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Yahoo! plays favorites when it comes to political images on Flickr?

Should political satire be censored by one of the largest photo-sharing websites on the planet? Although several political satires of a former president are easily findable, one was removed due to what Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) thinks is "copyright infringement." Regardless of your political stance, what does Yahoo! think it's doing by trying to be an information gatekeeper for material on its main photo site? Ever hear of fair use?

This irritated Valleywag's Ryan Tate, who said "a transformative political satire" should not be deleted by Flickr based on some loose understanding by Yahoo! and the folks who comb through Flickr's images looking for infringing and offending photos to delete from the site.

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