Mixed news on the Florida Farm bill (SB 1246) today. The Florida Senate Committee on Agriculture approved the bill, but before they did they passed two amendments to the language of the bill. The first amendment changes the language of the bill so that it
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AFP said the trio went missing Friday while working near the eastern city of Tobruk, not far from the Egyptian border. On Friday they sent an eMail saying they planned to head 22 miles out of Tobruk to cover rebels and to speak with refugees who are fleeing the combat zones.
In December of 2008 photographer Patrick Cariou filed suit against Ricard Prince, Gagosian Gallery, Lawrence Gagosian and Rizzoli International Publications in federal district court (here). The suit came about after Prince appropriated 28 images from Pat
Both bills, frighteningly, don’t limit their protections to images or recordings taken while on farm property. For instance, section 3.7 of Iowa’s HF589 defines a “crop operation” as “a location where a crop is maintained, including but not limited to a crop field, orchard, nursery, greenhouse, garden, elevator, seed house, barn, or warehouse.”
Photographer Jamal al-Sharaabi of Yemen’s independent weekly Al-Masdar was killed today when security forces in Yemen opened fire on anti-government demonstrators, the Committee to Protect Journalists has reported. Al-Shaarabi was among 44 people killed i
Four New York Times journalists held since Tuesday by pro-Qaddafi forces in Libya will be released today, Libyan government officials have told the US State Department. The Libyan government says that the four journalists, who include photographers Lynsey
Recently we told you about a bill banning photography of farms in Florida. We have learned that there is a similar bill, prohibiting photography (among other things) of farms and crops without the permission of the owner. The Iowa bill has been compared t
I remember that when I first came to The New Yorker I would get very upset when people ignored that there were photographs in the magazine. I saw it as …