A story -- and a photo -- that breaks my heart. However, Columbia Journalism Review, Jon Patrick Fobes has a point, which he posted in your comments thread: As a photo editor at The Plain Dealer I spend no small amount of effort tying to avoid violating photographer copyrights. Very often a photographers picture gets in the hands of another party, and that person thinks its OK to pass that along for publication. Only its not OK. In fact, its a copyright violation, and getting all too common on the Web. So what does CJR do? They take my photo from some mysterious third person -- who never spoke with me -- and they put it on their Web site. This bastion of journalistic integrity is violating it. When I called about it, I was told to leave a message Posted by jon fobes on Fri 17 Jan 2014 at 04:14 PM
Posted on: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 21:57:31 +0000
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