News Outlets Improperly Used Photos Posted to Twitter: Judge
Posted: 1/16/2013 | By: Erin Geiger Smith | Reuters
(Reuters)
- A judge has found that two news organizations improperly used images
that a photojournalist had posted to Twitter in one of the first big
tests of intellectual property law involving social media.
Agence France-Presse and The Washington Post infringed on the copyrights of photographer Daniel Morel in using pictures he took in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake in January 2010, District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan ruled.
Agence France-Presse and The Washington Post infringed on the copyrights of photographer Daniel Morel in using pictures he took in the aftermath of the Haiti earthquake in January 2010, District Judge Alison Nathan in Manhattan ruled.