Thursday, December 13, 2007

Does Charles Johnson Have a Copyright on the Killian Memo Forgeries?

In the latest epidose in the war of words between Little Green Footballs and Gates of Vienna. Charles Johnson demanded that GoV remove his 'copyrighted' image of the forged Killian memo.

Before I say this, I want to make it clear that I am not denigrating Charles' brilliant contributions in unmasking the Killian memo forgeries. But Charles do you really have a copyright for the forged memo? Just because you showed how they can be easily replicated in Microsoft Word doesn't give you a copyright. If anyone has such a copyright, it is whoever forged them. Or can anyone have a valid claim to a copyright of a forgery? I doubt it.

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