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Lenovo stole a fan's video to promote the foldable Motorola RAZR
Yesterday, Lenovo shared a promotional video for the rumored foldable Motorola RAZR. While the 30-second teaser was shared with members of the media during a group interview and was accompanied by the Lenovo logo, it appears that the company used video from a fan and branded it as its own. The footage that was played by Lenovo was actually spliced together from a render created by tech YouTuber Waqar Khan. According to Khan, he didn't give Lenovo permission to use the concept images that he created. Engadget has reached out to Lenovo and Motorola regarding the video and will update this story if we hear back.
The clip Lenovo showed to the press yesterday appears to be cut together from a number of renders that was first seen in a video titled "Motorola RAZR 2019 - Introduction & First Look!" that was uploaded to by Khan to YouTube on February 9th of this year. Many of the images in Lenovo's video are identical to those that appear in Khan's, and it even looks like Khan's Twitter handle watermark is still present in the footage shared by Lenovo. However, Lenovo's video ends with the company's logo, making it look like an official product.
Despite Lenovo's branding appearing on the footage, Khan confirmed that he was not approached by the company regarding the renders. "They used it without my permission," he told Engadget via direct message on Twitter. "I don't know what's going [on], man."
(Score: 3, Insightful) by edIII on Tuesday May 21 2019, @08:11PM (1 child)
Yeah, those are baseless assumptions that sound like they're right out of the mouth of a corporate apologist. You admitted you would never investigate, but still free to push out assumptions?
Don't underestimate the stupidity and/or malice of powerful corporations. A lawyer for DuPont is literally on record saying they should probably continue poisoning a family with dumped chemicals rather than come clean with the same logic of a teenager returning at 6 am instead of 2am; Damage done. Lawyers can be shitty and rely on strength over legal correctness. In other words they're not afraid to take advantage of the power imbalance and system that does exist, rather than stick to strict ethical and legal principles. It's only been recently that people have the ability to take a story viral without the aid of MSM, and present their cases to the public at large.
This sounds like something that moved forward with miscommunication, and somebody dropped the ball at defining all the media being used and where it came from. The TFS says the Lenovo logo was placed over it, and you had to look carefully to see his watermark. I'm willing to believe this one skipped pass the people responsible for clearing it, and I'm more than willing to believe some newbie created something by pulling whatever he/she could from the web.
I've seen both situations play out more than once myself.
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(Score: 1, Redundant) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Tuesday May 21 2019, @10:42PM
Yes, I am willing to voice opinions without reading TFA, which I was careful to qualify as such, and I also mentioned that I was aware of exceptions in other industries where such stupidity happened.
What I was saying, if you reread, is that I would have thought that Lenovo would have been more careful. So I was wrong.
So what?
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