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Flickr Censors A Photographer's Plea

Bananatree3 writes "Popular Icelandic photographer and art-student Rebekka Guoleifsdottir has been targeted by Flickr for posting a plea for help in a theft case involving an online retailer selling copycat art. She requested that people send the retailer letters concerning the issue, and in response her original post was promptly deleted. It is still ironically available on Yahoo cache. In the end it appears that the retailer had been duped by a rogue art dealer under the title "Wild Aspects and Panoramics LTD". However, Flickr seems to have overstepped its bounds in deleting this post." This whole case brings back up the messy issues surrounding content ownership in this strange new world of a services based internet.

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  1. Re:Rebekka's post by SlayerofGods · · Score: 2, Funny

    My icelandic lawyer could do nothing else, so i was stuck with a bill
    Well there's the problem; you need a sleazy American lawyer. Those guys can get blood from a stone ;)

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  2. Just a guess? by hkgroove · · Score: 2, Funny

    Was it todd?

  3. Re:Overstepped??!! by nametaken · · Score: 4, Funny

    This doesn't happen often, but I think this /. article is now officially dead in the first 3 comments. :)

    Everything below is just fluff.

  4. Re:Overstepped??!! by GreyPoopon · · Score: 4, Funny

    This doesn't happen often, but I think this /. article is now officially dead in the first 3 comments. :)

    Well, if you want to end the conversation, at least do it right: mumble mumble mumble Nazi mumble mumble....
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  5. Re:Overstepped??!! by sammy+baby · · Score: 1, Funny

    Wait, we still have a ton of pro forma comments to get through! Here's my contribution:

    Hey! I'm a Nazi, you insensitive clod!