Category: Ethics & Legal

(Welcome back – you missed the puns, didn’t you?) In a stunningly good show of solidarity, photographers covering Janet Jackson’s Oslo, Norway, show all boycotted it, refusing to sign the onerous contract they were presented with upon arrival. These contracts have been around for the last dozen or so years, but this one was particularly bad – including the stipulation...

It has been eight years since Brian Walski shipped a composite photo to his editors at the Los Angeles Times, but readers still occasionally question images that they publish. Happy to see Deputy Director of Photography Steve Stroud answering these questions directly – the images in question appear to be clean.

I wrote about this a while back. Two newspapers, the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the Denver Post, had entered into an agreement with a company called Righthaven LLC, giving them the authority to go after copyright violators. In principal, not a bad idea – copyright violations are rampant online and news organizations need to protect what they have created. Hard...

So says the head of the Maryland Transit Administration. As background … in February, two amateur photographers were confronted by MTA police officers and informed it was against Maryland law and MTA policy to photograph trains and facilities. Administrator Ralign T. Wells disavowed police efforts to restrict photography on or around MTA property and said he would take action to...