The photo of Trump’s attack that flooded the screen, is the copyright owned by Visual China? Visual China Response

Author: Sanyan Reprinted from: Sanyan Finance (ID: sycaijing) A big news in the past two days - Trump was shot. For a time, related photos and videos went viral on the Internet. Among them, a set of photos of Trump holding his fist high and bleeding from his ears is quite artistic and has been widely circulated.

It is understood that this set of photos was taken by AP photojournalist Evan Vucci, Pulitzer Prize winner. For a time, Evan Vucci was noticed and discussed almost all over the world, and everyone knew that the classic photo was taken by him.

Evan Vucci also posted photos he took related to the attack on Trump on multiple social platforms. Today, Sanyan discovered something interesting. When several domestic media reported relevant content, the source of the relevant photos was marked as Visual China.

Visual China CFP has relevant photos, social media costs 2100 yuan/photo

Sanyan checked and searched Visual China’s website (vcg.com), but no relevant photos were found.

So, Sanyan called Visual China, and the customer service said that such photos were relatively sensitive, and on another website (CFP), they were only open to cooperative customers.

Afterwards, customer service arranged for a specialist to contact Sanyan, who indeed found relevant photos of Trump at CFP.

How much does the photo of Trump’s assassination cost in Visual China?

Visual China specialist said that the price is not necessarily certain, it depends on the specific use.

If it is a self-media article with pictures and used on social media (for publication and use on social media platforms such as Weibo, WeChat, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, Toutiao, etc.), one picture is 2,100 yuan. Purchase one and use it on multiple platforms.

However, different media and self-media may have different charging standards. The other party also emphasized that Visual China only authorizes the use of copyrights, and users need to obtain authorization when it comes to portrait rights and property rights. fenyeVisual China has been involved in copyright disputes many times

In fact, Visual China has repeatedly caused controversy due to copyright issues.

1. As early as 2019, Visual China caused public outrage by including the national flag, national emblem, black hole photos, etc. into its image gallery.
2. On the evening of April 11th of that year, Visual China suspended website operations and began self-examination and rectification. The Cyberspace Administration of China, the Copyright Administration and other competent authorities also successively supervised Visual China. The Tianjin Cyberspace Administration of China moved in to investigate and made decisions. decision to impose a heavy fine.
3. In August last year, starry sky photographer Dai Jianfeng (jeff) posted an article saying that 173 photos he took were notified of infringement by Visual China, and he was also required to pay more than 80,000 yuan in compensation. However, these so-called "infringing photos" were actually taken by myself and have not cooperated with Visual China.
4. In response, Visual China said it was a misunderstanding. After preliminary verification, the pictures in question were sold by jeff’s authorized photo library Stocktrek Images, which in turn authorized the relevant pictures to Getty Images for sales. As the exclusive partner of Getty Images in mainland China, Visual China has complete sales rights to the pictures involved, including the pictures involved. The sales authorization chain for the pictures involved is clear and complete.
5. jeff said that he does not accept the perspective of visual China.
6. jeff said that he checked with stocktrek and was told that Visual China does not have the right to sell his work, nor does he have any copyright in his work. Since then, Stocktrek stated that representatives of Visual China have called the company, and the company has also clearly informed that it needs to remove jeff’s related works from the Visual China website.

   

   Looking from jeff’s Weibo, he has sued Visual China for illegally selling his photos and claiming compensation from him. On January 25 this year, Tianjin Heping District People’s Court will continue to exchange evidence and the court will open the hearing date. Further notice.

Then the photo of Trump was authorized by Stocktrek Images or Getty Images, and then Visual China, as the exclusive partner of Getty Images in mainland China, was indirectly authorized ?

三言 was not found on the Stocktrek website, and the Getty website jumped to the Visual China website, and Getty’s social platform also posted photos of Trump, but from other angles, including It includes a photo of Trump lying on the ground, but the source is from another photographer.

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