Week 2 Entry

Copyright-Exclusive rights given to an individual or group to protect their created idea, image, or other piece of work that can only be reproduced with permission from the original creator.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/08/28/ramsey.arrest/index.html, Picture 3 in slideshow

http://www.denverpost.com/jonbenet Picture on main page

These two pictures appear to be, upon review of the rules of copyright, clear cut examples of copyright infringement. According to the exclusive coverage given to the photography company ZUMA by the child beauty pageants, the only people allowed to distribute the pictures are the photographers who originally took them for ZUMA. For the first picture, the only attribution given is to KUSA news, but no credit back to ZUMA, and the second picture has no attribution on it at all. What appears to be happening is that the various news sources, especially CNN and the Denver Post shown here, are taking advantage of ZUMA’s reluctance to take this case to court and using loopholes that don’t apply in this case, such as fair use and public police documents.