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When TTG-ready publishers have doubts

about the appropriateness of the TTG label on a submitted photograph:

  • 1. The TTG-RP can choose to not publish the photograph at all

    No photo publisher — “TTG-ready” or otherwise — is ever obligated to do anything with TTG or to publish TTG-labeled photographs.

  • 2. The TTG-RP can make any of TTG’s Allowable Changes

    . . . that are deemed necessary to making the photo TTG-eligible.

    TTG’s Allowable Changes

    “An example would be if a trusted news provider received a TTG-labeled spot-news photo in which the saturation levels were cartoonishly high. If the photo is deemed to otherwise be suitable for publication, the news provider would be permitted to moderate the saturation levels in order to not damage the provider’s credibility.”

    (See here)

  • 3. The TTG-RP can tell the photographer they will not publish the TTG label with the photograph as it was submitted

    That means the photographer then has three choices:

    A. the photographer can undo any problematic areas in the photograph until the TTG-RP no longer thinks the TTG label is inappropriate; or

    B. the photographer can remove the TTG label and have the photograph published without the label (should that solution be acceptable to the TTG-RP); or

    C. the photographer can withdraw the submission so that the photograph is not published by that TTG-RP.

  • 4. If the TTG-RP believes that the photo meets P1–P7 of the Trust Test but cannot meet P8 because it does not depict what it appears to depict...

    (The Trust Test)

    . . . the TTG-RP can tell the photographer that they will not publish the photo unless the TTG-IC version of the label is used (or unless the “IC” explanation is expanded, if that alert is already there).

    The photographer then has similar choices to #3 above.

  • 5. The TTG-RP can publish the photo with the TTG label and the photographer’s name or UOI...

    (UOI?)

    . . . reminding viewers that the photographer — not the TTG-RP — is fully and solely responsible for the appropriateness of the TTG label.