Who Asked Flickr to Take Down Obama Joker Photo?


	Who Asked Flickr to Take Down Obama Joker Photo?

n2sooners

8-26-2009 4:57 PM

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flickr, joker, obama, photography, politics, time

n2sooners says:

Time, DC, and the photographer who took the picture all deny filing a complaint.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/21c50872-f4fc-4276-9bc0-bdece7ea2b8d/5F38FD6F-066E-4ADC-B45B-8C5D6EBCD7F9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/26/who-asked-flickr-take-down-obama-joker-photo" href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/26/who-asked-flickr-take-down-obama-joker-photo" style="font-size: 11px;">newsbusters.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/26/who-asked-flickr-take-down-obama-joker-photo">As NewsBusters <A href="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/19/photo-sharing-website-flickr-takes-down-obama-joker-poster" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" linkindex="41">reported</A> last Wednesday, the photo sharing website Flickr removed the Obama Joker picture that was later transformed into posters showing up in cities around the country.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/26/who-asked-flickr-take-down-obama-joker-photo">At the time, Flickr claimed it had acted  on advice of counsel due to legal issues involving copyright infringement.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/26/who-asked-flickr-take-down-obama-joker-photo">Yet, <A href="http://thomashawk.com/2009/08/so-if-time-magazine-dc-comics-and-platon-didnt-send-flickr-a-dmca-takedown-notice-over-the-obama-joker-image-who-did.html" bitly="BITLY_PROCESSED" linkindex="42">according to</A> Thomas Hawk, none of the conceivably interested parties filed a complaint with Flickr</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/26/who-asked-flickr-take-down-obama-joker-photo">Hawk contacted the photo's creator Firas Alkhateeb to see if he knew who filed the request:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2009/08/26/who-asked-flickr-take-down-obama-joker-photo">“I actually don’t know who filed the DMCA notice,” wrote Alkhateeb to me in an email, “but I figured it must be from Time magazine, since it’s their image. 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