Finn Harps FC have thrown major shade at TheLiberal.ie founder Leo Sherlock by parodying his apology to two major news companies.
Sherlock was ordered to issue an apology following copyright claims from Independent Newspapers and court reporting agency CCC Nuacht, occurring between June 2015 and November 2016.
As the apology is an image, it cannot be copied or searched for on search engines. When it first appeared, it was almost indecipherable due to the very light pink text on a white background. As an image, readers weren’t even able to highlight the text to make it easier to read. The text was changed to a darker pink in the hours following its publication.
Before the image containing Sherlock’s statement, it states that writers who were “very young” and were “unaware of the mechanics of the news industry” were to blame for stories and images to be used without permission of the entities who owned them.
Poking fun at Sherlock’s apology, Finn Harps FC today tweeted “we promise it’ll be original” in a light pink typeface ahead of tonight’s clash with Bohs.
#UTH #UnifyAndDefy pic.twitter.com/9QKHylFGOb
— Finn Harps FC (@FinnHarpsFC) July 14, 2017
Legal representative for CCC Nuacht Teo Rossa McMahon said; “Those proceedings arose out of articles entirely written by my client’s reporters which were copied and published on TheLiberal.ie without license or payment.
“These articles were reports of criminal proceedings written by expert court reporters who attended the criminal proceedings reported on.”
According to the Irish Times, CCC Nuacht aren’t exactly thrilled with Sherlock’s apology.
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