Refugees

[Colonel Hogan]

"...this particular image was copyrighted by the photographer."

“This was six years ago when there were no Syrian refugees at the time, and it was never done with the intention of spreading a political message,” Kittos told the BBC.

"I did not give the Trump campaign approval to use the photo."

“The picture was lifted from my Flickr account without permission. I don’t approve of its use by Mr. Trump or his politics."

Kittos himself is a refugee, whose family fled Cyprus during Turkish occupation in 1974, when he was 6.

“I would never approve the use of this image against refugees."

- David Kittos, U.K.-based photographer

https://thinkprogress.org/skittles-photo-trump-jr-refugee-photographer-22d26f36df1d

http://www.latimes.com/nation/polit...e-doing-things-with-1474409470-htmlstory.html

You're way late to the party. Re-read my exchanges with Phrodeau along with the cited links. ALL of the issues you've raised have been dealt with.

 

[phrodeau]

"Public domain" was a technically inaccurate usage on my part. The Creative Common license is what governs, and as my previous post of the 2008 court case aptly demonstrates, the license was in place prior to the posting of the Skittles photo in 2010.

It would have been nice if the Trump campaign had credited the photographer, but even that might not have been required under the following license term:



In the United States, such an applicable exception or limitation includes "fair use," which typically includes court review of the following four elements:



Of those four elements, the use of a pedestrian photograph of a plain bowl of Skittles candy by a nonprofit political campaign to make an "educational allegorical statement" about alleged dangerous immigration policy would seem to favor a finding of fair use by a court of law -- particularly since such use would seem not to adversely impact the potential marketability or value of the photograph. If anything, the additional publicity photographer Kittos has now enjoyed may only increase that value.

But, hey, congratulations. It only took you three follow up posts to your original irrelevant bitching about lack of permission and paid compensation to finally find the one ARGUABLY RELEVANT objection to the Trump campaign's use of the photograph -- lack of attribution.

That's it. Was it worth it? Do you really think you saved face by going to the mat over such an incredibly trivial matter?

Do you really need to be reminded that the damage to the Trump cause lies more in the absurd way that they actually USED the photo rather than the thoroughly legal way in which they obtained it????

I had no idea that political campaigns are non-profit. I must straight away amend my tax returns.

Funny, I thought that the whole IRS kerfuffle three years ago was over political organizations claiming to be non-profits.

 

[Colonel Hogan]

I had no idea that political campaigns are non-profit. I must straight away amend my tax returns.

Funny, I thought that the whole IRS kerfuffle three years ago was over political organizations claiming to be non-profits.

Jesus fuck, you are incorrigible.

Political campaigns are 527 organizations under the federal tax code. As such, they may have taxable income and filing requirements. The fact that they are not "non-profit organizations" as defined under 501(c)(3) does NOT make them "for profit" organizations distributing dividends to share holders or issuing company stock. Read this IRS link https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/political-organizations/taxable-income-political-organizations and please pay special attention to those funds defined under "exempt function income."

I certainly don't think that the "non-profit" stipulation of the "fair use doctrine" is strictly dependent on the specific tax classification status of an organization under the Tax Code. I strongly suspect it is merely whether that organization makes a "profit" and/or whether the USE of the copyrighted material is for an educational, not-for-profit purpose.

But since you are one of the few Litsters here who apparently does occasional research (something for which I should give you more props and less bitching) why don't you check that out for us and let us know.

 

[Aglaopheme]

https://www.google.com/amp/www.alja...gypt-coast-160921130002889.html?client=safari

At least 29 people have died and 150 rescued after a boat carrying hundreds of refugees capsized off Egypt's coast.

State news agency MENA reported on Wednesday that the boat capsized off the coast of Kafr al-Sheikh, about 140km north of Cairo, and that search teams were looking for more survivors.

 

[Hard_Rom]

If for no other reason.

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[BotanyBoy]

If for no other reason.

http://3.bp.********.com/-CGP1LauHA2s/VlmLxc11B6I/AAAAAAAAK_I/UwD_p-NKwBo/s1600/alan-kurdi.jpg

How many will you be housing???