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journos abusing online forums 21-Jan-2009 At 6:54:39 PM Loz and Tim

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"FAIRNESS >>Staff will use fair, honest and responsible means to obtain material.
>They will identify >themselves and the newspaper before obtaining interviews
>or images." Interesting to read Sydney Morning Heralds code of conduct above- wonder what Daily Telegraph's code of conduct is?!

We happened to find out on the day of our good friend, Nicks funeral, that an image was taken directly from our flickr.com account without permission, despite the photo having copyright on it and used in an article for the Daily Telegraph. Not sure what the rules are around taking copyright images from online (anyone know?), but an e-mail from the Daily Telegraph to let us know they are using our image or asking permission prior to publishing would have been polite. Guess it comes down to what everyone is saying about newspapers/reporters using some "Respect" and communication skills.

Here is the Daily Telegraph article (not sure who wrote it- we didnt see the article) without any reference to where the picture came from. http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,,24871444-5001021,00.html

Here is the picture from flickr where it was taken, edited and says copyright (right hand side) http://www.flickr.com/photos/loz82j/1389559765/

So guess it not just text that can be taken from online forums/sites, but images can be edited and used too....without consent, discussion or despite copyright. Also, Flickr has a function to contact the account holder by e-mail, I suppose that would be courteous though.

Lauren