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Google row over missing Aborigine flag (excerpt from BBC website)
Google has been criticised in Australia after it removed an Aboriginal flag from a competition-winning drawing appearing on its homepage.
But Google said they had to remove the flag after its designer, Harold Thomas, refused them permission to use it.
The central ‘o’ of Google’s name was originally formed by the bright yellow sun in the centre of the flag, which is officially recognised as the flag of indigenous Australians.
But the image which appeared online on Australia Day showed only the sun.
Mr Thomas – an Aboriginal elder – holds the copyright for the flag but allows groups supporting indigenous rights and issues to use it without charge, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. He said he charged for commercial use of the image but that Google had failed to negotiate with him properly.
He said Google had eventually offered him “a pittance” for the image rights so he refused
The flag itself: designed during 1970s indigenous land rights protests
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