This Is Twitter, There Are Rules: How AFP Stole a Photographer's Work, Then Sued Him

The Russian Photos Blog has a really fantastic timeline of Agence-France Presse's interactions with one Daniel Morel, a photographer whose shots of Haiti immediately post-earthquake became the de rigeur illustrations of the trauma there. For the full, nearly minute-by-minute timeline, read the original post. I'll lay it out quickly so we can get to the discussion of Twitter as a news outlet.

Morel, a photographer formerly employed by the Associated Press, was in Port-au-Prince when the...