Photo Komersilkan People, Prepare Indemnity

Wearing someone else's photos for commercial purposes without permission and owner , can have fatal consequences . Especially if you are doing enterprise - caliber Agence France Presse ( AFP ) and Getty Images .

Both the photo agencies are required to pay a fine of $ 1.2 million in damages alleged misuse of photos belong to a photographer named Daniel Morel . At that time , Morel upload to Twitter , a photo by the earthquake disaster in Haiti , January 12, 2010 ago .

Not long ago , after photos are uploaded to the network of 140 characters , the AFP also participate downloading and pass it even without the consent of Getty Images to Morel . Worse , another Twitter user of the Dominican Republic also upload the same photo and claimed copyright to the photo , such as quoted from IBTimes , Monday ( 25/11/2013 ) .

Morel and his lawyers have submitted this problem and hope that both agencies want to delete the picture . However the opposite , instead accusing AFP Morel had slandered their company .

AFP also defended himself by saying that the photo posted on Twitter is open to be reproduced for commercial purposes ( commercial reuse) . But in fact , the policy on Twitter - although allow shared or retweeted the photo, does not permit commercial use .

Finally, the final decision came out . The federal jury has decided that AFP and Getty Images guilty in this case and required to pay damages caused . There has been no response from both the photo agency of the decision of this court .

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