Mediagazer: Who Gets The Copyright On The Photo Of A Beaten Gaddafi, Captured Off A Cameraphone (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)

6:45 AM ET, October 22, 2011

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Marisa Guthrie / Hollywood Reporter:

News Organizations Defend Airing Gruesome Gadhafi Death Video … NEW YORK - News organizations are defending airing the grim video of deposed Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi's lifeless, bloodied body being kicked and dragged through the streets near his hometown of Sirte.

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Mike Masnick / Techdirt:

Who Gets The Copyright On The Photo Of A Beaten Gaddafi, Captured Off A Cameraphone — The AFP news agency (with its partner Getty) has a bit of a history with some rather odd copyright claims. You may recall the lawsuit that AFP was involved in after it yanked photos from Twitpic …

Mary Hockaday / BBC:
The challenges of reporting Gaddafi's death

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Julie Moos / Poynter:
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MI5 References Emerge in Phone Hacking Lawsuit — A British private detective at the center of the phone hacking scandal that has shaken Rupert Murdoch's media empire cited the MI5 file of a close friend of Princes William and Harry in notes he kept on his work for the tabloid The News of the World, according to a suit filed in London.

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Jeff Bercovici / Mixed Media:

Why Other Papers Aren't Racing to Copy the NYT Paywall — Image by Getty Images North America via @daylife — It's been an odd week for paywall-watchers. On the one hand, you had The New York Times reporting extraordinarily good news about its six-month-old digital turnstile.

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