Photographer Bimal Nepal accuses PM Narendra Modi’s social team of stealing his photo

PM Narendra Modi has run into controversy over a Facebook post on his official account. Modi's Facebook account has allegedly used a photograph of a US-based photographer, Bimal Nepal, to wish people on Dhanteras.
But surely that is not a problem? The issue is that the photograph has been allegedly used without taking permission from the photographer. At least, this is what Bimal Nepal claims.

Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in cambodia:Police

 A co-founder of top Swedish filesharing site The Pirate Bay, who is on an international wanted list, has been arrested in the Cambodian capital at Stockholm's request, police said Sunday. Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was handed a one-year prison sentence by a Swedish court in 2009 for promoting copyright infringement but failed to show up to serve his term at the start of this year. He was detained in Phnom Penh on Thursday, Cambodia's national police spokesman said.

"His arrest was made at the request of the Swedish government for a crime related to information technology," Kirth Chantharith told AFP.

"We don't have an extradition treaty with Sweden but we'll look into our laws and see how we can handle this case," he said, adding that Cambodia was awaiting more information and documents from the Swedish authorities.

Google antipiracy measure skips YouTube, says report

New policy demotes sites in search results if Google receives a lot of take-down notices involving content on those sites. But removal requests are handled differently for YouTube and won't count against the site, according to a report.

Google's new copyright-policing policy apparently won't affect Google-owned YouTube as it does other Web sites, despite the fact that YouTube has been known to play host to illegally posted copyrighted material.

The new policy, announced yesterday, knocks sites down in search results if Google receives a lot of "valid copyright removal notices" involving content on those sites.

But Search Engine Land reports that flagging supposedly illegal content on most sites involves using an online process that starts on a page labeled "Removing Content From Google," whereas flagging content on YouTube involves using the video site's baked-in "Copyright Center." And the removal requests Google will be considering as far as search-result positioning is concerned will be those made through the Removing Content page, not through YouTube's Copyright Center.