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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.

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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