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Getty Images Letter Forum / First Sale rights question
« on: December 15, 2016, 01:59:26 PM »
I tried doing a search to my question in the forum but I couldn't find a satisfactory answer. Question: A photog sells a crime photo to a tabloid newspaper of a crime committed. A blogger comes along and writes a news story about the crime and uses the photo of the perp in the story. Months later the blogger gets a demand letter for thousands of dollars from a lawyer representing the photographer.
Didn't the photog give the rights to the photo buy selling it to the newspaper? Isn't the blogger protected under the copyright law under "fair use" by using sad photo for news reporting a real event to benefit the community notifying them of a dangerous criminal?
Didn't the photog give the rights to the photo buy selling it to the newspaper? Isn't the blogger protected under the copyright law under "fair use" by using sad photo for news reporting a real event to benefit the community notifying them of a dangerous criminal?