last comment on page:<p>Chris Hamilton - BBC News Social Media Editor says:
August 13, 2011 at 3:37 pm<p>We’re checking out the complaint response quoted above but, on the face of it, it’s wrong and isn’t the position of BBC News.<p>In fact, we make every effort to contact people, as copyright holders, who’ve taken photos we want to use in our coverage.<p>In exceptional situations, ie a major news story, where there is a strong public interest in making a photo available to a wide audience, we may seek clearance after we’ve first used it.<p>We want to do right by potential contributors and our audience – it’s not in our interests to annoy them – and this is a good opportunity to remind ourselves of that.