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Flickr Yanks Image of Obama As Joker
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."
Well lest see where can we start-
"redistribute the wealth"
"health care for all, even for those not legally here"
"census will count illegals"
"we dont want to be in the car biz, but we are.....and are now getting into the healthcare biz"
he is the classic 60's derivative Marxist Socialist infused with some closet black militancy born of phony christian black so called "churches" and the nation of islam garbage all wrapped up as one dysfunctional pile o dung. their theme is "its whitey" and guess what, it aint whitey today, sorry yesterdays foil is history
USS Obama is taking on water and is listing
take it to your lawyer, and he'll explain it to you using hand puppets and bright crayon drawings.
Awesome. You just made my day!
MCSE? No, sir...I don't do Windows. Yes, I am an idealist. What's your point?
That is because most web sites, newspapers, Wiki sites, forums, blogs, magazines, and other media has a liberal bias. They consider a neutral point of view to be the liberal one.
Which is why they can bash Bush as much as they want, and not even remove the pictures citing copyright violations, because Bush is a Neocon/Conservative, and when people do the same to Obama, obviously it is handled differently.
It is unethical, but not unlawful, it is discrimination, but discrimination by political beliefs is not covered by the US Constitution. It violates free speech and freedom of expression, but Flikr is a private company so they can act like Communists or Fascists or whatever and censor as they see fit.
Expect to see more of this type of behavior as long as a Liberal is President. Even if Obama's ratings drop as low as Bush, they will still pull out pictures of him on Flikr and other web sites that bash him.
Suddenly Conservatives, Neocons, Libertarians, and other right-wingers are going to lose a lot of rights, including Talk Radio and Cable TV shows with the new Czars that have been appointed. Russia got rid of their Czars, but in the USA we keep getting more and more of them, answerable to nobody except maybe Obama, in violation of the checks and balances our founding fathers set.
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The mods especially love posts about the National Socialist party.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
Yes, you can parody a public official, that doesn't mean you can use other peoples copyrighted material to make parody of something else.
This has been seen many, many time.
I don't think it should have been pulled, but that'e irrel;event. This isn't about Obama, its about a company affriad they are going to get sued by time or the MPAA.
It's a symptom of out of control copyright enforcement abuse.
I don't give a damn how someone parodies the President. Never have, never will.
"It can legitimately be seen as the government controlling the access to negative speech."
only uf there is some sort of person telling them to pull it.
You might want to study some cases and try to actually comprehend the linkis you posted. Item 3 definitely applies to TIME, and possible to the MPAA(Joker image)
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
While not nonprofit education, clearly the image qualifies on this point as fair use
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
Irrelevant to this issue.
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
A lot of Times material is used, as is the Joker. Had he changes it from TIME to LIME, that would ahve been different.
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
Both TIME and the MPAA can claim loss of market value; however I don't think it would be enough to qualify.
Let me be very clear. I believe it's fair use and should be allowed; however in out current copyright crazy enviroment, I can see Flickr's concern.
Don't muddy this issue by assuming its about how I may or may not feel about a specific person.
You can return to sucking Rush Limbaugh's dick now.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Republicans dont try to play the racist/sexist card. In fact, in most if not all debates it is the progressive-mindset that tries to silence opposition by declaring it illegal. Even going back to evolution vs intelligent design in schools, all the conservatives I have talked to would be fine with presentation of both. It is only the liberals that claim the sole right to be heard.