On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:53 PM, Anthony
<wikimail(a)inbox.org> wrote:
It's
unclear to me how widespread the distribution of this album cover is
in
the UK. Amazon UK doesn't seem to have it.
Just how easy is it to find?
Amazon.co.uk did until Monday morning. And we have reports of it being
in high street record shops. It's also widely available on the
internet in general.
I'll hold off on speculating on *why* Amazon UK took it down (has Amazon US
done so as well?). But good for them that they did so.
It should also be noted that this album cover has been continuously
available in stores in the UK for 32 years. No one has been
prosecuted, and it has never been banned. This strongly suggests the
image is not illegal.
The IWF also stated that they blocked Wikipedia (although the image is
available on plenty of other sites) for "pragmatic" reasons. Read into
that what you will.
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Oldak Quill (oldakquill(a)gmail.com)