Category: Copyright
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Instagram’s Moral Imperative – PhotoShelter Blog
Instagram’s Moral Imperative – PhotoShelter Blog The past few years have made it abundantly clear that platforms hold disproportionate power in the online sphere – from Uber to Grubhub to Amazon. Online success is predicated on building both utility as well as a critical mass of users, and for that, pla via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/04/instagrams-moral-imperative/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29…
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The Supreme Court Just Decided that States Cannot be Sued for Copyright Infringement
The Supreme Court Just Decided that States Cannot be Sued for Copyright Infringement Earlier today, the Supreme Court of the United States dealt a major blow to photographer’s copyright protections when it declared that states cannot be via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/03/23/the-supreme-court-just-decided-that-states-cannot-be-sued-for-copyright-infringement/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 The opinion came down as part of a writ of certiorari regarding the case of…
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PDNPulse: ASMP New York's New Rallying Cry
Link: What’s even worse, it appears that the IOC is trying to argue with Giles that even using the *word* Olympics in his photostream is somehow some sort of violation.
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PDNPulse: AP Thinks Shepard Fairey Was Lying The Whole Time
Link: I haven’t done scientific testing. But basically I’d wager that you can expect a 2 stop improvement in terms of low light performance/image quality with the 1D MKIV relative to the 5D MKII.
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PDNPulse: Photographer Busts Al Gore's TV Company for Photo Rip-Off
Link: San Francisco photographer Ken Light won a small claims judgment of $588
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Editorial Photographers UK | Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill: A Future Fair For Photographers?
Link: As Business Secretary Lord Mandelson’s Digital Economy Bill moves to the report stage, and the COPYRIGHT ACTION web site gets 60,000 page views from anxious photographers, EPUK reveals how the bill’s clause on orphan works spells an uncertain future for photographers and publishers alike.
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PDNPulse: Whitney Biennial Artist Copies Harry Benson’s Michael Jackson Pic
Link: Benson contacted O’Grady, who lives in New York, to question her unauthorized use of his image. According to Benson, she told him she is “a conceptual artist.” “What it is,” says Benson, “is conceptual plagiarism.”
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PDNPulse: Al Gore TV Challenges An Inconvenient Photographer
Link: Ken Light, the San Francisco photographer who won a judgment in February against Al Gore’s cable TV network for unauthorized use of an image, now has to fight to defend his rights again.
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Do You Register Your Images with the Copyright Office? at Strictly Business
Link: Only a small percentage of photographers register their work with the copyright office. ASMP wants that to change.
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A Court Victory Al Gore May Not Want to Advertise – NYTimes.com
A Court Victory Al Gore May Not Want to Advertise (Published 2010) This case pitted Mr. Gore and Current TV against Ken Light, a photojournalist and an outspoken advocate for fair compensation for journalists. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/us/23sfmetro.html The art, a photograph, belonged to a Berkeley professor, and Mr. Gore and Current TV had used it without…
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Agence France Presse's slap to photographers – 1854
Link: On Monday, Agence France Presse filed a complaint in the United States District Court Southern District of New York against Haiti-based photographer Daniel Morel. Agence France Presse claims Morel engaged in an “antagonistic assertion of rights” after the photographer objected to the use by AFP of images he posted online of the Haitian earthquake…
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Thomas Hawk » Is Imagelogr.com Trying to Be the Largest Copyright Infringer of All Time?
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2010/05/is-imagelogr-com-trying-to-be-the-largest-copyright-infringer-of-all-time.html Imagelogr claims to be scraping the entire “free web” and seems to have hit Flickr especially hard, copying full-sized images of yours and mine to their own servers where they are hosting them without any attribution or links back to the original image in violation of all available…
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Insult to Injury: AFP Suing Photographer It Stole Images From
Link: It’s hard to explain a mind-blowing mess like this one, but AFP is suing a Haitian photojournalist for “antagonistic assertion of [his] rights” after it distributed his news-breaking earthquake photos all over the world without his permission.
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In Legal Trouble, Photographer Appeals for Help – PDN Pulse
Link: Seattle photographer Mike Hipple reports that he has run out of money to defend himself against a copyright infringement claim by a sculptor, and he’s now trying to raise money by selling a self-published book.
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Rob Galbraith DPI: ImageRights adds free visual search, plans compensation recovery program
Link: ImageRights, a visual search firm that assists photographers in identifying unauthorized photo usage online, has added a free service level in addition to the paid tiers they currently offer. At no charge, a photographer can upload up to 10,000 photos to ImageRights. The company will then continuously monitor news sites, popular blogs and other…
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Photography Copyright Protection: Online Resources – A Picture's Worth
Link: There are some amazing resources for photographers to learn more about protecting their copyright. We’ve taken a stab at gathering up *some* of the best resources we’ve found – mostly from industry organizations, government and nonprofits, and a few voices of wisdom in the industry.
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NPPA Endorses Artists Bill Of Rights For Photography Contests
Link: Nikon has announced the Speedlight SB-700, a new shoe-mount flash unit that incorporates a revised control layout, 24-120mm zoom range, recycle time of 2.5 seconds at full power, the ability to act as a master flash for up to two groups of wireless remote Speedlight
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Storm In A Duck Pond As Leroy Tries To Claim Morel High Ground In AFP Haiti Hijack » The Russian Photos Blog
Link: But Morel didn’t post any pictures on Twitter. Nobody ever has, because – as most 10-year-olds could explain to the NPPA – Twitter is a text message system: it can’t host pictures. Morel’s pictures were posted to Twitpic, an entirely separate legal entity from Twitter, with entirely different terms and conditions; therefore it is…