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Lawsuit against Creative Commons
Creative Commons was dropped from the lawsuit filed against them (and Virgin Mobile) in September. Apparently the problem was that a photographer posted a picture of a minor on Flickr with a CC-Attribution license license, and Virgin picked the photo up for an ad campaign. (Amusingly, Virgin apparently failed the Attribution requirement as well! But: that’s not the topic of the lawsuit.)
The lawsuit is about whether Virgin and the photographer violated the privacy rights of the minor,…
