{"id":230138,"date":"2010-01-26T05:33:50","date_gmt":"2010-01-26T10:33:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2010-01-26T05:33:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-26T10:33:50","slug":"google-deletes-aboriginal-flag-after-copyright-dispute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/230138","title":{"rendered":"Google Deletes Aboriginal Flag After Copyright Dispute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 11 year-old &#8220;Doodle 4 Google&#8221; winner has seen her artwork changed by the search giant after the Aboriginal flag it features was the subject of a copyright claim by its creator.<span id=\"more-1430\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/media\/doodle4googlesmall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/media\/doodle4googlesmall.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"doodle4googlesmall\" width=\"200\" height=\"128\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1432\" \/><\/a>To celebrate Australia Day, Google invited people to enter artwork for their 2009 &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com.au\/doodle4google\/\">Doodle 4 Google<\/a>&#8221; competition.<\/p>\n<p>The winner was 12-year-old Jessie Du, whose artwork adorns Google&#8217;s Australian homepage today.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly her work has now been graphically adjusted due to a copyright dispute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You may have noticed that the Google Doodle on the homepage today is slightly different to Jessie&#8217;s original entry, because that one contained copyright imagery that we weren&#8217;t able to publish on the homepage today,&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/google-au.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/happy-australia-day.html\">said<\/a> Google product marketing manager Katharina Friedrich.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/media\/doodle4google.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\/media\/doodle4google.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"doodle4google\" width=\"347\" height=\"392\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1433\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The problem lies with the inclusion of the Aboriginal flag in the center of the artwork, notably missing in the adapted version in the second image you see above.<\/p>\n<p>Harold Thomas, who designed the flag as a symbol of unity and identity for the Aboriginal people, refused to give Google permission to reproduce the design without payment.<\/p>\n<p>Article from: <a href=\"http:\/\/freakbits.com\">FreakBits<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 11 year-old &#8220;Doodle 4 Google&#8221; winner has seen her artwork changed by the search giant after the Aboriginal flag it features was the subject of a copyright claim by its creator. To celebrate Australia Day, Google invited people to enter artwork for their 2009 &#8220;Doodle 4 Google&#8221; competition. The winner was 12-year-old Jessie Du, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4088,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4088"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}