Important news for press photography in the UK
Here’s a date for your diary: Tuesday the 7th of February. “Why?” I hear you ask, well it is the day when The BPPA will finally get to appear before the Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practice & ethics of the press.
In our main submission to Lord Justice Leveson’s Inquiry we proposed a four-pronged solution to the issues raised in connection to photography at the hearings to date:
- Make the publishers of websites, blogs, magazines and newspapers and their editors financially and professionally responsible for any lack of due diligence in checking how, where and why pictures that they are publishing were taken. Photographs acquired from citizen journalists, CCTV systems and inexperienced photographers should have a clear and strict series of tests applied before publication to verify their provenance
- Images purchased from holders of UK Press Cards or from reputable agencies that are members of a United Kingdom…
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Thanks. I commented on the BPPA site. I would hate for the privileges that are being asked for in respect of accredited photographers to result in a lessening of rights for non-accredited photographers.
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I don’t think that anyone is trying to further restrict the rights of photographers to take pictures in any way.
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All the best tomorrow Neil, hope it goes well, we really appreciate what you are doing. Will be recording it. Keith
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