by gavinmac » Mon May 09, 2016 9:30 am
Cambodia Daily used this photo, apparently not their photo, they just captioned it as "a photograph shared widely on Facebook."
I find their use of this photo without permission to be quite hypocritical, because Bernie Krisher has a reputation of aggressively asserting his paper's intellectual property rights. For example, back in 2004, he
published an editorial complaining that Radio Free Asia was using content from the Cambodia Daily:
For years, RFA has been scanning and illegally transmitting electronically our full content to its offices in Bangkok and Washington, where our work has been reproduced in print and distributed to their staff to be used for their work.
Such electronic transmission of someone else’s copyrighted materialhas been shown to be illegal under US law. RFA sticks out its nose when we have placed a complaint, and I have thus filed a legal claim here in the courts in Phnom Penh. The case is under review and I’m hopeful justice will prevail.
Cambodia Daily has also been critical of the Khmer Times' unprofessionalism and plagiarism. I don't think they can have it both ways. When it suits them, Cambodia Daily acts like they are paragons of journalistic professionalism. But then when they see a photo they like on Facebook, they just say "Fuck it, we're in Cambodia" and publish the photo in their paper.
Cambodia Daily used this photo, apparently not their photo, they just captioned it as "a photograph shared widely on Facebook."
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I find their use of this photo without permission to be quite hypocritical, because Bernie Krisher has a reputation of aggressively asserting his paper's intellectual property rights. For example, back in 2004, he [url=https://www.cambodiadaily.com/opinion/is-radio-free-asia-relevant-1727/]published an editorial[/url] complaining that Radio Free Asia was using content from the Cambodia Daily:
[quote]For years, RFA has been scanning and illegally transmitting electronically our full content to its offices in Bangkok and Washington, where our work has been reproduced in print and distributed to their staff to be used for their work.
Such electronic transmission of someone else’s copyrighted materialhas been shown to be illegal under US law. RFA sticks out its nose when we have placed a complaint, and I have thus filed a legal claim here in the courts in Phnom Penh. The case is under review and I’m hopeful justice will prevail.[/quote]
Cambodia Daily has also been critical of the Khmer Times' unprofessionalism and plagiarism. I don't think they can have it both ways. When it suits them, Cambodia Daily acts like they are paragons of journalistic professionalism. But then when they see a photo they like on Facebook, they just say "Fuck it, we're in Cambodia" and publish the photo in their paper.