OIC uses Mohammad cartoon to illustrate news story
Tundra Tabloids noticed that the February edition (PDF) of the Organisation of The Islamic Conference (OIC) Islamophobia report includes the same graphic as the one Dagbladet published in February.
Technically, this shouldn't be a news story. But then, the fact that Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet used the same exact graphic to illustrate the same exact news story, shouldn't have made headlines either. And yet, it was - leading to strikes by taxi drivers, an imam-editor dialog meeting and a couple of protests.
Since nobody can accuse the OIC of Islamophobia, it seems that printing the cartoon for journalistic purposes is indeed OK. Dagbladet has been vindicated. Now the only remaining question is whether the OIC asked permission before using this obviously copyrighted image.
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