Hi Dan,

Thank you for the clarification. I have contacted Warner Brothers to
figure out what their sense of parody is.

A part of the submission is a suggestion to use "The Dot and the Line"
as a marketing vehicle for android to show difference between a rigid
traditional cellphone and the new compelling flexibility of an android
phone. AND that the two lines and a dot form a differential sensor.
(think bug antennae) A differential sensor is key to choosing which
direction to go... or finding anyone anywhere. There was a bunch of
stuff cut from the skit that showed that the olives only became
animated after they received differential sensors from the android. A
whole segment on chocolate chip cookie smell gradient detection.

Anyway, in the interest of parody, the final footnote to infinity [7]
on the presentation, where you can't exactly find the attribution,
well,... that's an Obama quote.     I do not know it's original
source, no plagerism intended!!!  I thought  the phrasing and word
choice would make this obvious Obama...  (-:

All the best,
Ed



On Apr 19, 5:09 pm, "Dan Morrill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To clarify, when I say "obviously" I mean exactly that: obviously.  As in, I
> unzipped the bundle containing someone's submission and found myself staring
> at a bunch of files that scream out "Look at me!  I was pirated!"
> It's up to submitters to determine their own compliance, and we give the
> benefit of the doubt except in cases where a violation is utterly clear.
>  Submissions that are candidates for an award will get a closer look to
> verify T&C compliance before being formally selected for an award, but we're
> not running around disqualifying any submission that includes an MP3 or
> anything like that.
>
> - Dan
>
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:06 PM, Greg_G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > handful that were disqualified according to the rules in the Terms &
> > > Conditions.  (The apps that were disqualified were ones that were
> > submitted
> > > with obviously copyrighted material such as music files or ROMs, so don't
> > > worry that we were disqualifying people on technicalities.)
>
> > Hi Dan,
>
> > I can't help but worry about this a little.  I included a mechanism
> > that downloads sample media files per our discussion here:
>
> >http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge/browse_thread/thread...
>
> > As I mentioned there and also in my documentation, all the media files
> > I prepared for the judging process are either public domain or
> > Creative Commons with full attribution in the documentation.
> > Specifically, the media files that are downloaded by the app are in
> > the latter category.  But since you mentioned in that thread that
> > y'all wouldn't have time to verify license adherence (although you
> > said that in reference to a LGPL library I mentioned separately and
> > not media files) I just want to make sure that my submission won't get
> > disqualified because someone assumes I didn't "do things right" when
> > they see it downloading media files.
>
> > I'm guessing this is covered by the "obviously copyrighted" remark and
> > I'm tilting at windmills here.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Greg- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -
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