Time Denies Issuing DMCA Over Obama Joker Image 324
An anonymous reader writes "Last week Slashdot posted on the Flickr censorship case where Flickr removed the controversial Obama/Joker image from their site. A representative from Flickr claimed that they only removed the image because they received a DMCA takedown notice over the image and then accused the press and blogosphere of being 'makey uppey,' subsequently locking the thread where Flickr users were complaining about the takedown. But now it appears that Time, DC Comics, and the photographer of the original photograph used to make the parody image are all denying having issued Flickr a takedown notice. Flickr was asked who issued the notice by the Los Angeles Times and told the Times that they were not able to provide that information. The original artist says Flickr has not told him who filed it either, despite the fact that Yahoo has in the past provided the information to people when DMCA takedown requests are issued. So if Time didn't file the DMCA notice, and DC Comics didn't file the DMCA notice, and the original photographer did not file the DMCA notice, then who exactly did?"
Could it be... (Score:5, Funny)
Mabye it was Barack Obama?
The obvious answer (Score:5, Funny)
So if Time didn't file the DMCA notice, and DC Comics didn't file the DMCA notice, and the original photographer did not file the DMCA notice, then who exactly did?
Batman?
Re:Could it be... (Score:5, Funny)
You mean Barack Hussein Obama?
Wow, that's some URL. (Score:5, Funny)
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 [thomashawk.com]
I look forward to the day when an entire Slashdot submission is just a blog's URL.
The guys with Tin Foil Hats maybe? (Score:5, Funny)
I admit (Score:5, Funny)
Oops, sorry about that. (Score:2, Funny)
One question.... (Score:5, Funny)
Why so serious?
Re:Could it be... (Score:3, Funny)
Why the fuck was that modded flamebait? He was just trying to distinguish the president from all of the other Barack Obamas out there.
Sheesh, man. Y'all and Flickr are a bunch of fuckin' Philistines.
-- Ethanol-fueled
Re:The obvious answer (Score:5, Funny)
*reads the first two posts*
Oh my god! Barack Obama is Batman's secret identity!
This explains why he got to keep his "Blackberry", because it's actually his Batberry! ... I'll let myself out.
DuPont? (Score:1, Funny)
My bet is on DuPont. After all, pixels in the image use the exact same colours as paints produced by DuPont. Coincidence? I think not.
- RG>
Re:Could it be... (Score:3, Funny)
Mabye it was Barack Obama?
No clearly, this is the work of The Joker..... To the BATCAVE!
Re:The obvious answer (Score:3, Funny)
You should not obsess so much about the president's berries.
Re:The obvious answer (Score:1, Funny)
No, it had to be Cesar Romero [wikipedia.org], the only authentic Joker. Great Cesar's ghost! Now git offa my lawn.
Re:The obvious answer (Score:3, Funny)
Well I'll be honest, it's the Batgonads I'm obsessed with.
Re:The obvious answer (Score:5, Funny)
*reads the first two posts*
Oh my god! Barack Obama is Batman's secret identity!
This explains why he got to keep his "Blackberry", because it's actually his Batberry! ... I'll let myself out.
I've never seen Barack Obama and Batman in the same room . . .
Re:The obvious answer (Score:2, Funny)
I've never seen Barack Obama and Batman in the same room . . .
Ahhhh well I've never seen Barack Obama and HITLER in the same room so what are you suggesting?
Re:The obvious answer (Score:5, Funny)
I've never seen myself and Batman in the same room.
OMG!
I'm Batman. Why didn't I see it before? It explains so much.
Re:Could it be... (Score:5, Funny)
Y'all and Flickr are a bunch of fuckin' Philistines.
You racist!!! Some of my best friends are Philistines!
Why the Change In Policy (Score:3, Funny)
My guess is that Time's legal team or publishing house or right hand knee jerk issued a DMCA while the people answering the phones and writing articles had no idea bout it.
If that's the case, then why didn't Yahoo tell them? (As the summary states they've done in the past.)
Personally, I'm wondering if someone at Yahoo decided to take it down because it personally offended them, and claimed DMCA to cover their asses?
