Showing posts with label Permission. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Permission. Show all posts
Thursday, December 26, 2013
Saturday, November 23, 2013
AFP and Getty to pay $1.2 million for using Twitter photos without permission
At the beginning of this year a US district judge ruled that several news organizations were liable for infringing on the copyrights of photographer Daniel Morel, after they used images posted on Twitter without permission — now they’ve been ordered to pay. Both the Agence France-Presse and Getty Images will have to pay Morel a total of $ 1.2 million for their part in the situation.
“I hope that never happens again to any of us.”
It all began when an AFP editor found several photos of the 2010 Haiti earthquake on Twitter, which were originally taken by Morel, and then distributed them to Getty. From there Morel’s pictures spread widely, with multiple news organizations that subscribe to Getty’s image services utilizing them as well. Many of those publications, including The Washington Post, have since settled with Morel for undisclosed amounts.
The AFP had previously argued that the photos were open to commercial reuse, but Judge Alison J. Nathan disagreed, as did Twitter itself. “As has always been our policy,” the company told The Verge in January, “Twitter users own their photos.” The ruling and damages should help set a precedent for how images and other media from social networks can be used by the press, something Morel seems optimistic of. “I feel good,” he told the AFP. “I hope that never happens again to any of us. This is a victory for all artists, for all copyright holders.”
AFP and Getty to pay $1.2 million for using Twitter photos without permission
Sunday, September 8, 2013
Syria Chemical Attack Possibly Carried Out Without Assad Permission, German Newspaper Reports
BERLIN, Sept 8 (Reuters) – Syrian government forces may have carried out a chemical weapons attack close to Damascus without the personal permission of President Bashar al-Assad, Germany’s Bild am Sonntag paper reported on Sunday, citing German intelligence.
Syrian brigade and division commanders had been asking the Presidential Palace to allow them to use chemical weapons for the last four-and-a-half months, according to radio messages intercepted by German spies, but permission had always been denied, the paper said.
This could mean Assad may not have personally approved the attack close to Damascus on Aug. 21 in which more than 1,400 are estimated to have been killed, intelligence officers suggested.
Germany’s foreign intelligence agency (BND) could not be reached for comment.
Bild said the radio traffic was intercepted by a German naval reconnaissance vessel, the Oker, sailing close to the Syrian coast.
Last week the head of the BND, Gerhard Schindler, gave confidential briefings to the German parliament’s defence and foreign affairs committees. Bild said Schindler told the defence committee that Syria’s civil war could continue for years.
The chief of staff of Germany’s armed forces, General Volker Wieker, also told lawmakers the influence of al-Qaeda linked forces with within the rebels was becoming stronger and stronger.
Members of the foreign affairs committee present at the briefing told Reuters Schindler had said that although the BND did not have absolute proof Assad’s government was responsible, it had much evidence to suggest it was.
This included a phone call German spies intercepted between a Hezbollah official and the Iranian Embassy in Damascus in which the official said Assad had ordered the attack.
Germany, along with the European Union, blames the Syrian government for the attack but urged waiting for a report from U.N. weapons inspectors before any U.S.-led military response.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel repeated in an interview with Bild am Sonntag that Germany would not take part in any military intervention but that the use of chemical weapons should not go without response.
Merkel is fighting to win a third term in a federal election in two weeks. Germans are overwhelmingly opposed to military action in Syria.
(Reporting by Alexandra Hudson; Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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Syria Chemical Attack Possibly Carried Out Without Assad Permission, German Newspaper Reports
Monday, June 17, 2013
Schools Scanned Kids" Eyes Without Parents" Permission
Parents are fuming over a Florida school district failed to ask for advance permission to scan their children’s eyes for a hiugh tech school bus security program.
The Polk County School District claims a series of errors led to the program and parents were told they could opt out — but only after 750 students had already undergone the procedure.
“It sounds like a simple case of it’s better to ask forgiveness than permission,” said Connie Turlington, whose 11-year-old son’s eyes were scanned at the Davenport School of the Arts.
Even the man in charge of the school district, interim school superintendent John Stewart, says he didn’t know about the program until it was too late, and district administrator Rob Davis admits his office emailed principals in the central Florida district too late for letters go out to the parents in time.
The company doing the scanning, Stanley Convergent Security Solutions, started the scans before a contract had been signed, The Ledger reports.
“It was almost a comedy of errors,” school board attorney Wes Bridges said.
The company says it has now deleted the information it gathered from students, however parents say they still worry, saying nothing is ever really deleted from the Internet.
The district is no longer considering iris scans, after the parents’ protests, said Davis, but many parents believe the district’s change of heart is coming too late.
“They have no concept of what they’ve done here,” April Serrano, the mother of an 8-year-old said. “I feel like my son’s civil rights were violated.”
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Schools Scanned Kids" Eyes Without Parents" Permission
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