Анонимни снимки: изчезващото авторство на онлайн фотографията
Anonymous Images: The Vanishing Authorship of Online Photography

Author(s): Bilyana Jivkova
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Media studies, Communication studies
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: photography; author; authorship; online news media
Summary/Abstract: The article argues that online news sites are dominated by visual content, and that photographs play an important role in news. They help, and in many cases are even essential, in providing news context. Their visual mode is the surest guarantee that the news is more noticeable, but also an incentive for the audience to read further. The publication explores authorship as a concept, discusses the authorship of photographs, as well as some regulatory documents related to copyright and their application in relation to photographic materials. The lack of legal and state regulations in Bulgaria regarding the indication of the author of non-verbal text in the media is also emphasized. In the practical part of the article, an observation of three Bulgarian news sites is conducted in order to track the degree and frequency of the presence of authorship of the photographs used. The observation aims to confirm the hypothesis that in the news media it is a practice not to indicate the names of the authors of the images.

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