Finow has seen fit to use the work of face creators without permission, credit, or compensation. Finow has even gone so far as to remove copyright notices, as well as logos and other identifying marks on some faces. Use of such faces helps sales and results in profiting from copyrighted works they do not have rights too. Even under a lose interpretation of copyright law, this is well outside of fair use and copyright. This is not the first time Finow has done this.
As recently as July 6th 2016 Finow was asking for permission to use faces even though they had already put the faces on their server again.
So to outline our experience with Finow;
Refuses to fix critical issues
EOLs devices they are still selling
Steals copyrighted works to promote their device
Removes copyright works after confronted
Asks to use copyrighted works while putting the works back on their server.
What we the got in return were empty promises of fixes and device support, and a couple of firmware zips.
So the question is, considering Finow's actions do we end our partnership with Finow and do what we have been doing since the beginning. That being trying to fix issues ourselves
Video of faces Finow has arbitrarily put on their server more than once
As recently as July 6th 2016 Finow was asking for permission to use faces even though they had already put the faces on their server again.
So to outline our experience with Finow;
Refuses to fix critical issues
EOLs devices they are still selling
Steals copyrighted works to promote their device
Removes copyright works after confronted
Asks to use copyrighted works while putting the works back on their server.
What we the got in return were empty promises of fixes and device support, and a couple of firmware zips.
So the question is, considering Finow's actions do we end our partnership with Finow and do what we have been doing since the beginning. That being trying to fix issues ourselves
Video of faces Finow has arbitrarily put on their server more than once
