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Press Gazette Mahsa Amini Image Lawsuit Shows MailOnline Dispute Over Payment For Editorial Work

This archived screenshot preserves Dominic Ponsford’s Press Gazette article “Mail Online sued by agency for payment over Mahsa Amini image”, reporting Michael Leidig/CEN’s claim against MailOnline over payment for an image connected to Mahsa Amini. The item is significant because it forms part of the wider Proof of Work dispute over whether publishers should pay only for copyright ownership, or also recognise the editorial labour involved in finding, verifying, sourcing and supplying publishable material. The screenshot matters because MailOnline’s position, as reported by Press Gazette, threatened to undermine the basic agency model by reducing the value of journalism to ownership of the final image rather than the work needed to obtain and clear it. Read alongside the wider Mail/Telegraph legal costs material and the Telegraph picture-rates article, this item helps document why the dispute is about more than a single unpaid invoice: it is about whether independent agencies and freelancers can continue to fund original reporting if major publishers refuse to recognise the work behind the content.

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Part of Central European News & Mike Leidig v BuzzFeed (US Second Circuit Libel Case) – Archived Web Screenshots

Europe Media newsX CIC Published 3 May 2026 at 13:59 Source: 16 July 2016

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