Category: Ethics & Legal

David L. Hudson, Jr., has a nice summation up on the ABA (American Bar Association) Journal web site about some of the most recent court cases involving citizens recording police activities. If you’re headed to the Northern Short Course next week, we’ll be talking about some of these same issues in the Forging a Better Line: Understanding the Police-Photojournalist Relationship...

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I’m still scratching my head over this one … according to Thomas Hawk, a French court has decided that a stock image that included a designer couch violated the intellectual property rights of the furniture’s manufacturer. Getty, who was the defendant in the case, has posted an update to their contributor agreement. From their statement: Designer furniture may be protected...

Pixiq has the story about a San Diego photographer who was assaulted, and then not really helped, after he photographed three women who are part of the cast of a Discover reality show called Biker Wives.