On This Day In Canadian History*.... 1916 - James Richardson awarded the Victoria Cross posthumously for inspiring men of 16th Canadian Battalion to capture a German position at the Somme. Richardson fearlessly marched in front of the enemy playing his bagpipes, and was killed. (*Courtesy of those whiny bitches @ Northern Blue Publishing)
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On This Day In Canadian History*.... 1913 - William Stewart Herron discovers oil on the Dingman site near Calgary, sparking Alberta's first oil boom. Herron, a local horse wrangler, first noticed gas bubbling out of an old mine shaft in 1911, collected samples, and formed a company to drill on the site. (*Courtesy of those whiny bitches @ Northern Blue Publishing)
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I received this interesting e-mail yesterday informing me I am in copyright infringement for publishing On This Day In Canadian History....
From: northernblue@gmail.com Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2011 07:49:40 -0400 Subject: Notice of Copyright Infringement CC: markp.hunter@rci.rogers.com; kalum.figura@rci.rogers.com; rogersdigitalmedia@rci.rogers.com; webmedia@rci.rogers.com; mgeist@uottawa.ca; ombudsman@rci.rogers.com To: pnkilmartin@hotmail.com
Mr. Kilmartin:
This is to inform you that on your 105.3 KiSS Fm ViP Blog "Free stuff is the Best"
and in various RSS and Twitter feeds, promoting KISS fm, a property of Rogers Media, you have been and are continuing to use our intellectual property from our Bell Sympatico On This Day site, and from Today in Canadian History without our permission and without payment for a licence, as required.
http://www1.sympatico.ca/cgi-bin/on_this_day http://www.northernblue.ca/todayincanadianhistory/index.php/Welcome_to_Today_in_Canadian_History Please read the Terms of Use as well as the Creative Commons licence notice, which has been upheld in court. http://www.northernblue.ca/todayincanadianhistory/index.php/Terms_of_Use http://www.northernblue.ca/products/index.php/Northern_Blue_Publishing_-
_Creative_Commons_Copyright These are promotional sites for our digital products and use of our intellectual property without permission can and will harm us financially and reputationally. Please cease and desist or we will have to take steps to enforce our copyright and intellectual property.
Alastair Sweeny V-P Development Northern Blue Publishing http://www.northernblue.ca/products/ northernblue@gmail.com Twitter: @northernbluepub
This was my reply..... Dear Sir,
First of all, I have NEVER EVER claimed to be the original publisher of my "This Day In Canadian History...." anyone who asks are told I use Bell Sympatico's "On This Day" as a reference guide. If you want credit, no problem, I'll give you credit on my blog, which by the way is a fan site for KISS Fm and their contests, aimed at helping friends and fans win prizes that KiSS gives away by sharing daily ViP songs and bonus codes that are given out on an hourly basis every weekend. No money has ever been made off of my site which I volunteer my own time to publish and run. In no way is it endorsed by KiSS Fm and/or Rogers media!
Also, I could never ever have imagined that Canadian History or History of any kind can be trademarked or licensed....it is FREAKING history!! From a FREE site which gives it away at no charge and continues to give it away. How can you trademark and charge for history??. Where did you get it from? History books? Encyclopedias? other reference materials?
As for hurting you financially, how can that happen if you give it away and I in-turn do the same? As for reputation, how the frack can I harm yours by doing a little coping and pasting of historical material? A typo? An errant semi-colon? A hanging participle?
I used your site because it gives interesting info, tidbits, trivia about something that is poorly taught in Canadian schools....Canadian History. I could go to any number of reference sources and use them, but I chose to use yours because of it's focus on Canadian History. You should be glad I discovered your FREAKIN' site and share Canadian History with other Canadians!
The way I see it is you give it away and I in-turn also give it away. No harm, no foul. And as a result people learn history, their OWN history.
Patrick Kilmartin
P.S. - Also, for a VP of a publishing firm, you might want to mix in some Spell-Check, cause I and my FREE Spell-Check program picked up a few spelling mistakes in your letter. One would think a publishing firm VP would have experience in editing and proof-checking. Tell you what...for my "license" fee I'll head over to Best Buy or Future Shop and buy a paid version of Spell-Check and mail it to you!
Thursday, October 06, 2011
On This Day In Canadian History.... 1927 - Canadian born film producers, the Warner Brothers, premiere the world's first talking film, The Jazz Singer, starring Al Jolson; not a true talkie, with only 291 spoken words, but the first to integrate sound and dialogue into a story through the Vitaphone disk process.
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On This Day In Canadian History.... 1786 - Prince William IV becomes the first member of the Royal Family to visit Halifax; the 21 year old is known as 'Coconut Head' to his fellow Navy officers; he has a reputation for 'wenching'.
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On This Day In Canadian History.... 1922 - Cabinet creates Canadian National Railway Company as a corporate entity (Order in council P.C. 2094); government consolidates separate CNR lines into one system; appoints board of directors.
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On This Day In Canadian History.... 1919 - Dominion Stores grocery chain incorporated.
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On This Day In Canadian History.... 1535 - Jacques Cartier arrives at the Iroquois village of Hochelaga; names Mont Royal [Mont Réal]; visits rapids at the head of navigation and calls them La Chine [China]; local natives tell him of rapids and rivers to the west, and of mines of gold and copper.
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