore, as the article
> indicates, it might be difficult to restrict people from taking and using
> pictures of the merchandise they see.
>
> Andrea
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mika Tuupola" <tuupola@appelsiini.net>
> To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 9:27 PM
> Subject: (keitai-l) Digigal Shoplifting
>
>
> >
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3031716.stm
> >
> > "Japanese bookstores are set to launch a national campaign to
> > stop so-called "digital shoplifting" by customers using the
> > lastest camera-equipped mobile phones.
> >
> > The Japanese Magazine Publishers Association says the practice
> > is "information theft" and it wants it stopped."
> >
> >
> > In a way. Quite funny. Then again it might be a cultural
> > difference that I fing this funny :)
> >
> >
> > --
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> >
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