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journos abusing online forums 22-Jan-2009 At 12:33:20 PM CraigS

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At the risk of only creating more confusion as to what copyright protects, the quote that Neil has posted from the Copyright Council's website is a bit confusing insofar as it might suggest that there can't be copyright in a photograph of a person (which is plainly wrong). The main point of that paragraph is simply that you can't stop someone from taking a photograph of you (or publishing that photo) by asserting that you own copyright in your own image.

Also, without getting into the detail of it, there is an exception to copyright infringement for reporting news. This means that in certain circumstances a newspaper would be able to copy a photograph from an online source if it is reasonably connected to a news event that they are reporting on, and this won't infringe copyright. The Copyright Council has an information sheet on this here: http://www.copyright.org.au/G079.pdf

This isn't a comment on what is right or wrong ethically, just some clarification on what the copyright position is.