What's free and what's not: copyright and the social media

Poynter recounted Shawna Malvin Redden's first-hand experience on how quickly the press can pick up material from social media websites and use it in news reporting. When her plane emergency landed in Yuma, Arizona, because of a hole in the fuselage, Redden updated her Twitter account with pictures of the damaged plane. During the two hours the passengers waited for another plane to arrive, her...