Category: Access & Censorship
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You Can Close The Studio, Amazon Patents Photographing On Seamless White
You Can Close The Studio, Amazon Patents Photographing On Seamless White – DIY Photography I am not really sure how to tag this other than a big #fail for the USPTO, or a huge Kudos for Amazon’s IP attorneys. In a patent simply called Studio arrangement Amazon took IP ownership on what we all call…
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BuzzFeed and CBS News journalists detained and freed in Ukraine
Link: BuzzFeed and CBS News journalists detained and freed in Ukraine | Poynter. CBS News correspondent Clarissa Ward and BuzzFeed correspondent Mike Giglio were among the journalists detained at checkpoints in Ukraine Friday
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George Steinmetz Wonders: Was It Worth Getting Arrested for National Geographic Cover Story Photos?
George Steinmetz Wonders: Was It Worth Getting Arrested for National Geographic Cover Story Photos? | PDNPulse This month’s cover story of National Geographic, about how to meet growing worldwide demand for food, is the story that got photographer George Steinmetz in trouble last June, and he’s still stinging from the experience. Caught in the political…
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Fond du Lac principal censors student news magazine’s censorship photo illustration
Link: Fond du Lac principal censors student news magazine’s censorship photo illustration – SPLC News Fond du Lac Principal Jon Wiltzius said he wasn’t sure what the message was with that image. “The lack of understanding of knowing what the message was made it very clear that that wasn’t something that we should print in…
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Attack on Journalist Starts Battle in Pakistani Press
Attack on Journalist Starts Battle in Pakistani Press Accusations that the country’s spy agency was involved in the attack have led to a divisive debate and demands that a television station be shut down. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/27/world/asia/attack-on-journalist-starts-battle-in-pakistani-press.html?partner=rss&emc=rss At issue are claims aired by Geo News, Mr. Mir’s employer and the largest station, that the military’s powerful…
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American Journalist Released by Ukraine Separatists
American Journalist Released by Ukraine Separatists Separatist rebels in eastern Ukraine released the American journalist Simon Ostrovsky on Thursday, three days after he was taken prisoner in Slovyansk while reporting for Vice News. via The Lede: http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/american-journalist-released-by-ukraine-separatists/?partner=rss&emc=rss ‘They had my picture, they were looking for me’
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French journalists kidnapped in Syria freed
French journalists kidnapped in Syria freed Four journalists found on the Turkish border with Syria after being kidnapped last June by al-Qaeda-linked group. Link: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/04/kidnapped-french-journalists-syria-freed-201441993721332280.html “Edouard Elias , Didier Francois, Nicolas Henin and Pierre Torres are in good health, despite the extremely harsh conditions of their captivity. They will arrive in France in the next…
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Baltimore To Pay $250K for Videos Deleted by Police: A Vindication of Photographers’ Rights
Baltimore To Pay $250K for Videos Deleted by Police: A Vindication of Photographers’ Rights | PDNPulse The City of Baltimore and its police department have agreed to pay $250,000 to settle a claim of unlawful seizure and destruction of cell phone videos that belonged to a citizen who allegedly recorded police arresting and beating another…
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Toledo Blade Sues Over Detention of Journalists at Tank Plant
Toledo Blade Sues Over Detention of Journalists at Tank Plant The lawsuit claims that a reporter and a photographer were detained by military police officers outside a General Dynamics tank plant after taking photographs of it. Link: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/04/07/business/media/toledo-blade-sues-over-detention-of-journalists-at-tank-plant.html Ms. Fraser was handcuffed and referred to “in terms denoting the masculine gender,” the lawsuit said. When…
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Kidnapped Photojournalist, Reporter Freed In Syria
Kidnapped Photojournalist, Reporter Freed In Syria Photojournalist Ricardo Garcia-Vilanova, kidnapped along with reporter Javier Espinosa in northern Syria last September, was freed along with Espinosa on Saturday night near Tal Abiyad. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/kidnapped-photojournalist-reporter-freed-syria Photojournalist Ricardo Garcia-Vilanova, kidnapped along with reporter Javier Espinosa in northern Syria last September, was freed along with Espinosa on Saturday…
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As First lady lauds free press, questions about her media access
As First lady lauds free press, questions about her media access Restrictions on reporters in China complicates coverage of Michelle Obama’s visit via Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/as-first-lady-lauds-free-press-questions-about-her-media-access/2014/03/25/349cc544-c463-4dee-8fdf-cb2c69f949e6_story.html?wprss=rss_world Jay Rosen, a professor of journalism at New York University, said that when U.S. presidents or first ladies travel abroad “they bring a demonstration of what a free press…
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Defamation, Girls, and pictures through a window: recent legal news affecting photography and copyright
Link: Defamation, Girls, and pictures through a window: recent legal news affecting photography and copyright | dvafoto There’ve been a bunch of legal developments in the world of photography and copyright in the past couple weeks. Here are a few things that have been on my radar that all have relevance to freelance and staff…
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Risen: Obama administration is this generation’s ‘greatest enemy of press freedom’
Link: Risen: Obama administration is this generation’s ‘greatest enemy of press freedom’ | Poynter. The administration’s aggressive prosecutions have created “a de facto Official Secrets Act,” Risen said, and the media has been “too timid” in responding.
