Posted on 11/17/2004 6:14:09 PM PST by Sue Bob
I discussed here how the MSM is making Kevin Sites its personal hero of Fallujah. WorldNetDaily.com has even more information on Sites--and it isn't pretty:
Kevin Sites, the NBC cameraman who shot video of the controversial shooting of a Fallujah insurgent by a U.S. Marine, is an anti-war activist whose photographs of Iraqi prisoners are featured on at least one anti-war website.
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He is an "anti-war activist" to the extent that other people have illegally copied his photos (violating copyright) and put them in their anti-war websites. Shame on WND.
I saw that! You're right, it ain't perty at all.
The real story: what we're seeing here is a major re-alignment of the free press. People are turning out or outright verbally attacking what they see as media bias, and it will hurt the Old Media far worse than they realise. We'll see who's left standing - the Old Media, the New Media, or a conglomeration of the two?
If I'm not mistaken, he had to submit those photographs to "Images Against War". It's more about marketing though, than ideology...
The site has two pages with his name. How do you know the site is violating copyright as opposed to Sites's contributing to it.
If you have a source for that--I'll post it.
Gladly. LGF/Xeni Jardin are completely trustworthy, so far as I know.
Thanks--I updated my post with this.
I went to LGF and read the statement by Jardin - just scanned the comments, though. One thing that stuck out at me, though. Nowhere do I see any indication that Xeni Jardin (or his (her?)attorney) has actually written the webmaster at Images Against War and demanded that they stop violating copyright. Saying that the images are being used without permission is meaningless if the copyright holder is not willing to enforce it.
Another weird aspect is that on the Images Against War website there is a copyright disclaimer emphasizing that the images belong to the photographers and cannot be copied.
http://www.imagesagainstwar.com/imprint.php
Are the Sites' images still posted over there? "Xeni Jardin" wrote that LGF comment several hours ago. If the images are still up, then either Images Against War hasn't been ordered to cease and desist, or they have been and are simply ignoring the order.
Yes, they are:
http://www.imagesagainstwar.com/index.php?display=521
http://www.imagesagainstwar.com/index.php?display=522
Thank you for the update. I had been to LGF earlier and Xeni's letter had not been posted yet.
In all truth, you get your money/exposure where you can when you freelance, so it's not uncommon to submit to all kinds of sites. Publicity is publicity - however, the "Images against War" site gallery makes it sound like these are submissions, as opposed to postings since they call it a "gallery"...
Thank you for the update. I had been to LGF earlier and Xeni's letter had not been posted yet.
In all truth, you get your money/exposure where you can when you freelance, so it's not uncommon to submit to all kinds of sites. Publicity is publicity - however, the "Images against War" site gallery makes it sound like these are submissions, as opposed to postings since they call it a "gallery"...
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