Archive for November, 2006

Artist Copyright Buffoonery

Monday, November 6th, 2006

One of the great things about Andy Warhol was the way he altered iconic imagery and made it his own. Warhol’s subject material was often covered by copyright, but of course he changed the source material in such a way that it made it his own. Anyone else could do the same thing […]

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Michael Crook, the DMCA, and (hopefully) the straw that broke the camel’s back

Thursday, November 2nd, 2006

For starters, go here and here for the back story (and Fark’s take here).  Briefly, a web opportunist named Michael Crook sent a DMCA takedown notice to 10 Zen Monkeys‘ webhost demanding removal of an image of his face.  The cited article is here.  Said image was from Mr. Crook’s appearance on the Fox News […]

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