Agence France Presse's slap to photographers
Agence France Presse filed a complaint against Haiti-based photographer Daniel Morel, claiming heengaged in an “antagonistic assertion of rights” after the photographer objected to the use by AFP of images he posted online of the Haitian earthquake.
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As the traditional news media business model disintegrates, photojournalists across the world are finding themselves unemployed. Picture editors have found a novel approach to sourcing photography content: facebook and twitter.
Editors simply copy images from online, without attribution, approval or payment to the photographer.
In this example, AFP took a photographer's work, credited it to another person, sold it for thousands of dollars, paid nobody, and then sued the original photographer for “antagonistic assertion of rights”.
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