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This article by Noam Cohen describes the controversy over the use of public photos on flickr. Flickr is a website used to share images with family and friends, which is now being used by company's and site's selling images without the approval of their owners. One example was Virgin Mobile's use of a picture of Alison Chang, a 15 year old, in one of their campaigns without her knowledge. The picture was under the protection of a creative commons that allowed it to be used for commercial use, making this issue more about privacy than about copyright. Virgin Mobile responded that they were "promoting creative freedom and didn't do anything wrong."

Shepherd Fairey 's (who did the famous campaign picture of Obama) website.

Using various forms of media (videos, pictures, psuedomagazines, phones, cartoons, etc.), this campaign will " do anything to make you aware of the signs of Stroke."

Anything wrong in this picture? Hmmm...the powers of Photoshop.

Honda has signed on as exclusive automotive sponsor of Walt Disney Pictures' "High School Musical 3: Senior Year."

Picture of McCain-Obama face off with Bush cheering. The media has really turned this election into a "fear" and "joke" game!

Tons of photoshopped pictures...

Searchme lets you see what you're searching for. As you start typing, categories appear that relate to your query. Choose a category, and you'll see pictures of web pages that answer your search. You can review these pages quickly to find just the information you're looking for, before you click through.

Click on Portfolio, open an image from the gallery, move the mouse onto the picture.

"Computer scientists and policy experts say that ... innocuous bits of self-revelation can increasingly be collected and reassembled by computers to help create a picture of a person's identity, sometimes down to the Social Security number."

In two years of global warfare, America had yet to see almost any pictures of dead Americans.

Jon Stewart on pictures of war

Date issued: January 7, 2010. An article from Law Vibe. Written by C.C. at International Law News/Lawyer Lifestyle. The article was written about what in the writer's opinion were the top ten biggest copyright infringement lawsuits between 2000 and 2009. Cases such as "Napster shuts down", "Apple sues Pystar", and UMG and Viacom take on Veoh and Youtube" lead the article. A reoccurring theme in the business of copyright lawsuits seems to be illegal file sharing online. Many websites that provided options for illegally downloading music have been sued or shut down over the years, including Napster and Pirate Bay. Modeling agencies such as Perfect 10 sued Google over copyrighted pictures of their models showing up online, the courts however ruled this fair use and the case has since been closed. This article shows a brief history of how copyrighting has become a central legal issue over the past decade and how various companies and defendants have dealt with the cases presented to them.

Really cool, scary photoshop (The shark one is fake, by the way. Terrifying, but fake.)

funny photoshop play This would be another example of a meme. I hope no one feels as if this is a racial or otherwise abrasive. I would hate it if I knew the kid, but is the internet hs made him some random kid...yes? Google "Looter Guy" for another example of photoshop meme creation.