Silliness in Washington

[unixronin]

It appears the FBI sent Wikipedia a cease-and-desist letter for displaying an image of the FBI seal on the Wikipedia main article page about the FBI, citing a law intended to prohibit use of the Seal for profit or for misrepresentation of identity.

It also appears that Wikipedia's response was appropriately snarky.

(Via rosencrantz23)

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[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

He's a good speaker, too -- I got to see him once at the UT College of Law on copyright and intellectual property. (I'm not a lawyer or a law student, but I work at UT and the lecture was open to the public.)