This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel
In one of the first major tests of intellectual property law involving social media services, a judge has ruled that news agencies cannot freely publish photographs posted to Twitter without the photographer’s permission.It’s the latest development in a case we’ve been following quite closely since it broke back in 2010. After the devastating earthquake in Haiti that year, photojournalist Daniel Morel captured a photo of a woman trapped beneath rubble, and then shared the image through his Twitter account.
Two news organizations — Agence France-Presse and The Washington Post — then took that photograph and distributed it to various publications, which published it without Morel’s permission.
Morel’s photograph was published on the front pages of newspapers around the world without his permission
When Morel sent out cease and desist letters to the agencies, the news organizations argued that there was no copyright infringement in this case. To add insult to injury, they decided to launch a lawsuit against Morel for “antagonistic assertion of rights.”
Now, nearly three years later, District Judge Alison Nathan of Manhattan has issued a ruling that the two news companies had improperly used the Twitter image, and that the use constituted copyright infringement.
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By: Michael Zhang
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