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The Philippine local distributor of the Havaianas flip flops is recalling several of its havaianas children’s flip flops following the move in US to recall some children’s havaianas due to violation of paint standards. Reportedly,the decorative paint used in the flip flops contained levels that are in excess of the US federal standards.

List of Recalled Havaianas Flip Flops

Recalled havianas flip flops are primarily children’s flip flops and include the following: (more…)

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Is the Secretary of the Department of Tourism planning to run for a major political position come 2010? I wondered about this after checking out  the web site Awesome Philippines.

I first learned about  Awesome Philippines through a blog post by Tech Pinas. Tech Pinas described Awesome Philippines as the new promo website of the Department of Tourism but after checking out the images in the google ads and the Awesome Philippines banner, I have come to conclude that Awesome Philippines is Ace Durano’s website.

Check these out:

Google ad promoting Awesome Philippines

When somebody is making extra effort to get noticed particularly in a time near the elections, I can’t help but think that person is planning to run for a major political position.

So, am I right in saying that the website is promoting Ace Durano and not really the Philippines?

I just wonder though why the footer of the Awesome Philippines site has this: “Copyright 2009 by Philippine Department of Tourism. All rights reserved.” Did the DOT pay for this site? Why make another website when we already have the tourism.gov.ph WOW Philippines site?

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I have my own stories of being a victim of copyright violation as a writer and a blogger. I would be spending time– sometimes even hours to research on some blog posts that I make only to realize that somebody else would just copy my work and paste it in their adsense monetized sites.

I am no commercial composer or a big time artist but as a blogger, I do understand the sentiments of Mr. Gary Granada against the GMA kapuso foundation. According to Mr. Granada, GMA kapuso used his work without permission and without pay.

Learn more about the issue by listening to Gary Granada’s recording:

I have not heard nor read about GMA’s side on the issue yet but I can’t think of a reason why a lone musician will go against a giant TV network except to seek for publicity. To seek for publicity, however, does not seem to be the reason in the case of Mr. Granada. It seems that his right as a musician has really been violated and he only seeks reprieve for this injustice.

Did GMA intentionally use Mr. Granada’s work or is this a case of copyright ignorance? Either which, this is a shame to GMA. The network reportedly helps in fighting piracy and it has failed in upholding the most major of all reasons why video and audio piracy is illegalized: to protect the rights of artists and musicians.

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