Category: Copyright
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Sussex cops try to suppress publication of damning traffic-cam photos by claiming copyright
Sussex cops try to suppress publication of damning traffic-cam photos by claiming copyright – Boing Boing: The Sussex, England police are trying to suppress publication of images from speed cameras — images that show technical shortcomings in the cameras — by claiming that they are copyrighted.
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Concert Photographers Asked To Transfer Copyright To Jane’s Addiction
A Photo Editor – Concert Photographers Asked To Transfer Copyright To Jane’s Addiction: Filed under WTF? I’m told some photographers are asked to sign this document and some are not.
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Google Images Mislabels Many Copyrighted Pictures
PDNPulse: Google Images Mislabels Many Copyrighted Pictures: How could this happen? Apparently, Google assumes images are copyrighted unless they are identified with a Creative Commons or GNU Free Documentation license, or are labeled as being in the public domain. The system relies on Internet users to properly identify the status of the images they publish.…
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Mannie Garcia Seeks Intervention in AP v. Shepard Fairey
A Photo Editor – Mannie Garcia Seeks Intervention in AP v. Shepard Fairey
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The Click and Copyright
Hey, this is Trent. Let’s talk. I just got this short, anonymous e-mail: Bet if someone took some of your images you’d cry foul. It’s a very valid topic, and I thank whoever sent it. No one likes to get ripped off. When I find my photos being used without my permission, I have to…
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Creative Commons comes to Google Image Search
Creative Commons comes to Google Image Search – Boing Boing: Google officially launched the ability to filter search results using Creative Commons licenses inside their Image Search tool
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Amazon Kindle contract sucks
Amazon Kindle contract sucks – Boing Boing: Publishing contracts are generally kind of bogus to begin with, but this is a real pinnacle of bogosity.
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European Publishers Call on E.U. to Protect Copyright
European Publishers Call on E.U. to Protect Copyright – NYTimes.com: The publishers said widespread use of their work by online news aggregators and other Web sites was undermining their efforts to develop an online business models at a time when readers and advertisers are defecting from newspapers and magazines.
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A COPYRIGHT MANIFESTO: REALITY VS. BULLSHIT
DOUG MENUEZ 2.0: GO FAST, DON’T CRASH: So let’s settle the question of whether using a photograph or text or music outside of “fair use” without permission is stealing. It is. Period. Look it up. It’s illegal. Whether you think it’s morally ok to steal is your problem and karma. If you want to roll through stop…
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Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker: Anderson is very good at paragraphs like this—with its reassuring arc from “bloodbath” to “salvation.” His advice is pithy, his tone uncompromising, and his subject matter perfectly timed for a moment when old-line content providers are desperate for answers. That said, it is not…
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News and Information on the Google Book Settlement
Photo Attorney: Many photographers are also authors. If you published a book before January 5, 2009, your work may be subject to a class action lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, claiming that Google has violated their copyrights by scanning their books, creating an electronic database, and displaying short excerpts without the permission of the…
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How Good (or Not Evil) Is Google?
The Media Equation – NYTimes.com: Among other adventures, Google’s motives were called into question after it scanned in millions of books without permission, prompting the Authors Guild and publishers to file a class-action suit. The proposed $125 million settlement will lead to a book registry financed by Google and a huge online archive of mostly…
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Do Professional Photographers Need Copyrights?
Scott Bourne « Photofocus: I am not interested in exposure – I am interested in getting paid for my work – just like everyone else is.
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'Digital Barbarism – A Writer’s Manifesto,' by Mark Helprin
ROSS DOUTHAT – NYTimes.com: Mark Helprin could have ignored the barrage; he could have sifted it for arguments worth replying to. Instead, he decided to write a furious treatise against the comment-happy horde. The resulting book, “Digital Barbarism: A Writer’s Manifesto,” is a vindication of the aphorism about the perils of wrestling with a pig.…
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I read the news today, Oh boy…
Thoughts of a Bohemian: A woman copied 24 songs, she gets fined $1.92 million dollars. That is $220,000 a song. Corbis looses 16,000 images, they get fined $7 dollars per image. Justice anyone ?
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Photo Attorney: Help! I've Been Infringed!
Photo Attorney says: You’re sitting in your easy chair and surfing the web. You’re not paying much attention, until you see it. It’s your photo, but you did not post it there. You can’t believe they used your photo without your permission. Now what do you do? The steps you take may limit your ultimate…
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National Trust lose high profile photographer in competition rights row.
Editorial Photographers UK says: Renowned photographer Simon Norfolk has pulled out of a major National Trust photographic project in protest over rights-grabbing terms in an associated competition run by the conservation body.
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DMCA Protection for Photographers
Photofocus says: Do you know of a website or blog that has published your photographs without your permission? If so, you should become familiar with the The Digital Millennium Copyright Act – DMCA