Here is the next case that illustrates the potential pitfalls
when dealing with social media:
This recent US copyright decision involving Agence France Presse (AFP) and
photographer Daniel Morel dealt with the rights
of a news publisher to publish images posted to Twitter.
Mr. Morel is a photojournalist who took a number of images of
the 2010 earthquake in Haiti. He then posted those images to
Twitter. Those images were picked up by AFP who
"licensed" the images on to Getty Images.
When Morel complained, steps were taken to have the images
removed from the AFP / Getty system. But through series of mixups
(of the kind that would be familiar to anyone dealing with
information technology and complex organizations such as AFP and
Getty Images), the pictures were not removed and were picked up and
published by The Washington Post under their agreement with
AFP/Getty.
