Bernie Sanders Campaign Demands Wikipedia Take Down Images of Its Campaign Logos

Reason ^ | January 15, 2016 | Ed Krayewski

[Fasceto]

The editors of Wikipedia, the Internet’s largest free encyclopedia, often work to include as many images as they can without running afoul of copyright laws. That’s accomplished through the use of public domain images, user-generated images uploaded to the site, and applying the fair use doctrine.

Lawyers for Bernie Sanders’ insist the encyclopedia has run afoul of copyright law by using images of various Bernie Sanders campaign paraphernalia in articles about Sanders and his presidential campaign.

[JennysCool]

Sanders railing against Wikipedia? He’s even dumber than I thought.

[DesertRhino]

He must be a dimbulb. Publicity for free, in an election year. Yeah, we need him to run the economy.

[jonrick46]

This is one of the logos removed from Wikipedia:

[stocksthatgoup]

Bernie like all socialists wants to micromanage all speech and writings.

[pepsionice]

You guys don’t get it....Bernie is not there to win. He’s only supposed to show token activity against Hillary and prove that it’s still an open primary period. If he wins more than two or three primaries.....watch for him to accuse himself of greed, an affair or corruption....just to ensure Hillary wins in the end.

[PA Engineer]

Funny. Every time I see that logo I think of jock itch and athletes foot. I suppose it could also be heart burn. This election is going to be fun.

[CptnObvious]

Can we say Control Freak?

[LibWhacker]

Hammer and sickle, Bernie. Own it.

[Telepathic Intruder]

"We are socialists, we are enemies of today's capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are determined to destroy this system under all conditions."



This would be a great campaign poster for Bernie. It's helped other socialists in the past get elected, so I don't see why it can't work for him.

[fr_freak]

You guys don’t get it....Bernie is not there to win. He’s only supposed to show token activity against Hillary and prove that it’s still an open primary period.

It's amazing how paranoid the amorality of this current age has made us. Conspiracy theories abound because nobody trusts the government on anything anymore. In this case, however, it would be insane for Sanders to be a plant for Hillary - she's facing possible indictment (yeah, that doesn't mean anything but the word is out, at least), she's got health issues, she's old and ugly, and the truth is people just don't like her, not even Democrats. Obama got elected because Hillary wasn't popular enough to win the nomination against a nobody freshman senator (albeit a sort of black one). Sanders is running simply because the Dems are just that whacked out.

[Gene Eric]

A contradiction to communism — rights to property.

Sanders is one dumb #.

[Libloather]

[clearcarbon]

[4Liberty]

Bump!

[RginTN]

Bernie! I saw a a bernie sign in front of a house in my neighborhood this week. Sadly I live in the hippy area of my lib city...

[Cboldt]

-- If he wins more than two or three primaries.....watch for him to accuse himself of greed, an affair or corruption... --

That is so funny, and so true. Good belly laugh this morning.

[samtheman]

I dont see any images in the Bernie Sanders wikipedia article.

[OwenKellogg]

[Fresh Wind]

Burnout Sanders must be an evil capitalist, because only evil capitalists worry about copyright issues.

Progressives want everything to be free for the taking.