Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/08/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]They are saying if they can't contact the people easily who took the photo and its a fast breaking important story they run the image anyway. For as long as they can get away with it they are making it up as they go along. And the end of that seems to have now come. Copywrite laws are not that vague and they do not seem at all to exclude internet usage. And no of course it does not make any difference if the photos were taken by pros or not. That's never been any part of any copywrite law ever written. You shoot it you own it. -- Mark R. > From: Tina Manley <images at comporium.net> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 15:32:57 -0400 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: [Leica] BBC and Twitter > > LUG: > > BBC's attempt at explaining why they use photos from Twitter without regard > to copyright issues: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2011/08/use_of_photographs_from_social.h > tml > > I agree with most of the comments. You get permission or you don't use the > photo. > > Tina > > -- > Tina Manley, ASMP > www.tinamanley.com > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information