Image Lifted From Twitter Leads to $1.2M Payout For Haitian Photog

magic maverick writes "A U.S. federal jury has ordered Agence France-Presse and Getty Images to pay $1.2 million to a Daniel Morel, Haitian photographer, for their unauthorized use of photographs, from the 2010 Haiti earthquake. The images, posted to Twitter, were taken by an editor at AFP and then provided to Getty. A number of other organizations had already settled out of court with the photographer."

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Re:Sweet sweet copyright justice

[iluvcapra]

We need ten-year copyrights, not seventy. And "personal-consumption piracy" needs to be separated from corporate hijacking of someone's work, what happened right here.

How did you arrive at that number? Kinda arbitrary. I'd agree that the present system is pretty unworkable, though.

I don't agree that "what Slashdot hates is not copyright, it is the abuse of power by the wealthy and the corporations." I know a lot of people just squeaking by, and hoping that their next project hits, and if it does, copyright will be how they benefit. I think what Slashdot hates is certain ways of making money, I think Slashdot is producerist and technophilic: they think creative artists are phonies and not real creators, that people who do marketing and promotion are rentiers, and that the only people actually earning their wealth are coding, doing tech support, and possibly 3D printing Kickstarter prototypes.