This is a brief excerpt from PetaPixel
The issue of publishing social media photos of breaking news without their owners’ permission is in the news again. After a helicopter crashed in central London last Wednesday, the London Evening Standard found a photo snapped by a witness named Craig Jenner and shared on Twitter. Unable to obtain permission from Jenner prior to its paper going to the press, the Evening Standard went ahead and published the image on its front page.Other news organizations quickly pointed out that the use was likely a clear cut case of copyright infringement.
The case is strikingly similar to the court ruling issued last week in the battle between photojournalist Daniel Morel and a number of news organizations. In that dispute, a judge has ruled that Twitter’s terms do not give news agencies the right to publish Twitter photos without permission.
That ruling didn’t keep the Evening Standard from grabbing Jenner’s photo. The Guardian writes that the Evening Standard has a “use first, ask later” policy for when copyright is difficult or impossible to obtain in time.
An Evening Standard picture desk executive said that in the heat of the moment, the paper could not contact Jenner about its …
By: Michael Zhang
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