Comments on: Lifestyle food competition: copyright warning

By: Pat Churchill

Pat Churchill — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 12:49:18 +0000

Yes, Ed. It’s a wonder they didn’t do some sort of moderating. I wonder how many votes the whole exercise received overall. Bet they won’t say

By: stickyfingers

stickyfingers — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 11:41:35 +0000

Oh that’s too funny – the Lifestyle Channel overrated their audience? LOL! I love that the number 11 national favourite is a venue called ‘Food & Plonk’. No wonder they still have the de Groots review link on their website. Somebody do a post on this. Puh-leeeeease! We’ve just had to pick ourselves off the floor for laughing so much.

By: Ed

Ed — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 07:06:19 +0000

Pat, obviously stacked and completely unrepresentative. Interesting to see Movida so high up though.

By: Pat Churchill

Pat Churchill — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 06:15:12 +0000

Well, here are the VIC winners. What does this list suggest?

1 Taco Bill Mexican/Latin American
2 Rockpool Bar and Grill Modern Australian
3 Ambrosia Caf

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:17:55 +0000

Davy, thanks for those fond memories – especially the old UB40 and, I suppose, Elkie Brooks.

By: Davy

Davy — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 07:05:16 +0000

“Whatever year 9 is” ah Ed you’re exposing your old blighty background there…I’m always having to clarify those kind of references (as well as avoiding mentions of A/O levels, fifth year, P45s, UB40s, crisps, fags, etc etc etc)…bloody colonials
(that last bit’s a joke folks).

We’ve got one of those old funky Singer sewing machines at work that I’ve nicknamed ‘Pearl’ after the Elkie Brooks song “Pearl’s a Singer”….no-one had ever heard of her or the song…regardless of age group….some times you feel very,very far away from home, not just geographically either.

By: Ed

Ed — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 22:09:33 +0000

Elliott, I’m just wondering how many of us actually watch the Lifestyle channel. If they’d done some basic year 9 (whatever year 9 is) research and why we should want to be involved in something that we are not evening watching on TV and why they thought we would be interested. It may be different if it was free to air and we could watch the shows. I’m just fed up with unsolicited emails the whole time.

By: Elliot Rubinstein

Elliot Rubinstein — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 14:24:53 +0000

I love all this passion but this silly little quiz didn’t ask for anything more than that you tick a few boxs.
They never asked for rights to our blogs or pics
As a piece of “research” it would make a good exercise for criticism in a year 9 exam It’s not worth the emotion (or any more of my time)

By: jenjen

jenjen — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:20:52 +0000

I got this email about a week ago. I was quite busy at work so I just glossed over it and didn’t pay it much more attention. But now that I have read your post and read the email back, now I’m really glad I didn’t respond. Besides I would have been too lazy to anyway. But it’s sneaky what their doing.

By: stickyfingers

stickyfingers — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 05:06:22 +0000

Elliot your commodious largesse is to be commended.

The point is, weigh up the long term and the big picture before signing up to a competition or offering up what is yours for no recompense.

Things to consider are, if Foxtel publish a newsletter, magazine or best selling guide book using your blog material, and perhaps a celebrity spouts your opinion and experience on a TV show – without citing your name – will you be OK with that? And if they win awards for their cleverness, will it still be fine?

If, as others have experienced, a corporation sues you for stealing their material or making money from a blog that’s apparently no longer legally yours but theirs, what will you do? Do you have the funds to fight a major corporation for years? I’m suggesting the worst case scenario because such things are possible in these litigious times.

In support of Ed, blogs are valuable in that they can arm the reader with information that is not necessarily apparent superficially, and can reduce the naievity when dealing with powerful businesses and the ruthless corporate machines that drive them. I believe blogs are here to critique and question too, but they are not immune to litigation.

In the modern world, knowledge has become the power to be aware of ploys and tricks. It robs us of our innocence but gives us the ability to choose for ourselves, to see where ego may usurp reason in the face of greed. After all, in the eyes of the law ‘ignorance is no excuse’. Caveat venditor.