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Photojournalist wins $1.2M in copyright lawsuit

Haitian photographer Daniel Morel has been awarded $1.2 Million by a US judge in a nasty copyright infringement lawsuit against Getty Images and Agence France-Presse. This decision is not only a major win for Morel and serious damage to the reputations of the two international news agencies for what the judge called, willful copyright infringement, it will also be a precedent setting ruling that defines the use and distribution of copyrighted images on the internet and social media websites with their Term of Use agreements that lays claims to photos that people post to their accounts. The case is one

Manthorpe: Philippines politics still stormy after Haiyen

F&O international affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe examines the chaos that typhoon Haiyan made of  the Philippines’ presidential campaign. An excerpt:  When aid arrived this week in the Philippines’ Capiz region devastated by typhoon Haiyan, some of it came in tasteful blue bags decorated in prominent white letters with the name of Vice-President Jejomar Binay and adorned with his official logo of office. Social media in the Philippines went viral with criticism of Binay, calling him “epal” – someone constantly trying to draw attention to himself. A stream of bitter messages accused him of using the horror of the typhoon …. read

Where were you when Kennedy was shot?

Fifty years ago today the world lost two major figures, two men who made a difference in the world: American President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, and British author Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World. It is disconcertingly poignant that Kennedy’s famous death so thoroughly overshadows the passing of Huxley, whose novel famously foretold so much about today’s new world. F&O writer Brian Brennan’s vignette about Kennedy in his ancestral homeland of Ireland, JFK: The Murdered King, is here. (Day pass or subscription needed.) 

Who caused climate change?

Facts and Opinions reports on a new study that fingers 90 companies for some 2/3 of all emissions behind human-caused climate change. Excerpt: International debates about climate change, such as the United Nation talks now underway in Warsaw, have lately focused on blaming nations and which of them should pay the bills. That changed today, with new research that claims just 90 companies are responsible for two-thirds of emissions linked with human-caused global warming. Report author Richard Heede is upfront about his purpose: to change the game — and to name and shame. Heede lists 90 companies, most of them producers

Science interpretation for dummies – from lawmakers to journalists

That science is under siege has become a truism. Every conversation I have with a scientist, almost every public issue debate, every story I do about global crises, touches on censorship, religious and ideological beliefs, and a lack of education. Three scientists aim to address that in a new commentary published in Nature. “There are serious problems in the application of science to policy,” note the authors, but the usual solutions  proposed, to increase political involvement by scientists, or give more scientific advisers more power, are unrealistic. Worse, they say, those fixes ignore what they call the core problem: scientific ignorance among lawmakers. William J. Sutherland, David Spiegelhalter and Mark

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