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Haitian photographer Daniel Morel won a $1.22 million dollar award from Agence France-Presse (AFP) for its copyright infringement of Morel's photos of the 2010 earthquake.

Trial jurors decided AFP was deliberate in its infringement, and awarded Morel an additional $20,000 for AFP's breach of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

The photos were taken from Morel's TwitPic account, and distributed through Getty Images publishing channels. AFP tried to purchase the photographs but Morel said no and sued.

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Here is a picture of Agence France-Presse (AFP). On November, 2013, the French Newspaper was found guilty and obligated to pay $1.22 million in damages for using a total of seven pictures from Haiti photographer Morel without his permission.

AFP and Getty Images had infringed Morel's copyright

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