Copyright Archives - Granite Grok

UNDERWOOD: EdOpt Terms of Use

September 6, 2025September 5, 2025 Jody Underwood

Recent claims have caused confusion about EdOpt’s work and mission, and especially its terms of use. As a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping families explore education alternatives in New Hampshire, we want to clarify the facts. EdOpt follows terms of use. EdOpt uses a variety of tools, including AI-supported web searches, to gather publicly available … Read more

GrokTALK!: Extortion

August 11, 2025 GrokTALK!

This week, I’ve got a story about the Associated Press and a so-called image licensing watchdog that was let off its leash (if it ever had one) and is trying to extort me, perhaps legally, but this has shakedown written all over it. Please use this link and donate. If you prefer to give by … Read more

Folks, GraniteGrok has a Problem (NEW:…Well, HAD a Problem?)

September 16, 2022September 16, 2021 Skip

UPDATE 5: It has been a while since we updated this topic actually, a long time (July 30, 2021). Mostly because there has been no updated news to offer from that date.

July 18, 2021 Burt Janz

The editors of Granite Grok claim to have been attacked by “copyright trolls”: individuals who believe they alone have the power and authority to file a lawsuit when any copyrighted materials – specifically any images – appear anywhere on any of the Granit Grok pages.

“Hope…We Don’t Get Caught?”

September 26, 2018May 14, 2012 Steve MacDonald

No time like a famous fundraiser to revisit reality. The 2008 Hope poster, of Obama…” “‘… the artist who created the poster, Shepard Fairey, used another photograph of Obama but said he relied on the Obama-Clooney picture to avoid a copyright infringement case with The Associated Press. He pleaded guilty in February to criminal contempt … Read more