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My first reaction was "who give a fuck?" then I got to the part of the article that says:
His website, which also features the purple dragon and a bunch of busted links in the footer, says that the firm "integrates AI to lower the cost of legal services."
Which is honestly a thousand times more concerning than how he chooses to display his silly logo. Dude is writing legal documents with AI. At least his lack of professionalism is obvious.
10 years ago I would've agreed that this kind of watermark was inappropriate. But seeing how much of our federal legal system has become a joke, up to and including the Supreme Court, decorum isn't high on my priority list anymore
Agreed, the US Supreme Court is entirely responsible if they receive more ridicule than respect these days.
Honestly that big ass logo is distracting.
Regardless of the design, any logo set at that level of transparency, size and placement, is going to make the text hard to read.
agreed this one is far better
https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn%3AANd9GcQcVdd0rNmSUtJvf62gSzKeQ3sYNA5B7Is5SA&s=
It's either a logo on the legal documents, or the lawyers come to court in dragon fursuits. No compromises. 😤
"Each page of plaintiff’s complaint appears on an e-filing which is dominated by a large multi-colored cartoon dragon dressed in a suit," he wrote on April 28 (PDF). "Use of this dragon cartoon logo is not only distracting, it is juvenile and impertinent. The Court is not a cartoon."
The Court is not a cartoon.
They're portraying themselves as a scalie, not you.
That being said, why is anyone involved here watermarking PDF with anything? I mean, normally the purpose of a watermark is to link content with the creator. But I seriously doubt that the text and the background image have been merged into some kind of raster image.
investigates
Yeah, they link to the original dragonized PDF.
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.miwd.114988/gov.uscourts.miwd.114988.1.0.pdf
It's just text on top of the image. You can copy-paste the text:
DRAGON LAWYERS PC
Jacob A. Perrone (P71915)
Attorneys for Plaintiff
325 East Grand River Ave., Suite 250
East Lansing, MI 48823
Phone: (844) JAKELAW
[email protected]
It's like having a screensaver on an LCD monitor.
And pdftotext, in poppler-utils, looks like it makes a pretty decent de-watermarked text file of it too.
It's like having a screensaver on an LCD monitor.
But screensavers are fun!
The Court is not a cartoon.
They're portraying themselves as a scalie, not you.
I think they meant this like "This court is not a cartoon, so keep your cartoon character out of it" - cartoon as in the medium, not the character.
Fine, I'll wear my fursuit for the trial instead then
It's not about anyone being a scalie, it's a cross between "I'm supposed to be reading the text here, take this seriously" and "modernity means we don't use powdered wigs anymore"
I gotta admit this got a chuckle out of me, I'd allow it.
do watermark your legal pdfs with purple dragons in suits
How else am I supposed to waste color toner so I can overbill my clients?
I’m genuinely surprised that corporations haven’t started sponsoring defendants through watermarking their company logos on legal briefings.
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So certain lawsuits won't be possible anymore because advertisers don't like to be associated with that kind of content?
I honestly think it's pretty funny.
I like these guys.
I would not mind if they toned it down to what other people do for a watermark. As in: if you really look for it, it is noticeable, but it does not obstruct actual contents, or makes it harder to read.
And if they don't want it to be copied or scanned, just drop in a few Eurions.
Is it just me, or it kinda sounds like they don't want to prococess a complaint? A warning not to do that again would be enough, IMO, given it seems like there are no rules prohibiting this.
Please keep your weird stuff private, furries/scalies.
If you think that is weird, you must be celibate or something, lol.
If you don't think it's weird to draw funny cartoon animals all over official documents, and somewhat attempt to guess people's marital status out of nowhere when they do, you might be a bit weird.
Celebacy has nothing to do with marital status, lol. You can marry and never fuck.
Calling someone weird because of something harmless simply because it isn't the norm, now that's weird.
It is weird given the context
While I do agree with the sentiment, I don't agree that this qualifies as weird.
