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Lord of the Dings
Article (in German) here: http://www.spiegel.de/kultur/gesellschaft/0,1518,652892,00.html
In brief, they ran a shot of a journalist asleep in a chair at a hotel bar during last year's Frankfurt book fair. He sued and won. The court ruled that the photo did not have significant news value, since he was clearly not on the job at the time, and that the journalist's right to his own image was more important.
This may surprise many here, but I support this ruling. Note it's not the photographer being fined, but rather the paper. My take: Sleeping security guards and such -- by all means, newsworthy. But this is one news guy being photographed by another. Where's the news interest? Smells like "gotcha!" to me.
In brief, they ran a shot of a journalist asleep in a chair at a hotel bar during last year's Frankfurt book fair. He sued and won. The court ruled that the photo did not have significant news value, since he was clearly not on the job at the time, and that the journalist's right to his own image was more important.
This may surprise many here, but I support this ruling. Note it's not the photographer being fined, but rather the paper. My take: Sleeping security guards and such -- by all means, newsworthy. But this is one news guy being photographed by another. Where's the news interest? Smells like "gotcha!" to me.
David R Munson
写真のオタク
Stupid and completely unnecessary, IMO. This does nobody any good.
btgc
Veteran
Too bad Spiegel doesn't publish questionable picture. Probably it's all about bar, including sleeping journalist, accidentally.