Court artists

[UKSBD]

I know they aren't allowed to use photos but why in this age of digital images and stock photography are the BBC still paying court artists?

What value does this image add to the article, when the BBC must have rights to so many other images?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36737465

 

[MikeJ]

I guess it's an agency thing - the BBC sign up to an agreement that gives them free use of court artists.

I don't know why there isn't an official court photographer, that has to have their images ok'd by the judge before they're released to the press.

 

[billmccallum1957]

its an interesting trivia thing, but does it need to be the time out section?

 

[JEREMY HAWKE]

The BBc are not paying for it we are .So they wont find a cheaper way as nobody has to take ownership for their actions

 

[Scalloway]

I don't know why there isn't an official court photographer, that has to have their images ok'd by the judge before they're released to the press.

There is a pile of arguments given as to why photographs aren't allowed in court and some are given here.

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/committee-warns-on-cameras-in-court/68478.fullarticle

 

[obscure]

What value does this image add to the article, when the BBC must have rights to so many other images?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36737465

Because they don't have rights to an image of the accused (or a famous witness) standing in the court room. A sketch of that is better than a library photo of the accused with a blanket over their head in the back of a van.

 

[obscure]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36737465

I am gonna bet money that Max paid the court artist to draw a person who looked nothing like him

 

[MikeJ]

There is a pile of arguments given as to why photographs aren't allowed in court and some are given here.

http://www.lawgazette.co.uk/news/committee-warns-on-cameras-in-court/68478.fullarticle

I can see that but in this case we know what Max Clifford looks like, there's thousands of pictures of him out there, and there's nothing to stop people being photographed on their way in or out of court. There's existing legislation protecting witnesses. Just seems odd that you can hang around outside someone's house taking pictures as they come and go, but we still have someone with an etch-a-sketch once in court.

 

[UKSBD]

A sketch of that is better than a library photo

That's a matter of opinion

I would say that apart from the sketch giving little indication that it is in court, it also gives little indication that it is Max Clifford.

If it was seen without the article would you have known it was Max Clifford in a court?