Being a publisher as well as all the other things I do, I imagine a few of you might be wondering what I think of Hachette Filipacchi’s new magazine, Shock (the North American version of Choc), with an initial run of 300,000. I don’t think I could say it any better than Michael Yon, the photographer who took the cover photograph, only to see it used without his permission to dishonour US troops and to force a parallel between the Iraq and Vietnam wars.
   Mr Yon’s blog post is one of the clearest on the matter—and another sign how blogs are far better resources when you can go directly to the person at issue.
   Copyright law is fairly clear on the matter—more so under French law where there is a droit moral de l’auteur—and I am surprised to note that Hachette may have got this wrong. Offending a photographer’s intent should be one of the last things a magazine does—especially one that relies so heavily on the pictorial.

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