Category: Ethics & Legal

The Olympian has posted a story stating that Tony Overman, their photographer whose home was vandalized a few weeks back, had shown unpublished photos of rioters to police in the past. Overman, according to the story, had repeatedly denied doing this. The act is a violation of the newspapers policies. The issues here are complex. Journalists need to be trusted,...

Having grown up outside of Boston, I can tell you that it has the best Fourth of July celebration in the country. The Boston Pops playing at the Hatch Shell on the shore of the Charles River, the National Guard brings out some howitzers for the climax of the 1812 Overture … there’s just nothing like it. For years, after...

Yep – it’s true, they can’t. And the New York Times is all over this story. (Chinese officials) also explained that the altered image was the work of a government photographer who thought that none of his pictures did justice to the scene, and so took it upon himself to improve on nature by combining parts of three photographs to...

This is bordering on the macabre … Newsweek has a cover story that looks at what life for Princess Diana is like at 50. Remember that she was killed by a drunk driver in 1997. Looking back on the lives of celebrities who died young is not a new thing. Even creating an image to show what they might have...

Julie Moos at Poynter is reporting that ABC licensed a photo of a rattlesnake for, ahem, $15,000 … they also got an exclusive interview with a witness in the Casey Anthony trial. According to the story, ABC News has now spent $215,000 for scoops regarding the case. That must have been one stunning rattlesnake photo.

Over at the Online Photographer, Michael Johnston talks about a copyright infringement case that involves Jay Maisel’s iconic Miles Davis cover shot from Kind of Blue. Read his post, read the infringer’s post and you decide – derivative or transformative?