The US Copyright Office has clarified its position about photographs taken by animals after a row between Wikipedia and a photographer over a ‘monkey selfie’.
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Wikipedia, the internet encyclopedia that is used by millions of people each day, has been suffering from intermittent downtime over the last 24 hours.
Art critics have been less than impressed by George W. Bush’s exhibition of his paintings of world leaders, but even more interesting is that the sharp-eyed Greg Allen noticed that the paintings have taken more than a little inspiration from the top images of the leaders on a Google Images search.
Alongside major issues like the need for an influx of new contributors from more diverse backgrounds, one of the lesser-known challenges Wikipedia faces is the rise of “socking”, or sock puppetry
The “Direction Centrale du Renseignement Intéieur” (Central Directorate of Interior Intelligence, DCRI), a French intelligence agency decided suddenly that an article about a military base contained classified information, and wanted it deleted.