Category: Access & Censorship
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WikiLeaks Springs a Leak: Full Database of Diplomatic Cables Appears Online
Julian Assange (Photo: WikiMedia Commons) For the second time in a year, WikiLeaks has lost control
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“Security guards have no right to prevent street photography,” says Home Office
Link: The Home Office and the British Security Industry Association have published a new set of guidelines for security guards confirming that photography in public places is legal and cannot be restricted
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New York Police Are Ordered to Let Journalists Work
Let Journalists Work, City Police Are Ordered (Published 2011) Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly has issued an internal message warning that New York City officers who interfere unreasonably with journalists’ access will be subject to disciplinary action. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/24/nyregion/new-york-police-are-ordered-to-let-journalists-work.html Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly has issued an internal message ordering officers in New York City not…
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The Police, the Press and Protests: Did Everyone Get the Memo?
Link: As you can see about three minutes into this video, one of New York’s finest either did not get the memo or failed to internalize its contents. While Robert Stolarik, on assignment for The New York Times, works to take photographs of other officers attempting to clear protesters from the World Financial Center’s Winter…
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Attorney details backlash against photojournalists
Attorney details backlash against photojournalists A “perfect storm” of repression has raged against photojournalists in the United States in recent years, according to an accomplished news photographer who has become an attorney representing his former colleagues. Mickey H. Osterreicher, a counsel with w via National Press Club: http://press.org/news-multimedia/news/attorney-details-backlash-against-photojournalists?utm_source=Copy+of+1-25-12+Wire&utm_campaign=1-26-12+Wire&utm_medium=email A “perfect storm” of repression has raged…
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Iowa farm photography bill signed into law – illegal to lie to access farms
Link: While the law no longer has language specifically addressing photography or video recording, both opponents and supporters of the law say that its intent is to prevent videos of farm operations from being made. Under the law, fraudulently entering a farm would be punishable by up to 1 year in prison and a $1,500…
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Photojournalist’s Federal Lawsuit Defends Right To Record Police
Link: Today a federal civil rights lawsuit was filed on behalf of Philip Datz in the Eastern District of the U.S. District Court that challenges Suffolk County’s policy and practice of obstructing the First Amendment right of the press and the public to record and gather the news about police activity in public places.
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Olympics’ security guards “trained to deter people from taking photographs”
Link: A manager for G4S, a security firm, has said that security guards working to protect the Olympic site in London are trained to deter people from taking photographs, it has been claimed
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Vogue’s flattering profile on Assad’s wife disappears from Web
Link: Although the Vogue piece didn’t mention it, the photos that accompanied the article — of Asma al-Assad, her husband and two of their children at home in Damascus — were facilitated by an American public-relations firm working for the Syrian government. The firm, Brown Lloyd James, was paid $25,000 to set up a photo…
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Judge rules against Nikon in controversial ‘comfort women’ case
Link: Nikon has been forced to reopen a controversial exhibition on Korean comfort women in Japan after a judge found in favour of the photographer
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Photographers protest Stone Roses concert rules
Link: Press photographers, backed by the National Union of Journalists, are calling for a boycott of the Stone Roses reunion concerts in protest of rights-grabbing photography rules
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Police Intimidation Watch: University of California to Pay Photog $162,500 for Wrongful Arrest
Link: UC Berkeley police arrested photographer David Morse at the scene of a protest at the home of the University of California chancellor. Police allegedly told Morse they wanted his camera in order to identify protesters who committed acts of vandalism at the scene
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Explanation please, Twitter
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2012/07/31/explanation-please-twitter/ After The Independent’s Guy Adams was suspended from Twitter for posting an NBC executive’s public work email address, Laura Gluhanich tweeted….
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Photographers Rights – Covering the Upcoming National Conventions
Link: Know when to back off. It’s all well and good to quote case law and scream about your rights (and believe me, I’ve seen plenty of photographers whip out these old chestnuts,) but at some point it’s not going to be enough and you’ll be faced with having to either keep shooting knowing you…
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Concern mounts over U.S. journalist in Syria; Austin Tice’s whereabouts unknown
Link: The family of Austin Tice, an American freelance journalist who has been reporting from Syria for The Washington Post and other news organizations, said Thursday that it has not heard from him for more than a week and is concerned for his welfare.
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Photoshopping Dissent: Circumventing China’s Censors With Internet Memes
Photoshopping Dissent: Circumventing China’s Censors With Internet Memes Chinese web users are giving low-brow meme culture a political tinge, pushing the boundaries of free online speech. via The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2012/09/photoshopping-dissent-circumventing-chinas-censors-with-internet-memes/261911/ Indeed, netizen participation in China is extra significant considering the country’s reliance on “soft” censorship: A blend of algorithms, firewalls and private business cooperation that…
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If Google yanks “Innocence of Muslims,” will it lose its DMCA Safe Harbor?
Link: The New York Times has assembled a “Convention Storybook,” an online archive of the conventions. It is a look inside the two parties as they sought to articulate their platforms and positions as clearly as possible, without interference. The “Convention Storybook” presents photographs by Stephen Crowley, Josh Haner, Todd Heisler, Doug Mills, Damon Winter,…
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Why I’m okay with photos of the dead.
Link: I’m not sure what we gain by keeping these deaths obscured from view. If anything, it can leave us with the unreal sense that life is somehow free of fatal consequence.