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There have been two interesting articles regarding copy right I want to discuss.
Article 1:
The investigative arm of the Homeland Security Department appears to be shutting down websites that facilitate copyright infringement.
Immigration and Customs
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This is obviously a PHOTO of the seal used in an article, just as is done with nearly every article ever, anywhere.
It does not purport to be official in any way, and does not infringe copyright.
By the same faux logic, you should be sued and shut down for using the screen capture you just used, and every article that uses a photo of someone or a corporate logo should suffer the same fate.
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You did something similar when you used a screencap - ie, another photo - of no less than three official government seals for your post.
So either you are right and it's all illegal or you're wrong.
Which is it?
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But it's clearly just a header photo, and not a very good one at that.
One would have to be pretty stupid to actually believe this were official.
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Because that's what we are discussing here. I see Center For American Progress use of the Presidential Seal as violating that law.
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" I see Center For American Progress use of" a low resolution photograph of "the Presidential Seal as violating that law."
Fixed it for you.
So again, either both are illegal or neither is.
You don't get to have your cake and eat it too.
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The fact that they used a PDF file (Portable Document Format) which could easily fall under the "other publication" since that is the purpose of PDF files, has more weight than my posting of the ICE webite denied pic. Mine is clearly a post of what the ICE link looks like. What they did is an attempt to look more offical. Why else would they use it like that?
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Much in the same way that your screencap of several official government seals above is not those seals, but a screencap of the takedown notice.
It is not used in such a way that it can credibly be considered an attempt at appearing official, much in the same way that your screencap is not intended to appear official.
Both are fair use.
Therefore the whole thing is clearly a pathetic and transparent partisan attempt to harm CfAP.
I'd wager that if I cared enough to look into the matter I'd find Beck, Breitbart, or some other punditard behind the attempt.
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How is putting the Seal (or the picture of it) on top of your reoport not an attempt to appear offical?
In fact, there is precedent for making the CfAp for removing the Seal from their PDF. in 2005 the Onion had to remove the Seal from their Parody's of the Presidential address.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion#U.S._Presidential_Seal_dispute
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You keep saying it looks official, however the repetition does not make it so.
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