Was it an actual image or a link to one?

It was in a food thread in the Pub. People posted pictures of beer, pizza, etc. It was the spaghetti picture from some Scandinavian country that got tagged.

That Scandanavian must love his spagetti picture a lot to bother following it around like that. lolls

Was this the guy?

isn't he a board member

I don't have to worry about mine. It dates to the 14th century. No copyrights there.

The bloke in my signature and avatar is dead so....

The doesn't really make a difference. I assume he wasn't the photographer. And even if he was, the rule for copyright is either 70 years after the death of the creator (photographer, author, composer, songwriter, etc.) or 95 years after the publication, whichever is the longest.

Edit: I assume that the man in the picture is Derrida, who died in 2004.

Not in the US.

The citation he gave is practically a word for word citation from the Sonny Bono Act of 1998.

"I got you babe"?

Sonny and Cher?

I think the copyright holder, the trademark holder, the patent holder -- all those individuals are concerned about having their respective Idea/Product
-- being altered without permission
-- being used en mass by the masses

In reverse order, two quick examples come to mind:
Xerox probably lost their trademark to their name Xerox because it became a household word, and that household usage was not or could not be -- challenged by the trademark owner.
George Beverley Shea wrote the author of How Great Thou Art to get the author's permission to change two words. If memory serves me: words became worlds and mighty became rolling. A little grudgingly, however, permission was granted and the rest is history.

I popped on today and it looks like all my past posts were deleted? Did something happen? Now I am getting a "General Error"?

There was a board server transfer that apparently didn't go quite smoothly. Things were lost. There are still on-going issues. I'm not sure they really know what the exact problem is.