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posted by Fnord666 on Tuesday May 21 2019, @01:34PM   Printer-friendly
from the sincerest-form-of-flattery dept.

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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."


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by JNCF on Wednesday May 22 2019, @12:20AM (7 children)

    by JNCF (4317) on Wednesday May 22 2019, @12:20AM (#845993) Journal

    How much time did you waste writing uninformed drivel that contributed nothing to anything? Personally, I could have tracked down the info faster (and in less than two minutes).

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  • (Score: 1, Flamebait) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Wednesday May 22 2019, @02:49PM (6 children)

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Wednesday May 22 2019, @02:49PM (#846225) Journal

    Good for you! I hereby give you a Brownie button. Feel better?

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    • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday May 22 2019, @03:50PM (5 children)

      by JNCF (4317) on Wednesday May 22 2019, @03:50PM (#846266) Journal

      Nah man, that square brownie button doesn't fit into the circular void in my heart. I think something else is supposed to go here... maybe Gawd's love, or internet discourse where people admit that they're wrong without feeling smug about not having done due diligence before posting? I couldn't tell you, but it's leaking out on my shirt; I'm gonna have a doctor check this out.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @10:32PM (4 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 22 2019, @10:32PM (#846405)

        That is truly a problem, and I wish I could repair that for you. However, having one's words labeled as drivel as a first response does make it kind of hard to reach a level of any compassion, or people feeling superior that they indeed tracked down the facts of a story that really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of anything whatsoever. You might not have had anything leak from your shirt at all had you simply said, "I think you're wrong about that because of the facts.... etc." And I could have said, "Crap, you're right and I was indeed wrong, sorry and thanks for noticing because I'll take that knowledge with me next time." But instead you decided to use your quickly discovered facts to fire a shot at me as well. So you get an admission I was wrong and that's about it. Enjoy it.

        • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday May 22 2019, @11:15PM (3 children)

          by JNCF (4317) on Wednesday May 22 2019, @11:15PM (#846416) Journal

          Are you also lawn-guy, AC? If so, it was my second response when I called your words "drivel." I think my first response was pretty polite, and I felt like your response to my first response was absurd in the way it boasted of not having spent time looking up the facts before posting. In that context, I don't regret labeling the original post "drivel." I wish you the best, and hope that you're actually thankful when others correct you in the future rather than acting like it's a waste of time -- ideally, you might even stop to correct yourself before posting. A lot to ask of Soylentils, I know!

          • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Wednesday May 22 2019, @11:24PM

            by JNCF (4317) on Wednesday May 22 2019, @11:24PM (#846421) Journal

            I'll add: I don't mean to ask if you're the same user as lawn-guy as an accusation of sock-puppetry, it's just that the first person phrasing of that post confused me and I thought it may have been an accidental AC post. The tone doesn't seem to match.

          • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday May 23 2019, @03:53PM (1 child)

            by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Thursday May 23 2019, @03:53PM (#846677) Journal

            First, apologies, yes that was me. Dunno why I'm AC there (or rather why I must have clicked the sqaure).

            All right, you also have an unreserved apology whether you need or want it it is yours. I was inappropriately callous to you and dismissive of your effort.

            For what it's worth, which shouldn't be anything to you and it's no excuse, I think I first saw and responded to EdIII's post first where he accuses me of being a corporate apologist and that probably slopped over to you. I still don't think there's anything wrong with occasionally not reading TFA's and not spending time researching something that isn't greatly important, but that shouldn't excuse my tone to you.

            May our next encounter be more pleasant. Thank you for representing the facts and taking the time to correct my misapprehensions about both the story and my attitude.

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            • (Score: 2) by JNCF on Thursday May 23 2019, @08:06PM

              by JNCF (4317) on Thursday May 23 2019, @08:06PM (#846767) Journal

              I appreciate your openness! I'm not claiming I've never posted without reading TFA, BTW :P

              May our next encounter be more pleasant.

              Agreed!