Exactly, the fact that they will not tell anyone, including the actual rights-owner who issued the request is automatically fishy. I see two basic possibilities:
[You will note that I said there were two possibilities and listed three. Since there is some overlap between them, I took the average number of unique possibilities. It is not because I am too lazy to go back and edit the word "two" after coming up with a third bullet point. That would be ridiculous.]
Re:I admit (Score:1, Funny)
Back off a little. The post was obviously half -"s"-ed.
Time issued the takedown notice (Score:4, Funny)
Yes, you.
Couldn't be.
Then who?
The photographer <strike>stole the cookie from the cookie jar</strike> issued the takedown notice
Who, me?
Yes, you.
Couldn't be
Then who?
etc.
Re:The obvious answer (Score:1, Funny)
That also explains why he doesn't show his real birth certificate. It turns out his real name is Bruce Hussein Obama Wayne and he was born in Gotham City, not Hawaii. So everyone would know he was really Batman if they saw his birth certificate.
I want to know how he ditches the Secret Service long enough to make it to the bat cave though.
Re:Well.... (Score:1, Funny)
Well its not as one sided as you think. Take, for example the sites such as rapidshare and megaupload that routinely share terrabytes of copyrighted material.
If you find your copyrighted content on those sites, you can email them a DMCA takedown that MUST include your phone number, your physical address and other contact details.
Note that megaupload do not provide everyone with their direct contact number, and the people actually uploading the copyrighted content are 100% anonymous.
If you are luck,y after 48 hours the site might remove the content, taking no action whatsoever against the uploader.
Within a few hours, the copyrighted content is uploaded yet again, and the whole process starts again.
All the time, the copyright holder is the one who is giving out their personal information, and the hoster and the uploader remain safely immue to any possible comeback.
nice business model, and one that the DMCA does almost nothing to impact whatsoever.
People who criticise the DMCA for being too harsh have likely never used it, or been on the receiving end. Its a very weak piece of law in cases such as these. (The DRM-related aspects of the law are different, and total overkill however).
Could this be the end of the DMCA? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:The obvious answer (Score:5, Funny)
*reads this and the previous parallel reply*
Oh my God!
Batman is Barack Obama, sacdelta on /., and HITLER!!!!
Re:Could it be... (Score:5, Funny)
You racist!!! Some of my best friends are Philistines!
Oh please, you can't call a fan club a 'race'. Besides, he's been terrible ever since he left Genesis, so I see no reason to defend them anyway.
Re:The guys with Tin Foil Hats maybe? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes, I'm sure Flickr has a full-time staff of people whose job it is to sift through random photos all day long, looking for ones that fall under several categories of things to get politically upset about, e.g.:
After all, they are out to get you. BOO!
Re:Who Cares? (Score:1, Funny)
No the left has noticed that the dog whistle racist crap coming out of prominent parts of the Republican party is in fact racist. Glen Beck is a racist and an idiot. And he has alot of Racist idiot Republican followers.
We also know what people mean when they bring a gun to a political rally about health care. We know what they are saying even if is clouded behind fire-arms and coded messages. They want to kill the President. We have seen enough dead Presidents to know what these people are promoting.
Personally, I don't give a shit about flikr or the jackass that filed the DMCA notice. It's not censorship. The picture is widely available and nobody is trying ot stop that. Nobody that matters cares. This is just stupidity.
Re:Could it be... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The guys with Tin Foil Hats maybe? (Score:2, Funny)
Didnt you hear? Reality has a liberal bias. No wonder the media is left leaning!
Re:The obvious answer (Score:2, Funny)
HITLER IS BATMAN!
Re:The obvious answer (Score:5, Funny)
Out but not in.
Re:The obvious answer (Score:2, Funny)
I've never seen myself and God in the same room. Oh my...
Re:The guys with Tin Foil Hats maybe? (Score:3, Funny)
That's because unlike Europe, the US doesn't use metric left.
Re:Could it be... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The obvious answer (Score:3, Funny)
It explains so much.
the fact that you live in a dank cave surrounded by computer equipment, sporting sweatpants that fit like leotards, and communicating to the world via a pseudonym?