Modi's team violates copyright?

IN Media Watch Briefs | 23/10/2014

Bimal Nepal, a Massachusetts-based photographer, has charged PM Narendra Modi on social media of violating copyright. On October 21, Mr. Modi’s Facebook page published a modified version of a photograph that apparently Nepal had clicked and posted on his Flickr page in November 2012. In his Facebook post the same day, Nepal called Mr. Modi “one of my greatest heroes”, but went on to add that his “greatest question and concern is - there is no credit for the photographer?!”

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