Terms of photo use: "Don't use our stuff to deceive or mislead others." http://gallery.hd.org/terms.html
NSA Prism logo is a copyright infringment
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Re: NSA Prism logo is a copyright infringment
#32Terms of photo use: "Don't use our stuff to deceive or mislead others." http://gallery.hd.org/terms.html
and also "Don't... be nasty to us"
Re: NSA Prism logo is a copyright infringment
#33I guess this means the original photographer is guilty of leaking a secret document to the enemy. Because the secret FISA order classifying this NSA content, by extension classifies the original work, and all documents that include it.
Re: NSA Prism logo is a copyright infringment
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right after that it says ‘© Author’, which links to a Terms page, which states “If you make money from using our stuff, share it with us!” and “You acknowledge the author, including in derivative works, if possible with a caption” and “You make an effort to contribute similar material of your own creation to the Web under similar terms, if and when you can.” http://gallery.hd.org/terms.html
The license has enough holes to drive a tank through. They're clearly not using the image to make money. Acknowledgement is done "if possible". Contributing is done "if and when you can". The "if possible" line is left up to the interpretation of the licensee (in this case, the NSA) and they can simply argue that it wasn't possible because the program was classified and including the name of a civilian who has no cle…
I agree, it’s all very wishy-washy and full of contradictory statements. My point was simply that there was more text than “Free to download and use”.
Re: NSA Prism logo is a copyright infringment
#35Reminds me of this great video: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat
Major oops, actually somehow I commented on the wrong thread! (hope I'm not the first in HN history to do that), how utterly bad it may look, too many HN tabs open I guess.
As stupid as it may sound, it was intended for this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5866837 anyone with mod permissions, please delete the my parent comment (and this one as well) oh, the shame :0
Re: NSA Prism logo is a copyright infringment
#36"Dear Mr. XXX, this is the NSA. We'd like to use the image we've found on your homepage as the logo for a secret massive surveillance and spying program called 'prism'. Could you please sign the attached 20 page license and send it back to us: NSA, Maryland. Thanks in advance, Mr Smith, Chief Officer for Domestic Affairs."
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