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11-14-12 Laws and Ethics Study Guide Questions:

1. Things to know for the test:

2. What is the difference between breaking photojournalist ethics and breaking the law?

3. What are some of the scenarios we discussed?invasion of privacy and libel and copyright

4. What are the four things a photojournalists can be sued for? copyright,libel,invasion of privacy, infringement                                                                                                                                    5. What is libel?photoshopped false photo

6. What can you do to make sure you are not sued for libel?get signatures

7. What is the best defense against libel?signatures

8. What is invasion of privacy?taking pictures of nude without permission

9. When does a private citizen lose the right to privacy?when their in public

10. What is obscenity?extremely offensive images

11. What is the LAPS test?part of criteria in determining obscenity.

12. What is copyright?taking credit for someone else’s work

13. What should you do to avoid being sued for copyright infringement?have filed signatures

14. As a media representative, in which of these cases can you legally shoot a newsworthy event on private property? fire 

15. If someone threatens to sue your paper for libel for a picture that damaged their reputation, what could you do to avoid it? it was in public so your ok

16. If you wanted to pursue photojournalism in college, which school should you attend? missouri