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igotthisguitar
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 Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:31 pm Post subject: China Invades Okinawa !!! |
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Well ... ummmm ... no, not really ... 
Japanese held over fake news site
Monday, November 28, 2005
TOKYO, Japan (AP) -- Police have arrested a former computer programmer for allegedly publishing a fabricated news article on a fake Yahoo Japan news Web site saying that China had invaded the Japanese island of Okinawa.
Tokyo Metropolitan Police department arrested Takahiro Yamamoto, 30, Monday on suspicion of violating patent laws, a police spokesman said on condition of anonymity, citing departmental policy.
He said Yamamoto allegedly accredited the fake article to Kyodo News Agency and published it on an Internet site that he had designed to look like Yahoo! Japan Corp's news site.
The story was written in Japanese with a dateline "America, Oct. 18 Kyodo" followed by a headline saying "Chinese Military invades Okinawa," the police said.
Police had confiscated Yamamoto's personal computer and analyzed the data stored in it.
Kyodo said it and Yahoo had filed complaints to police in October.
The Web site was accessed 66,000 times until it was taken down on October 19, Kyodo said, quoting police.
Sunnyvale, California-based Yahoo is one of the world's largest Internet portal operators, with some 345 million people using its mix of search engines, news sites and online shopping.
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/11/28/yahoo.okinawa.ap/index.html |
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Wrench
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 1:07 am Post subject: |
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| Good joke I guess. |
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Hollywoodaction
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 3:08 am Post subject: |
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| Patent laws have precedent over free speach? |
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Pligganease
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 3:27 am Post subject: |
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I think that the "patent" laws in Japan are also cover copyright laws, so by using a real news agency's name the author probably did infringe on the copyrighted name of the legitimate news agency.
I wouldn't think that any real news agency would want people crediting false news to their organization, thereby tarnishing their reputation. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 6:11 pm Post subject: |
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| Pligganease wrote: |
I think that the "patent" laws in Japan are also cover copyright laws, so by using a real news agency's name the author probably did infringe on the copyrighted name of the legitimate news agency.
I wouldn't think that any real news agency would want people crediting false news to their organization, thereby tarnishing their reputation. |
But it was a parody. Shouldn't that be a protected form of speech?
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Pligganease
Joined: 14 Sep 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| Pligganease wrote: |
I think that the "patent" laws in Japan are also cover copyright laws, so by using a real news agency's name the author probably did infringe on the copyrighted name of the legitimate news agency.
I wouldn't think that any real news agency would want people crediting false news to their organization, thereby tarnishing their reputation. |
But it was a parody. Shouldn't that be a protected form of speach? |
Sure. Yet, you can't slander a legitimate organization's good name when making up the fake news. If it looks fake and is easily discernable from the truth, it's OK. However, when it looks legitmate and makes no claims of falsehood whatsoever, it threatens the ability for all news reported by the Kyodo News Agency to be taken as the truth.
For example, if someone printed up a magazine that looked exactly like Time Magazine, and made it 100% authentic yet filled it with fake news, they would be arrested and sued in any western nation for copyright infringement. |
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Hollywoodaction
Joined: 02 Jul 2004
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:08 pm Post subject: |
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| Pligganease wrote: |
| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| Pligganease wrote: |
I think that the "patent" laws in Japan are also cover copyright laws, so by using a real news agency's name the author probably did infringe on the copyrighted name of the legitimate news agency.
I wouldn't think that any real news agency would want people crediting false news to their organization, thereby tarnishing their reputation. |
But it was a parody. Shouldn't that be a protected form of speach? |
Sure. Yet, you can't slander a legitimate organization's good name when making up the fake news. If it looks fake and is easily discernable from the truth, it's OK. However, when it looks legitmate and makes no claims of falsehood whatsoever, it threatens the ability for all news reported by the Kyodo News Agency to be taken as the truth.
For example, if someone printed up a magazine that looked exactly like Time Magazine, and made it 100% authentic yet filled it with fake news, they would be arrested and sued in any western nation for copyright infringement. |
Maybe, if it can be proven that financial gain was made from it. It's really a matter of context. Was the page printed in a site filled with other such parodies? |
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Pligganease
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| Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Hollywoodaction wrote: |
| Maybe, if it can be proven that financial gain was made from it. It's really a matter of context. Was the page printed in a site filled with other such parodies? |
I think that's the question. From what the OP said, it created a fake Yahoo! site which looked identical to the real Yahoo! site and created false news credited to a legitimate news source. Since the site was taken down, I guess we have no real way of knowing. |
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