It reminds me of a certain hideous cetacean!

http://www.sover.net/~mobywick/images2005/images5-2-05/RightWhale.jpg

Drobo? Yes, yes, and yes. World Economy? Like any old ship, batten down the hatches and ride it out until all your fictional accounting storms are sorted out.

You're all linking to the wrong YouTube videos to truly demonstrate this concept:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJmX1z1NY2c

The Deliverator's car has enough potential energy packed into its batteries to fire a pound of bacon into the Asteroid Belt. Unlike a bimbo box or a Burb beater, the Deliverator's car unloads that power through gaping, gleaming, polished sphincters... You want to talk contact patches? Your car's tires have tiny contact patches, talk to the asphalt in four places the size of your tongue. The Deliverator's car has big sticky tires with contact patches the size of a fat lady's thighs. The Deliverator is in touch with the road, starts like a bad day, stops on a peseta.

As he scrunches to a stop, the electromechanical hatch on the flank of his car is already opening to reveal his empty pizza slots, the door clicking and folding back in on itself like the wing of a beetle. The slots are waiting. Waiting for hot pizza.



(credit to Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash)

My good God, what is the purpose of the seat-mounted groin-knob?

Flight to Amsterdam?
I would write a nice haiku
and then save the world.

Luckily, copyright / intellectual property law isn't concerned with who's more greedy.

The question is whether their use of a very, very similar image was fair, and the fact that they asked him first means they clearly wanted to use his.

So, the more central questions is something like "what damages has he suffered because they copied his image almost-verbatim?"


(as an aside, I'd say $2,000 isn't particularly greedy of him for what they wanted to use his image for. Advertising is very big business.)

@K4ffy - but this is more creative than a bottle of milk and a background. The use of color and material is obviously very similar, and IANALB it most definitely looks like a blatant violation of IP rights.

I'd like to see him sue just to see what 3M's legal team's response would be.

camera?

@Paul J.: I've got to respectfully disagree. I think it looks gorgeous, and uses flowing lines to emphasize an elegant, sweeping, and most-of-all unique style.

On the other hand, I think the 911 looks like a floppy tit and sounds like a nervous RC car.

@Autoblog: Where are pics of the engine, or an underside shot of the exhaust piping? Too bad they didn't make more substantial improvements on the car....