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Haiti: a legal battle between a freelance photographer and AFP

(Source: 20minutes.fr)

Mounting a photo (left) taken of the earthquake in Haiti in Port-au-Prince January 12, 2010 by Daniel Morel and credited AFP PHOTO / LISANDRO SUERO and message (right) proposed by the AFP on the pictures of Daniel Morel DANIEL MOREL / 20 MINUTES

MEDIA - News Agency refuses to repay the copyright after resuming his photos on Twitter ...

If you are looking for pictures of Daniel Morel on the photo site of the AFP, you simply find this message: "Due to a rights issue, we ask you to remove and destroy all of your programs Photos taken in Haiti by Daniel Morel. "

Photos that will travel around the world without compensation

The Haitian demand freelance photographer indeed accountable to the French news agency since January. Reason? It was used with impunity Photo earthquake he had posted on Twitter , via his account Twitpic never pay back any copyright.

Yet he who is the author of a photograph that made the headlines of the world world in the aftermath of disaster: a young woman covered in dust trying vainly to get out of the rubble of a building in Port-au-Prince.

Lisandro Suero, pirate Dominican

Already on site, Daniel Morel, a former photographer for the AP, provided the first pictures of the drama. Except it took very little time for a certain Lisandro Suero, simple surfer Dominican Republic, resume your photos and installs them on his own behalf.

Daniel Morel does not respond to requests for images, AFP photographers in the absence of his agency there, was served immediately with Lisandro Suero, open to any proposal. The news agency has so clearly stated the source of his shots, but crediting the pirate, not Daniel Morel, the original author.

Twitter / Twitpic a different regulation

latter then spent recent months to seek compensation from the news agency. Arguing that in any way, the photos are published free for Twitter, the AFP has gone up file a complaint against the photographer Haiti, March 26, for "trade libel."

Except that the pictures from the site microblogging actually come from Twitpic his avatar photo to him, does not oppose the Regulations: "All rights belong to their images uploaded respective owners. "AFP is necessarily wrong and Daniel Morel has also decided to go free.

replica judicial Daniel Morel

On April 21, he sued in U.S. court AFP, but Getty Images (by which the AFP had risen to distribute their images) and American television, for infringement of copyright. Daniel Morel claims include $ 150,000 (about 120,000 euros) for each unauthorized use of his photos.

"The outcome of this case will have implications for all those who use social networks and the practice of journalism on the Internet," said Barbara Hoffman, counsel for Daniel Morel, the Australian newspaper The Australian . 20minutes.fr contacted by the AFP, which had already been guilty of airing in January of photos of the earthquake in Sichuan (China) instead of that of Haiti , declined to comment .

Corentin Chauvel