There is related lawsuit pending between a professional photographer and Agence France Presse, who stole the photographer's photos of the Haiti earthquake from

There is related lawsuit pending between a professional photographer and Agence France Presse, who stole the photographer's photos of the Haiti earthquake from TwitPic without permission, and sold them to newspapers around the world via an agreement with Getty Images. They claim that the TwitPic TOS allowed them to use (and profit) from the images, and even further, their initial filing even went so far as to say something along the lines of "well, you posted it on the internet, so that means it's in the public domain". http://copymarkblog.com/2011/05/11/twitpic-photographs-and-copyright-law/ http://copymarkblog.com/2011/05/11/twitpic-photographs-and-c... http://paidcontent.org/article/419-in-lawsuit-wire-service-afp-says-twitter-pictures-are-free-for-taking/ http://paidcontent.org/article/419-in-lawsuit-wire-service-a...