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Reuters withdraws Xi, Putin longevity video after China state TV pulls legal permission to use it

Y2kTheNewOldies

Y2kTheNewOldies


CCTV issued a cease and desist order on Reuters over the meeting between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin footage.
Reuters removed the video from its website and issued a "kill" order to its clients on Friday after receiving a written request from CCTV's lawyer. The letter said the news agency exceeded usage terms of its agreement. The letter further criticized Reuters "editorial treatment applied to this material," but did not specify details.
The video and story of the Xi and Putin exchange were widely shared by broadcasters and on social media globally.

"The editorial treatment applied to this material has resulted in a clear misrepresentation of the facts and statements contained within the licensed feed," wrote HE Danning, legal supervisor of CCTV News Agency, in the letter to Reuters on Friday.
"We stand by the accuracy of what we published," Reuters said in its statement. "We have carefully reviewed the published footage, and we have found no reason to believe Reuters longstanding commitment to accurate, unbiased journalism has been compromised."
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Y2kTheNewOldies said:

CCTV issued a cease and desist order on Reuters over the meeting between Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin footage.
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I think this is a very dangerous sign. If the Chinese news agency can get the media of free nations to stop using videos as part of their news because they don't like the editorial content being used by the free media, then the free media, particularly the news media that is independent from government censure, is in big trouble.
 
What's the difference between this and the president suing CBS for $2 billion because he doesn't like the way an interview by his opponent was edited?

There's no such thing as "free media."
 
China steals American intellectual property every day. Nothing is done about it.

The mistake Reuters made was not getting the video from an impartial source.
 
TheBigA said:
What's the difference between this and the president suing CBS for $2 billion because he doesn't like the way an interview by his opponent was edited?

There's no such thing as "free media."
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"Free media," in this case does not necessarily refer to whether or not the listener/reader/watcher pays for it; rather it refers to whether and how governments can influence it. While I agree with you with regard to the comparison with CBS and Donald Trump in the U.S., not all U.S. media (I'm thinking specifically of Pacifica) has kowtowed to Mr. Trump or his wishes. Also, despite the backsliding of democracy and the rule of law in many countries, including the U.S., nevertheless there continue to remain independent media, both inside and outside of the U.S. that manage to cover the henious actions of many of the world's dictatorships. I consider Reuters' behavior in this case to be a dangerous sign because, up until now, the UK-based media service, as far as I know, has not given in to pressures from dictators and others to not report stories that make those dictators look bad. I very much hope (maybe without evidence) that the media dominos are not going to start falling to the whims of the world's pariah states...
 
ted chittenden said:
I consider Reuters' behavior in this case to be a dangerous sign because, up until now, the UK-based media service, as far as I know, has not given in to pressures from dictators and others to not report stories that make those dictators look bad.
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They didn't change their story in any way. All they did was drop the video.

Journalists can't assume fair use rights from foreign countries
 


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