Comments on Jon Silk | PR Geek: Family Flickr photo filched

I was attempting to send myself up a little being ...

2009-06-12T14:58:20.608+01:00

I was attempting to send myself up a little being uber-pedantic! :-)

I know - just chose another Eastern European examp...

2009-06-12T14:01:53.894+01:00

I know - just chose another Eastern European example. Was trying to be comedic with the 'High Street' comment...

Good point. Cultural differences, particularly the understanding of intellectual property and copyright, are often to blame in these cases.

Bratislava is in the Slovak Republic, and there...

2009-06-12T12:20:16.420+01:00

Bratislava is in the Slovak Republic, and there's no High Street per se.

And everyone there is grumpy! At least they were when I visited last December. I tried not to take it personally.

There is a serious point behind this and that's the "different country" thing. I've got to know a little about the cultural differences that still exist between us here in the West and the former Eastern Bloc countries.

I'm sure it wouldn't cross many people's minds there to even question why they shouldn't lift an image off the web and use it.

As broad a generalisation as that is, it's based on my visit there and converstaions about this sort of thing I had with people in Slovakia and Slovaks here in the UK - not a conclusion I arrived at after reading teh Dally Mail!