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Microsoft has always reserved the right to read and disclose your Hotmail messages
Microsoft has always reserved the right to read and disclose your Hotmail messages Microsoft’s “Scroogled” campaign (no relation) boastfully compared Hotmail’s privacy framework to Gmail’s, condemning Google for “reading your mail.” Now, … via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2014/03/21/microsoft-has-always-reserved.html Microsoft’s “Scroogled” campaign (no relation) boastfully compared Hotmail’s privacy framework to Gmail’s, condemning Google for “reading your mail.”…
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Journalists ask LDS Church to reconsider banning photographers from Temple Square
Journalists ask LDS Church to reconsider banning photographers from Temple Square The Utah Headliners Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists has written a letter ask via The Salt Lake Tribune: http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/blogseditor/57710028-71/letter-conference-font-church.html.csp Utah SPJ understands Temple Square is private property, according to the letter. It seeks “only what the church has routinely allowed in the…
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If You Can’t Join ‘Em, Outshoot ‘Em: Dharapak, AP Take On White House Over Dalai Lama
If You Can’t Join ‘Em, Outshoot ‘Em: Dharapak, AP Take On White House Over Dalai Lama – Reading The Pictures What the administration doesn’t seem to be considering is that the press, beyond the venting and the resentment, is going to raise its game. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/03/if-you-cant-join-em-outshoot-em-dharapak-ap-take-on-white-house-over-dalai-lama/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 What the administration doesn’t seem to…
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AP’s White House staff: Press losing presidential access as Obama officials close doors
Link: AP’s White House staff: Press losing presidential access as Obama officials close doors | Poynter. “Once we lose access, we’ll never get it back,” Dharapak said at the NAA event, where he also repeated a reference to the handout photos as “visual press releases.”
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Hungary law requires photographers to ask permission to take pictures
Hungary law requires photographers to ask permission to take pictures Civil code that outlaws taking pictures without permission of everyone in the photograph is ‘vague and obstructive’ say critics via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/14/hungary-law-photography-permission-take-pictures Civil code that outlaws taking pictures without permission of everyone in the photograph is ‘vague and obstructive’ say critics
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Methinks the White House Doth (Visually) Protest Too Much
Methinks the White House Doth (Visually) Protest Too Much – Reading The Pictures I find it interesting how politicized and message-focused the job of White House photographer seems to have become. via Reading The Pictures: http://www.bagnewsnotes.com/2014/03/methinks-the-white-house-doth-visually-protest-too-much/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Bagnewsnotes+%28BAGnewsNotes%29 I find it interesting how politicized and message-focused the job of White House photographer seems to have become
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After Recent Ruling, America’s Commercial Drone Pilots Come Out of the Shadows
After Recent Ruling, America’s Commercial Drone Pilots Come Out of the Shadows Matt Gunn, an independent model aircraft or drone operator in Cleveland, says the recent court ruling barring the Federal Aviation Administration from enforcing rules prohibiting the commercial use of drones amounts to “mud being flung in their face.” Gun via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2014/03/drone-pilots-flying-high/ “My…