The President of the National Association of Press Agencies criticized the new Daily Telegraph’s payment rates of photos obtained from social media as “insulting” and “beyond the joke.”
The row is associated with the new “technical service rate” at the value of the 10 pounds presented by The Telegraph for the photos presented without verification or RightSholder permits.
Harris was reported by mistake that this new rate will apply to the pictures of its agency, based in Manchester Cavandish PressDespite its steps to verify the content it provides and obtaining relevant permissions.
Since then, a batch of 10 pounds has been recorded from a picture of up to 25 pounds, but Harris confirms that the rate, “both for us or” technical companies “, is an insult greater than 25 pounds that we currently get.”
In the past, the absolute minimum of the payment provided by Telegraph was 20 pounds to seize the online video or 25 pounds to use digital images only. Pictures used on one column of the newspaper brought 45 pounds sterling and those who cross two earn 90 pounds.
Harris said: “What I am afraid of will happen is that the telegraph will routinely pay a rate of 10 pounds on all social media images offered, forcing the independent to claim balance – spending time, and more effort, and therefore there are expenses forced to explain how they get the image. It is a penny in my opinion, and no one should accept the rate.”
He said: “This is the last image rate of 10 pounds that goes beyond the joke. From the insult to independent chapters who work hard a day a day to provide invaluable content for Telegraph news.
“The fees that you are currently paying are already low in ridicule, but the demand to pay Teenner to us represents” courtesy of confession “that our contribution is the one that goes beyond belief. It is the lowest new level in the way in which independents are dealt with in general.”
He added: “The telegraph should recognize the amount of work that enters into obtaining sources of photo collection from social media as part of a news story.
Often any good independent business owners in the court or on a door threshold will verify who this person is in the picture – not only to justify their work but also to alleviate the chances of the post that provides them with the prosecution of defamation.
“We are doing this very important service to the publisher as much as themselves – but all that takes time, money and effort.”
Before submitting a 10 -pound fee, Harris said that the vulgar rate card was last updated in 2013, because when inflation is 37 %.
He added that the average of 10 pounds was “behind a joke” and “an insult to independent chamber.”
“The fees he currently pays are already low in ridicule, but the demand to pay Teenner to us represents” courtesy of confession “that our contribution goes beyond belief.”
This criticism comes in the same month in which another agency president, Mike Ledege, rejected the newspapers associated with the provincial court after Mail online refused to pay a photo that Leidig, newsx, had obtained its source. The mail, who claims to have obtained the image from Facebook, argues that Leidig cannot request payment through an image that the copyright does not possess.
Last year, Harris complained that the prices of “Decinsian” paid by Sun and Times Publisher News UK to press agencies remained fixed for four decades.
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