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Monday, February 4, 2013

postheadericon President Obama Is Not Impressed With Your Right To Modify His Photos

You may have heard that weekend, President Obama released a photo taken with him last week and won Olympic gymnast McKayla Maroney, making "not impressed" pose:
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If you are not on your memes, you can catch up with the "McKayla Maroney not impressed meme" here and here. The photo of the president by laying meme-tastic generated a lot of buzz, the tale becomes obvious that during his visit to the White House, the president called aside and said: "I almost do what the least one face once a day. "
cute. And, of course, very happy to have a president not so disconnected from reality that he is not aware of Internet memes.



Except ... as attorney Venkat Balasubramani quickly noticed, use restrictions are somewhat questionable. Below the photo on Flickr, it is said:
The official photo of the White House is made available only for publication by news organizations and / or printing needs of the subject (s) of Photography . The picture can not be manipulated in any way and can not be used in commercial products or policies, advertisements, emails, products, promotions that in any way suggests approval or endorsement of the President, the first Family, or the White House.

This is, of course, is not a new thing. In fact, we reported the exact phrase in the diet of the White House Flickr three years ago. As we noted at the time, there was some controversy when the White House began using Flickr in the first days of the Obama administration, the federal government and all work is created automatically in the public domain. Yet Flickr was not an option "public domain" license. In response, Flickr actually created a special license to indicate that the work was a work of the U.S. government. This license states that "no person may, without restriction under copyright laws of the United States ... to create derivative works."


Yet the White House is ignoring what the license says that the photograph showing "can not be manipulated in any way." This is obviously false before the law and in a manner copyfraud because they are excessive claims rights.


But in this case, is particular
ridiculous, because the correctly title
the "McKayla not impressed" meme has become so popular was memegeneration put his face in disgust several other images.
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