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16. With attribution, a news article can publish any image without a release (17 US Code § 107)

Reply to jberryhill (Reply #8)

Sun Jan 18, 2015, 07:10 PM

Jan 2015

But newspapers, magazines, etc., are not obligated to publish anything. "The First Amendment" applies only to individual speech and is not something that compels anyone to do or say or publish anything they don't want to.

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New ‘Charlie Hebdo’ editor scolds US media: When you blur our cover, ‘you blur out democracy’ [View all] kpete Jan 2015 OP

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yep... free speech in the form of cowardice n/t ProdigalJunkMail Jan 2015 #6

Was CH handing out copyright licenses? jberryhill Jan 2015 #8

you go right ahead and believe that is why they did it... ProdigalJunkMail Jan 2015 #9

Did I say that? jberryhill Jan 2015 #13

With attribution, a news article can publish any image without a release (17 US Code § 107) PSPS Jan 2015 #16

That is not correct. Ms. Toad Jan 2015 #19

Sorry, but one sees this all the time. PSPS Jan 2015 #21

Seeing it all the time, Ms. Toad Jan 2015 #22

Yes, but obviously that's only a defence of legalising it, not doing it. Donald Ian Rankin Jan 2015 #10

Well here it is unblurred TexasProgresive Jan 2015 #11

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The media decided to dump on democracy, secularism, freedom of religon, and insult the citizenship. Agnosticsherbet Jan 2015 #4

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I wouldn't have Charlie Hebdo in my home because I think it's crude and stupid. Brigid Jan 2015 #7

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This is the same American media that includes Bill O'Reilly JonLP24 Jan 2015 #17

Fuck him Egnever Jan 2015 #18

Hence my response that I am not Charlie Hebdo. n/t Ms. Toad Jan 2015 #20