Category: Ethics & Legal

Imagine you’re 14-years-old and post a self-portrait of yourself on Flickr. A few years later, you find it on the cover of a pornographic DVD. So, you have a copyright violation AND a problem with missappropriation of her likeness. Probably not a child endangerment or pornography charge, though. But the producer’s response is … well, let’s just say it says...

The National Press Photographers Association has been having their Photojournalism Summit in Portland, Ore., this week. In addition to a multimedia bootcamp (some of the stories done are online), there was also a panel discussion on ethics in the industry – and it sounds like it was a little bleak. John Long, who has been a long-time commentator on ethics...

News Photographer magazine editor Donald Winslow reports on how several publications digitally altered one of the images from the Virginia Tech shooting, allegedly to protect a student’s dignity.

Jim Romenesko asks whether NBC’s act of stamping their logo on the photos and footage they received from the Virginia Tech shooter is the same or different from Allan Detrich altering a photo for the Toledo Blade last month.

Hany Farid, a professor of computer science at Dartmouth College, has a good listing of manipulated images (and seems to be updating it continually). A good resource.