The photo.

A Dave's poster brought up an interesting point (scroll to the bottom of the page). The photographs of the naked child on the balcony were taken by the foreign neighbor across the street. It has run on the TV reports and has accompanied all the news articles. But it is marked as copyright of Ohmynews. As the foreigner didn't write the article, did the Ohmynews reporter usurp the rights to the photo when s/he was alerted to the abuse? Will the photographer be given any compensation for them? Will she even get credit? Did the photographer sell the pictures, or did they automatically become property of Ohmynews? I'm not sure how something like that would work with open source journalism, whether in Korea or in the States. It's not that unusual to see home videos or private photographs used in news stories back home, and I wonder where credit/copyright goes in those cases. I'm not saying the photographer ought to be looking to make a buck, but if money does go to Ohmynews for the rights to the photograph, shouldn't that money be hers?