US buys up all satellite war images

From: Russell McOrmond <russell _-at-_ flora.ca>
To: No DMCA in Canada <canada-dmca-opponents (at) flora.org>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 10:43:06 -0400 (EDT)

  Older story, but yet another case where copyright law is being used by
government to bypass other more democratically ballanced laws:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4278871,00.html

US buys up all satellite war images
Wednesday October 17, 2001

  The Pentagon has spent millions of dollars to prevent western media from
  seeing highly accurate civilian satellite pictures of the effects of
  bombing in Afghanistan, it was revealed yesterday.



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