"Exclusive" Pics in The Star

eirebhoy

Just wondering is a newspaper allowed to publish pictures from a website without permission and call them exclusive?

Here's the front page of the Star:
http://www.thestar.ie/images/frontpage.jpg

They got the pics from here:
http://www.thepeoplesflag.com/web/pics.asp?action=showallpics&super_group_id=31&group_id=75

OFDM

Copyright infringement as far as I know, unless they paid them.

thelordofcheese

wouldn't be the first time something like this has happened.

from the guy who writes the "things my girlfriened and i have argued about" page.

Mail on sunday being w@nkers

MooShop

they shouldnt be allowed to do it, unless they paid for them, but the tabloids would try anything. nice research btw

Sleepy

I'm sure you'd have a case if you own the photos

Bard

They're allowed publish them if they're not copyrighted or if they are copyrighted and they have the owners permission. They can say they're "Exclusive" to them if no other paper has them.

You work it out.

Sleepy

Well, from a look at the site's homepage it looks like we shouldn't have to wait too long to find out.

NEWS - 16 June 2005

The Daily Star Pictures
Just to let you all know that thepeoplesflag did not give permission to The Daily Star to print the pictures of the Irish team celebrating after the Faroes match. These pictures were sent to us in good faith. The Daily Star were never in contact with us about publishing the pictures and thepeoplesflag certainly did not receive any money in relation to these pictures. We have been in contact with the The Daily Star newdesk this morning and are currently awaiting a response.

We are also seeking legal advice on the matter and intend to follow through with this until a satisfactory outcome is obtained.

Karl

flogen

This is probably going to be an on-going problem, the internet is so big that papers like the Star are going to poach stuff and try and get away with it, I'm sure many items have been ripped off before, just tucked away in the middle somewhere and overlooked

mycroft

flogen wrote:

This is probably going to be an on-going problem, the internet is so big that papers like the Star are going to poach stuff and try and get away with it, I'm sure many items have been ripped off before, just tucked away in the middle somewhere and overlooked

I've experience with this, a number of years ago some video I took was liberally lifted by most of the tabloids. The star memoriable appeared to just take screen grabs from a tv broadcast and were of a dubious quality.

The easiest way around it, is to send them an invoice to their photo editor with the follow on threat of legal action. Unfortunately the only way to maintain villigance over repeated abuse, is to keep checking the paper. If I found a paper continously abusing the trust, the invoice amount was increased. Generally does the trick.

flogen

mycroft wrote:

I've experience with this, a number of years ago some video I took was liberally lifted by most of the tabloids. The star memoriable appeared to just take screen grabs from a tv broadcast and were of a dubious quality.

The easiest way around it, is to send them an invoice to their photo editor with the follow on threat of legal action. Unfortunately the only way to maintain villigance over repeated abuse, is to keep checking the paper. If I found a paper continously abusing the trust, the invoice amount was increased. Generally does the trick.

without wanting to get too much personal info from you (!!), did it work? Was there any messing about from the papers (such as detailed in the Mil Millington piece above?)

mycroft

flogen wrote:

without wanting to get too much personal info from you (!!), did it work? Was there any messing about from the papers (such as detailed in the Mil Millington piece above?)

Depended on the paper, The "Irish" editon English tabloids, which are assembled out of dublin could be described as astonishingly indifferent, and nigh on impossible to get a hold of, but it's amazing what the words "repeated and flagranted abuse of copyright", "repeated requested ignored, and treated with rank indifference" and "immediate legal action forthwith" will have, if after your first two attempts, you skip the picture desk and fire off a missive to legal affairs.