Posts by Russell Brown
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Capture: Howling at the Moon, in reply to JacksonP,
I actually asked them, admittedly via open twitter, but reasonably nicely, what the Herald policy was on using photos off social media.
It's not just photos, it's the ethics of delving into kids' profiles. I wrote about the NZ media's disgraceful speculation around the disappearance of Marie Davis in 2008.
Things were different in the case of another tragic loss of a young life – that of Christ-church 15-year-old Marie Davis. TV news bulletins and newspapers treated Bebo – where Marie clearly had a lively presence – as fodder for speculation.
The majority latched on to a similarity between the name of one of her profiles, “towards darkness”, and Towards Darkness, a new film about the kidnapping of a young photographer in Colombia. What were they implying? A staged disappearance? At any rate, none of them went so far as to check whether the film had ever screened here. It hadn’t – indeed, at the time of Marie’s disappearance, it had had exactly five cinematic screenings, all in the United States. She couldn’t have seen it.
The Sunday Star-Times went further, devoting half its front page to an ominous story about Bebo on the basis of a single comment from Marie’s mother.
Sadly, it was discovered that Marie Davis had been raped and murdered by a man known to the family. No one ever said sorry for abusing the contents of her Bebo page to suggest she'd staged her disappearance.
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Capture: Howling at the Moon, in reply to Petra Jane,
On Monday I did a quick straw poll of friends who work as journalists, and none of their workplaces had a policy about using images from social media, and none of them could recall covering the topic in the Grad Dip Journalism.
And THIS is the problem.
I make mention of the lack of an ethical and professional framework around the use of social media content in nearly every talk I give on this area, including one to Annie Goldson's students last month. It never seems to improve.
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Yesterday afternoon, down at Whakatane harbour. It’s the sun, not the moon, but it seems to fit the mood of the moon images.
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Capture: Howling at the Moon, in reply to Alex Efimoff,
Last night somewhere in between Auckland and Wellington, up above the clouds :)
Godammit Alex, you even take great opportunist airplane window snaps.
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Hard News: The Great Unwinding, in reply to nzlemming,
Just because Murdoch is an arsehole, though, doesn’t mean the Nats are actually in bed with him. They can just as easily take advantage of the climate he creates
In the interview I did with him today, Bryan Gould suggested that Murdoch doesn't need to seek regulatory favours here as he has in Britain, because there is essentially no regulation at all of his company's actions. Why bother, basically.
The interview will be excerpted on the show itself and posted in full on the TVNZ website.
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Capture: Howling at the Moon, in reply to Fooman,
Some libraries have this sorted out, and simply ask for acknowledgement as the source of the image. Others claim copyright on faithful copies of public domain images. Which doesn’t sit well with me.
Me neither, although there has been a strong commons culture at the National Library in recent years.
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Capture: Howling at the Moon, in reply to Steve Barnes,
She captures it well I think.
That's an extraordinary picture.
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Hard News: Telling stories about us, in reply to Kumara Republic,
No shit, Sherlock…
'Fears ‘The GC’ will put Kiwis off visiting the Gold Coast'
The party scene that takes up the second half of the first episode is the opposite of my idea of a good party, I'll give you that.
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Capture: Howling at the Moon, in reply to Hebe,
So I can borrow an umbrella or a coat from Bally's, as long as I return it soon after? Doesn't sound right to me.
As Sacha notes, you haven't deprived them of it in the first place. You've created a copy. They still have the original.
The lines in any reasonable view of copyright are very fuzzy. We've all watched infringing YouTube videos and laughed at viral pictures. Important images of war and peace always transcend their copyright status.
The copyright maximalist world would be a horrible one, and out of step with reality. Several submitters to the last round of copyright law amendments were still trying to limit the right to make temporary copies -- i.e.: load a web page in one's browser.
Some news companies have tried to demand permission for bloggers to quote -- or even link to -- their content. The TV show I present relies heavily some weeks on the "for purposes of criticism and review" part of the Copyright Act.
A case like Jackson's rests more, I think, on things around being a good internet citizen.
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Capture: Howling at the Moon, in reply to Jos,
here's my measly attempt, lacebark tree in the foreground.
Super! My first thought was photo-collage. But no!
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