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Old Jan 8, 2013 | 2:09 pm
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jkhuggins
 
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Originally Posted by RichardKenner
I'm not a lawyer either but, like you, am very familiar with copyright law. I agree with everything you say except that if he did indeed "touch it up a bit", meaning other than cropping, there could be an issue.
The two images posted above do indeed look different. To be fair, we don't know which image was given to/taken by TSA. Maybe they were given the harsher original image (which they cropped) and InfoWars retouched the full-size version they posted. Or, maybe TSA retouched and cropped the image as has been suggested here.

Either way ... a fair use claim would still seem to be a strong one (IANAL).
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