Easily digestible tech news... http://www.techdirt.com/ en-us http://www.techdirt.com/images/td-88x31.gifhttp://www.techdirt.com/ Fri, 28 Oct 2011 17:31:00 PDT Mike Masnick http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111026/02180816516/news-agency-seems-to-think-it-can-copyright-hells-angels-logo.shtml http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20111026/02180816516/news-agency-seems-to-think-it-can-copyright-hells-angels-logo.shtml the story itself is meaningless here, but what caught Tremblay's attention was that the image at the top, of the Hells Angels' logo, appears to have a © notice claiming that the logo's copyright is held by the news agency Agence QMI: That, of course, is a form of copyfraud, but since no one ever seems to get accused of such things, and the courts don't seem to care, news agencies and others can get away with such false copyright claims.

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