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Coronado Bridge photo final blow to 97-3 comedy radio
Apparently, research is not your forte--you definitely didn't bother to look me up. Way to assume (wrongly) that I am male. Newsflash: lots of attorneys are women. As I understand it, a journalist is expected to fact check before publishing. So the subject said X and Y? You need to confirm that X and Y are actual facts, not just the subject's opinion. Here, the photographer is not a legal expert and got the law wrong, that's all I pointed out. You, as the writer, owe a duty to your readers to get it right. It isn't my place to contact the photographer and correct him--he didn't write the story, you did. Did you even speak to his attorney? While Mr. Liebowitz has some ethical concerns in his NY practice (which, by the way, is NOT in NYC) (see, e.g., http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/lawyer_who…), he could have explained about how a photographer creates a copyright in her/his photograph at the moment of creation, etc. I expect better of any publication, even the SD Reader. Facts matter.— September 21, 2018 8:40 a.m.
Coronado Bridge photo final blow to 97-3 comedy radio
Next time you run a story about copyright, you might want to actually interview a copyright attorney. I am one and I work almost exclusively with photographers; there is so very much wrong with this piece, I can't even begin to explain. I'm glad the photographer got a settlement, but just about everything legal-related in this article is incorrect. As someone else mentioned, copyright exists at the moment of creation. Registration permits a different kind of (and generally greater amount of) damages to be awarded. And photographers go up against (big) corporations all the time, and win. This is not an unusual story.— September 20, 2018 5:10 p.m.