Category: Copyright
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PDNPulse: Warning: Facebook and MySpace Strip Photo Copyright Data
A report published this week by the American Society of Media Photographers examines the terms of service (TOS) for Facebook, Photobucket, Flickr, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter. Link: PDNPulse: Warning: Facebook and MySpace Strip Photo Copyright Data
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PDNPulse: Toyota Apologizes For Using Flickr Photos In SUV Ad
Toyota U.S.A. has removed a photo feature from one of its Web sites and apologized to Flickr photographers whose images appeared on the site without their permission. Link: PDNPulse: Toyota Apologizes For Using Flickr Photos In SUV Ad
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PDN: Photographers Denied Participation in Google Settlement
Link: Photographers Denied Participation in Google Settlement
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Secret copyright treaty leaks. It's bad. Very bad. – Boing Boing
Secret copyright treaty leaks. It’s bad. Very bad. The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concern… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose…
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Shepard Fairey Admits Lying in Lawsuit
Link: Shepard Fairey Admits Lying in Lawsuit: Fairey’s lawyers intend to quit representing him, the AP’s lawyer says.
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Blow-Up Over Artist’s Giant Copy Of Obama Stipple Drawing
Blow-Up Over Artist’s Blow-Up of Obama Stipple Drawing Pablo Picasso once said, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” But Wall Street Journal illustrator Noli Novak says Spanish artist Jose Maria Cano engaged in outright plagiarism in producing a large painting that meticulously duplicates Novak‘s stipple via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/novak/ Wall Street Journal illustrator Noli Novak says…
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PDNPulse: Magazine: Contacting Photographers is Too Complicated
Link: PDNPulse: Magazine: Contacting Photographers is Too Complicated: London-based pro photographer Ben Roberts recently had one of his images published in GUP, a photo magazine based in The Netherlands.
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An Update on the International Olympic Committee’s Threatening Letter to Flickr User Richard Giles
Link: An Update on the International Olympic Committee’s Threatening Letter to Flickr User Richard Giles | Thomas Hawk Digital Connection: As of tonight, the issue is still not entirely resolved. Although the IOC seems much more diplomatic at this point than they did in the harsh C&D letter that they originally sent Giles, they still…
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Olympic Commitee claims that photographing exterior of venues violates copyrights
Olympic Commitee claims that photographing exterior of venues violates copyrights Jordan sez, “The IOC, believing that it owns the photos in your shoebox, sent a takedown notice to Richard Giles, AWIA member and rather good photographer. I took notice, as we in Vancouver a… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/07/olympic-commitee-cla.html In Ed Kashi’s new book, THREE, images…
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PDNPulse: A Closer Look at the Annie Leibovitz Lavazza Case
PDNPulse: A Closer Look at the Annie Leibovitz Lavazza Case: How similar are Pizzetti’s location shots to Leibovitz’s final images? We have some animated GIFs below comparing the photographs.
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PDNPulse: Mystery: Who Asked Flickr to Delete the Obama Joker?
PDNPulse: Mystery: Who Asked Flickr to Delete the Obama Joker?: If we rule out Time and DC Comics (both owned by Time Warner), and Platon, who else could have a reasonable copyright claim over Alkhateeb’s image? If someone with no credible case for copyright ownership submitted a takedown request, shouldn’t Flickr have rejected the claim?
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El Che – Obey Giant
CLICK NOTE: It’s almost too much. A Rene Burri rip-off being promoted on Shepard’s site for only $100 per print. I love you Shepard, but this print is basically like someone took the original negative and printed it on high-contrast paper. The money should go to the photographer, Magnum’s Rene Burri. El Che – Obey…
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Flickr v. Free Speech. Where Is Their Courage?
Flickr v. Free Speech. Where Is Their Courage?: One thing I’ve learned over the years is this – screwing over your users while yelling “the lawyers made me do it!” rarely ends well. Particularly when the lawyers are just being lazy, and free speech rights are at stake. Flickr really stepped in it this time.…
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College Football Media Policy Draws Protest Letter
College Football Media Policy Draws Protest Letter – PDN: The SEC also says it “shall have the right to purchase prints of any published photographs… at the most favorable financial terms offered to third parties… and Bearer hereby grants the SEC and its member institutions a license at no additional charge to use the photographs…
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PDNPulse: Twitter Photographer Asks Sky News to Pay Up
PDNPulse: Twitter Photographer Asks Sky News to Pay Up: Neale told OJB that his experience shows the dangers of social media for citizen journalists. We think it also illuminates a new dynamic that’s evolving in news coverage. Social media users can quickly share other people’s photos and videos without assuming any risk. Not so with…
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AP Pulls Burk Uzzle Woodstock Photo From Archive
PDNPulse: AP Pulls Burk Uzzle Woodstock Photo From Archive
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Petition the Guardian’s rights grab
Petition the Guardian’s rights grab | dvafoto: On July 28, 2009, the Guardian announced new contractual terms soon to be forced upon contributing freelance photographers.
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EFF criticizes Burning Man for limiting attendees' fair use rights
EFF criticizes Burning Man for limiting attendees’ fair use rights – Boing Boing
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The AP Will Sell You a "License" to Words It Doesn't Own
The Laboratorium: The AP Will Sell You a “License” to Words It Doesn’t Own: I paid $12 for this “license.” Those words don’t even come from the article they charged me 46 cents a word to quote from (and that’s with the educational discount). No, they’re from Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Isaac McPherson, in which…
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Associated Press claims to have discovered magic anti-news-copying beans – Boing Boing
Associated Press claims to have discovered magic anti-news-copying beans – Boing Boing: A lot of copyfighters were mystified by the Associated Press’s recent announcement (complete with a bonkers diagram straight off a bottle of Dr. Bronner’s) that they had spent millions of dollars on a DRM system for news that would limit how you could…