Flickr Yanks Image of Obama As Joker

Posted by timothy on Wednesday August 19, 2009 @06:49AM from the such-treatment-is-only-for-the-old-boss dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An interesting article yesterday about the unmasking of the recent creator of the controversial and iconic Obama/Joker image that has been popping up around Los Angeles with the word Socialism under it. The Los Angeles Times has identified the images' creator as Firas Alkhateeb. Even more interesting though is the fact that after getting over 20,000 hits on the image at Flickr, Flickr removed the image from Alkateeb's photostream, citing 'copyright' concerns. The image in question is clearly both an independent derivative work and unquestionably a parody of the President and Time Magazine which would be covered under fair use. It has appeared on many other sites without issue on the Internet." According to the same reader, "Flickr also recently nuked a user's entire photostream over negative comments on President Obama's official photostream."

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Re:We're at war, remember! by Bodero · 2009-08-19 09:34 · Score: 1, Redundant

Dissent is patriotic. Nancy Pelosi encouraged us to take it to our congressmen at town hall meetings. Hillary Clinton told us we were Americans.
If it's good for W., then it's good for O. If you're going to whine about it, why did you think it was OK to give the People this power? Did you think the President would always be a guy you disapproved of?