Even though the Federal Aviation Administration restricts the use of unmanned aircraft for commerical purposes, enforcement is "scattershot," "emboldening even more drone operators," the Wall Street Journal reports. While regulation lags, Matt Waite, the journalism professor who runs a drone-journalism program, told the WSJ that the "'longer it takes to have the rules of the road in place, the more the technology advances and the cheaper it gets, the closer we get to some knucklehead doing something dumb and hurting someone.'"
Another little media law nugget: TV station KATV in Little Rock, Ark., was informed that using a drone to film the aftermath of recent tornadoes was an FAA violation but the station wasn't told to stop using drones, WSJ reports. "The FAA said it regulates the use of drones, not how news organizations use footage," WSJ further reports.
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