Sunday, October 23, 2011

postheadericon Who Gets The Copyright On The Photo Of A Beaten Gaddafi, Captured Off A Cameraphone

News Agency (AFP Getty with his partner) has a bit of a story with some copyright claims rather strange. You may remember the trial that the AFP was involved in a tug from Twitpic photos of the devastation after the earthquake of Haiti without permission, attributed the wrong photographer and downloaded from Getty. Surprisingly, once the royal photographer for this call to AFP, AFP photographer continued ... and lost a lot of time.

You might think that this would lead AFP and Getty be a little more careful in how they attribute the photos and claim copyright on them .. . especially in breaking news. And yet ... You may have heard how the former Libyan dictator Gaddafi was captured and killed yesterday. You may also have heard that his arrest and beatings were captured on video of some of the rebel soldiers who helped to capture and kill. Now, pictures and videos can be very graphic, so do not click the link below if you're a little worried. Is a link to a page of Getty Images capture the video on mobile phones. The information, however, the phone operator unit has no name.


If you can not see, is the metadata of the photo below, which indicates that it is a video from a stolen phone moving a National Transitional Council (CNT) combat ... but he then claims the credit, if someone uses the image, go to "AFP photo / PHILIPPE Desmazes (photo credit should read PHILIPPE Desmazes / AFP / Getty Images)."



Now to be fair, according to AFP, Desmazes was, in fact, in the scene and took a screenshot of the camera phone to receive vaccine:



"I covered the fall of Sirte and heard the shots just west of where he was. The rebels told us that the men of Gaddafi attempted go out at night to the west further. There had been trouble, but it sounds more like the celebration of the fight, "said Desmazes. "So I asked the soldiers to take me there. When I arrived, I showed large concrete cylinders in which he said that Gaddafi had hidden when he was captured. A little later, I realized that some fighters gathered around a phone. I was lucky because I was the only one of them. The owner of the phone showed me the arrest of Gaddafi who had filmed a few minutes before. Taking into account the ambient light, it was very difficult to take a screen capture screen. The fighters gathered back and gave me enough shade to the picture. I was really lucky, "at he said.
So it's not as if only claiming credit for something that had nothing to do, but it seems a little dubious Desmazes / AFP / Getty real here are not allowed. It seems that this is a very derivative of the original without a lot of creativity that would Desmazes author. At least he seems to give credit to the person who shot the video. Of course, it took some effort to get his shot Desmazes camera screen (and I must admit, the picture quality is surprisingly strong if it is an image of a screen smartphone camera), but sufficient to obtain a separate copyright And if we take this thought process to the logical conclusion, since Desmazes / AFP arrive to claim a copyright to make a capture screen of a camera, if I take a picture of my computer screen that shows the image itself, and cultures correctly, you can now claim to own the rights to the same image? It seems quite slippery slope

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