Category: Copyright
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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…
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UK Daily Mail Faces Million Dollar US Copyright Suit From Mavrix Photo » The Russian Photos Blog
Link: Can photographers win substantial compensation in a US court from a British copyright pirate? We may be about to find out, courtesy of the Daily Mail.
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Judge rejects AFP’s claim to Morel’s Haiti Twitpic photos | dvafoto
Link: A judge has ruled that Twitter and Twitpic’s licensing terms do not extend to third parties, that Morel has a valid copyright infringement claim, and that any information identifying the copyright holder (so-called “copyright management information”) must be distributed alongside copyrighted material.
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Daniel Morel, CBS settle case – British Journal of Photography
Link: Freelance photographer Daniel Morel and CBS have settled their legal fight, a couple of week after a judge issued an order that put the Haiti-based photographer in a stronger position
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Google Books Settlement Rejected
Link: Saying the deal goes “too far,” a federal judge Tuesday rejected Google’s proposed legal settlement with book publishers, an accord that would have paved a path toward digitizing the world’s books.
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Dear art world: Why is stealing a wallet not appropriation art?
It’s a few weeks after the latest Richard Prince brouhaha, and as expected things haven’t changed. T
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Stirring Up Trouble Over Beyoncé’s New Video
Pop singer Beyoncé has debuted a new music video for her song “Run the World (Girls),” and because i
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The Photographer, The Entrepreneur, The Stockbroker And Their Rent-A-Mob
Link: there are now two photographic worlds, one on Earth and one in cyberspace, each largely unaware of the other’s existence. The last two weeks have provided a spectacular demonstration of what happens when those two worlds collide
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SLANDER, STUPIDITY & THE MINDLESS MOB ATTACKS ON JAY MAISEL
Link: There’s always that terrifying moment when a large, seemingly peaceful gathering turns brutally ugly. In an instant, blood is drawn and you could easily be crushed by the swirling, pulsing chaos of what is now a mindless, violent mob. Sadly, we all know that inexplicable self-destructive stupidity is not limited to the streets, but…
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David Strick, Celebrity Photographer, Suing L.A. Times For Publishing His Photos After he Left The Paper
Link: What happens when you work as a contract freelancer for a publication and it continues to put out your work after you leave? It’s all about the fine print, innit?
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BBC News editor: We may use social media photos without permission ‘in exceptional situations’
Link: BBC News had wrongly contended that photos posted to Twitter were “in the public domain” because they are “available to most people who have a computer.”
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Gordon vs. McGinley case dismissed
Link: Anne Hathaway rapped, “I’m a paparazzi/I don’t play no Yahtzee/I go pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop/My camera’s up your crotch…”
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Watch out for rights grabs – National Geographic My Montana contest and TurnHere
Link: National Geographic’s My Montana contest features a pretty standard rights grab. It’s particularly sad to see National Geographic taking advantage of photographers in this way, especially since the organization has been so supportive of photography and photographers since the beginning of the craft
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Telegraph’s picture editor caught in copyright infringement blunder
Link: A deputy picture editor for The Daily Telegraph’s website has been caught arguing that editorial staff is not required to gain clearance for the use of images online due to the nature of the industry, BJP can report.
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Don’t Like Me
Don’t Like Me Lots of chatter online about how photographers should embrace sharing their work and stop complaining about copyright. All started by this post (here) by the king of HDR (Trey Ratcliff) who says: A… via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2012/02/14/dont-like-me/ I can’t blame them for their rapture, because they and many others have discovered…
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Another photographer fights and wins against Shepard Fairey
Link: photographer Dina Douglas has come forward with some details regarding her dispute, and eventual settlement, with Shepard Fairey over Fairey’s usage of her image of a cancer survivor
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NY Post scolded by photographer
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2012/03/16/ny-post-scolded-by-photographer/ The New York Post declared this week that “Pinterest is the new Facebook,” and used the photo on the right to illustrate its story. The credit line said, “Courtesy Tory Burch via Pinterest.” Actually, the photo was taken by Leela Cyd, and here’s an excerpt of the letter she’s…
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Pinterest’s Broken Business Model
Link: As concerns grew it became clear that for many people Pinterest’s real crime wasn’t just that they had created a system designed to encourage easy copyright infringement, but that they attempt to shift the blame for the ensuing infringements onto their users:
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Agence France Presse vs Morel: “AFP Got Caught With A Hand In The Cookie Jar And Will Have To Pay”
Link: It’s unlikely anyone will ever step forward to claim the credit for that particular piece of ingenious public relations, for it’s clear that AFP and Getty are already bracing themselves for a crushing defeat. Buried deep in their memorandum is a plea to the court that should it find in Morel’s favour, damages should…
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AP pulls falling bear photo after copyright dispute between student photographer, newspaper
Link: On Saturday the Associated Press issued a “photo elimination” of Andy Duann’s falling bear pictures, advising its members to “eliminate from your systems and archives” AP’s “Campus bear” photos shot by Andy Duann and credited to the CU Independent, the student publication of the University of Colorado Boulder, where Duann is a student