Category: Ethics & Legal

Shepard Fairey is the artist who created the Barack Obama Hope poster a few years back that the Associated Press claimed was based on an image they owned. Seems they have come to an agreement, though some details are remaining confidential.

UPDATE: There are some unanswered questions about this incident, it may not be a clear-cut harassing of a photographer. New York Daily News contributor Steven Sunshine was stopped by JetBlue security while photographing a flight status board at John F. Kennedy Airport. The employees claimed he needed to request permission three days in advance … which would be before the...

When we talk about ethics in my courses, it’s a question that always comes up–if you’re first on a scene, do you help out or shoot? Where’s your responsibility? As always, I frustrate my students with my most common answer. It depends. For John David Mercer, a Press-Register photographer, the decision was easy–help. And he did. After seeing flames coming...

How’s that for an overblown headline to mark the site’s return from oblivion? Pretty overblown, I’d say … but back to the the news of the visual journalism realm … Kodak is suing Shutterfly (and, of course, Shutterfly is counter-suing Kodak) over a patent infringement that defines how images are stored and sold online. One of the little known facts...