Normally, the Boston Herald, and other papers, relies on the Associated Press for information. This week, the roles got reversed as an AP story referred to prior reporting by the Herald. On Tuesday, Bostonist noted a Herald story that said the federal government sent economic stimulus checks to Bay State prisoners. The AP reported this on Wednesday night and noted "The Boston Herald first reported that the checks were sent to inmates." A Social Security Administration audit is underway.
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Even since an AP article started circulating a few days ago, Newton resident Kelly Niknejad's Iran news site Tehran Bureau has been getting new attention. Billing itself as "an independent source of news on Iran and the Iranian diaspora," the site features press, commentary, dispatches, features, and more, all designed to keep readers abreast of events in Iran. Niknejad has insider sources in the country who help provide information that she and other contributors turn into fascinating stories on Iran. The largely donation-funded site is worth a read if you'd like to keep up with a country that many U.S. papers no longer send correspondents to, or follow Tehran Bureau on Twitter if that's more your style
- Massachusetts has the second-lowest obesity rate in the nation at 21.2%, which still seems too high. [WCVB]
- Boston firefighters are defying Boston Fire Department orders to volunteer to staff three stations. [Boston Herald]
Our old friend, street artist slash vandalist slash conspiracy victim Shepard Fairey speaks out on his own site and in the Huffington Post about his alleged copyright infringement in using an AP photo to produce his now-infamous posters of Barack Obama. Fairey continually uses the word "reference," and points to great artists who worked from photos. However, Fairey doesn't clarify how he used the photo: was he just glancing at it as he worked, or did he (as it almost looks) just Photoshop the original image to come up with "his" artwork? And if he did "just" Photoshop the image, is that sufficient artistic contribution to constitute originality?
Alleged plagiarist/vandalist, would-be DJ, and street artist Shepard Fairey has creatively turned the tables on the AP, preemptively suing the organization for his supposed appropriation of an AP image in the now-infamous Barack Obama "Hope" poster. The AP had asked Fairey to pony up for use of Obama's face; in response, Fairey and his lawyers (including Anthony T. Falzone of the Fair Use Project) claim Fairey created a “stunning, abstracted and idealized visual image that created powerful new meaning and conveys a radically different message" from the AP photo. Will "fair use" be known as "Fairey use" from now on? We eagerly await a decision.
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