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Matt Waite, a professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Journalism, who has been researching the use of drones by journalists, put together a post this week summarizing new rules that will go into effect.
Says Waite:
So the day we’ve been waiting for is here. The news is reasonably good. There are still challenges, and we haven’t even talked about state and local laws that have been piling up while the FAA lumbered toward today. But the future of drones in journalism is much brighter today than it has ever been.
You can read his full post here.
Waite started the Drone Journalism Lab in November 2011 “as part of a broad digital journalism and innovation strategy.”
To summarize:
In 60 days, drone journalism will be legally possible in any newsroom in the United States. That’s not to say it will be easy, but it will be legally possible in ways that it has never been before.
On Tuesday, the FAA released Part 107 of the Federal Aviation Regulations, which encompasses the new rules covering Unmanned Aerial Systems or drones or flying robots or whatever you want to call them. You can read all 600+ pages of it here or you can opt for the summary here.