Published by Leonardo Calcagno
Last week, Jules Yap (above right), the founder of the IKEAHackers website, released a blog post with a worrying first sentence: “I am afraid I have a bit of bad news.” Yap had been cease-and-desisted by IKEA, which took issue with the fact that Yap had been advertising on her site—a reasonable thing to do, I thought, as it cannot be cheap to maintain the site, and she is arguably helping to promote IKEA’s products. But the furniture giant cried IP infringement, and as Yap explained, “I don’t have deep enough pockets to fight a mammoth company in court. Needless to say, I am crushed.” Article continues at core77.com