Apple Rejects Cagle Woods App

Daryl Cagle reports that Apple has once again rejected a Tiger Woods-related cartoon iPhone app, confusing in that Apple had recently supposedly refined their policy away from an injunction against the ridicule of public figures the way it's practiced by editorial cartoonists like Cagle and those in his syndicate.

I think Sam Diaz has a balanced summary of both Michael Cavna's call to arms and the forces that have driven him to make that call -- I don't know too many people sympathetic to the cartoonists' position that have described the motivation for Apple's initial policy in positive terms. He's also right in describing the importance of these devices as avenues of distribution, and in pointing out that the overall goal needs to be pressing Apple into consistency and clarity in terms of policy as opposed to fighting over each instance of denial that seems to offend our inner sense of what that policy needs to be.
 
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