{"id":4676,"date":"2011-08-16T10:54:05","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T09:54:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=4676"},"modified":"2011-08-16T10:56:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-16T09:56:18","slug":"the-bbc-will-ignore-image-copyright-if-its-in-the-public-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2011\/08\/the-bbc-will-ignore-image-copyright-if-its-in-the-public-interest\/","title":{"rendered":"The BBC will ignore image copyright if it’s “in the public interest”"},"content":{"rendered":"

So the BBC have clarified their comments<\/a> about using pictures from Social Media sites (such as Twitter) without checking licencing conditions or attempting to contact the owner:<\/p>\n

…where there is a strong public interest and often time constraints, such as a major news story like the recent Norway attacks or rioting in England, we may use a photo before we’ve cleared it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So it’s publish first and hope nobody notices? Do they keep trying to make contact after publication? Or hope nobody makes a fuss? Or invoices them? A quick glance at the Freelance Fees Guide<\/a> for online pictures suggests \u00a0a 600×400 picture, for six months of editorial use online could be charged at \u00a3230. Don’t forget every time that a picture is lifted from social media, that’s one less picture commissioned from a photo journalist.<\/p>\n

Spin it another way – if I had a copy of The Tenth Planet part 4<\/em>, but “couldn’t find the person in the BBC who deals with the copyright” can I just stick it up on my website? Or behind a paywall to help with hosting? There’s a strong public interest argument for Doctor Who fans on that one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So the BBC have clarified their comments about using pictures from Social Media sites (such as Twitter) without checking licencing conditions or attempting to contact the owner: …where there is a strong public interest and often time constraints, such as a major news story like the recent Norway attacks or rioting in England, we may use a photo before we’ve cleared it. So it’s publish first and hope nobody notices? Do they keep trying to make contact after publication? Or hope nobody makes a fuss? Or invoices them? A quick glance at the Freelance Fees Guide for online pictures suggests<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25,52],"tags":[230,2312,80],"class_list":["post-4676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","category-web-2point0","tag-bbc","tag-copyright","tag-images","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1dq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}