Shepard Fairey - TVNewser http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser And Now the News...About TV News Copyright 2013 Thu, 23 May 2013 14:46:03 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 The Ticker: Fairey, Fives, JibJab… > Shepard Fairey, the artist at the center of a suit-countersuit with the AP will be on The Rachel Maddow Show tonight on MSNBC. Earlier, we wrote about ABC News president David Westin‘s take on the matter via an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal.

> Tomorrow, Good Morning America Weekend will air a portion of this Funny or Die video. It’s the High-Five guys doing their thing with the GMA crew inside, and outside, ABC’s Times Square studios.

> FBN’s Eric Bolling‘s has been JibJabbed. During his hour on Foxnews.com’s The Strategy Room Bolling played a JibJab video sent in by a viewer that features him and his fellow “Happy Hour” co-hosts taking some government bailout money. Click continued to see it…

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]]> Chris Ariens http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/the-ticker-fairey-fives-jibjab_b29216#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/the-ticker-fairey-fives-jibjab_b29216 http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/the-ticker-fairey-fives-jibjab_b29216 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:38:39 +0000 ABC’s Westin: Don’t Let “the Free Be the Enemy of the Flow” freeflow.gifABC News president, and Associated Press board member David Westin wrote an opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal. It’s about the suit and countersuit between the AP and artist Shepard Fairey. Fairey’s artistic take of an AP-licensed photo of Barack Obama became the iconic image of Obama’s presidential campaign.

At first blush, this might seem to be merely a dispute between a large company and a single individual over money. But the principles at stake are greater than that. News organizations such as the Associated Press (and, for that matter, ABC News) invest hundreds of millions of dollars each year in gathering the news and reporting it to the public.

At ABC News, we carefully review any proposed use of others’ material in our reporting to be sure it truly qualifies as a fair use under the copyright laws. If it is not, we license the material we need to use or do without. There are also other well-established fair-use exceptions for brief uses of copyrighted materials in commentary, criticism and academic work.

It may sound nice to talk in terms of making the use of our reporting “free.” But we must not take away the means by which we obtain the information in the first place. We must not let the free be the enemy of the “flow” when it comes to the free flow of information.

By the way, we’re going to go with fair use in our excerpting of this opinion piece from The Wall Street Journal. But we’ll give it an extra link, too. As for the Westin picture, we went all Shepard Fairey with Paste‘s Obamicon.me feature.

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]]> Chris Ariens http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/abcs-westin-dont-let-the-free-be-the-enemy-of-the-flow_b29227#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/abcs-westin-dont-let-the-free-be-the-enemy-of-the-flow_b29227 http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/abcs-westin-dont-let-the-free-be-the-enemy-of-the-flow_b29227 Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:34:52 +0000