“It’s my moment, not yours”… US Court decision clarifies who owns photos on Twitter
7 February 2013
In the US case of Agence France Presse v. Morel [2012] a series of iconic images of the Haitian earthquake taken by Daniel Morel and uploaded to Twitter were held to have been wrongly used by global news companies. Significantly, it is the first case that clarifies how photos uploaded to the ‘Twittersphere’ can legally be used by third parties in a commercial context.
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