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March 16, 2008

The MSM’s Photo Faux Pas
-- Chip Bennett (8:29 am)

Imagine, if you will, a blogger who decides to focus his work on exposing the inaccuracy of the mainstream media’s photojournalism. In order to do so, this blogger would need to post the photos to be discussed (be that discussion editorial, critical, or corrective in nature). Certainly, any rational person would understand that such action would constitute fair use of copyrighted works.

Such a blogger exists, and his blog is Snapped Shot.

The AP apparently disagreed with his fair use of their photos, and sent him a cease-and-desist letter. (The fair-use defense in this instance is pretty cut-and-dry. Snapped Shot has a run-down of the blogosphere’s reaction, so there’s no need for me to re-hash it all here.) After some consultation, Snapped Shot decided to comply rather than to place his family in jeopardy. After all, who can afford to fight the AP’s legal department?

Here’s the irony, though: the AP, who disputes Snapped Shot’s fair-use right to their own copyrighted photos for the purpose of discussing the very photos themselves, apparently finds a fair-use right to others’ copyrighted photos, even though the photos used were in no way related to the story (unless the AP can prove some link to a photo of a bikini-clad Ashley Alexandra Dupre in the Caribbean to a story about Eliot Spitzer’s use of her call-girl services in New York).

Oh, but the irony gets even thicker: CNN is in on the copyright violations, too.

Hypocrisy: good for me, but not for thee.

This entry was posted at Sunday, March 16th, 2008 at 8:29 am.
Filed in Copyright, Fair Use, Internet, Media Bias, Photos
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   Of course, CNN would be in on it, too!

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