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November 07, 2007
Arkansas Latest In Limiting Photographer's Rights
It seems that everyone is reading from the same playbook on limiting the rights of photographers, even if the photographer is the parent of a player in a state championship game.
Today we welcome the Arkansas Activities Association (AAA) to the hall of shame. The AAA is the sponsoring organization of championship games for public and private schools. The news came from the Times Record in Fort Smith Arkansas in both an article and editorial.
Here are a couple of gems from the AAA's policy:
- “As this policy is written, a parent in the stands couldn’t take a picture of his own child and post it on the family blog or Web site (which might have ads),” said Mark Hinueber, vice president and general counsel for Stephens Media.
- Still photos, video, and audio can only be used for 24 hrs after the event. After which the AAA would own the rights.
Unfortunately as I was writing this the AAA's website was curiously down.....hmmm. Fortunately through the wonder of Google, I was able to view a cached version of their website.
We will see what happens when later this week Arkansas has their state football championships and the Times Record plans to runs pictures from the event.
Posted by Allen Clark at November 7, 2007 10:04 PM
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