The jury found that the French news agency Agence France-Presse and its American distributor Getty Images willfully infringed on the photographer’s copyright when it obtained the photographs from Twitter, where they had been wrongfully re-posted by another Twitter user who claimed they were his.
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Photog Wins Twitter Pic Copyright Dispute
In a ruling that reinforces photographers’ rights in the era of social media, a Manhattan jury last week awarded $1.22 million to a photographer whose pictures of the 2010 Haitian earthquake were sold without his permission after he posted them on Twitter. So The New York Times reports.
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