Category: Copyright
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The Maisel vs Baio Incident
I know Andy Baio personally. We’re not BFFs or anything like that, but we’ve shared tasty beverages. I consider him one of the good guys. I’m also a fan of Jay Maisel’s work. He’s a great photographer. So, it’s with more than a bit of sadness that I watch the story about Andy’s costly incident…
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Photographer Jay Maisel Extorts (Opinion) $32,500 Out of Andy Baio
I was disappointed this morning to read about a legal settlement of $32,500 that Andy Baio chose to pay to photographer Jay Maisel. Do you know Jay Maisel? Apparently, he’s the photographer that owns and lives in the 35,000 square foot $30-$50 million mansion in New York City (according to wikipedia). Apparently if you mail…
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Your Images Are Stolen, Now What?
Your Images Are Stolen, Now What? – A Photo Editor My post on google’s new search by image feature (Google Announces New Image Search) had a few photographers wondering what to do after discovering images of theirs had been used thousands of times online. You can refer back to the primer called Photograph via A…
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Why fair use doesn't work unless you've got a huge war-chest for paying lawyers
Why fair use doesn’t work unless you’ve got a huge war-chest for paying lawyers Last year, Waxy released Kind of Bloop, a chiptunes tribute to Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue. He meticulously cleared all the samples on the album, and released it for $5 (backers of his Kicksta… via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/06/23/why-fair-use-doesnt.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag He believed and…
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Righthaven Loss: Judge Rules Reposting Entire Article Is Fair Use
A federal judge ruled Monday that publishing an entire article without the rights holder’s authoriza
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Court Says Removing Photo Credit Violates Copyright Act
Individuals who physically remove credit lines attached to photographs violate a federal law that prevents people from stripping out copyright ownership information from works, the U.S. Court of Appeals in Philadelphia (3rd Cir.) ruled earlier this week. Link: RCFP: Removing photo credit creates DMCA liability
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On Watermarks and Signatures
Earlier today I caught myself unfollowing someone on 500px because I clicked through on their photo
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The 10 Rules Of US Copyright Infringement » The Russian Photos Blog
Based on my experience I can’t think of any good reason why photographers, US or otherwise, should not register their work with the US Copyright Office. Every case is different, and there’s no such thing as 100% protection. But follow these ten rules and you will almost certainly be able to collect substantial damages from…
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Who do those mofos in Beirut think they are gankin’ ma summer fun?! 🙂
Link: F. Scott Schafer Photography | Who do those mofos in Beirut think they are…
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Judge Rules for Photog In Copyright Suit Over RUN DMC Photo
Judge Rules for Photog In Copyright Suit Over RUN DMC Photo | PDNPulse French artist Theirry Guetta is guilty of infringing on photographer Glen E. Friedman’s copyright, a federal judge has ruled. Guetta was accused of using a well-know Friedman image of hip-hop pioneers RUN DMC as the basis for several artworks, including “ via…
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Brian Dupont on copyright and fair use
Brian Dupont just published the final post of a three-part series on copyright and fair use, which is well worth the read. Link: Conscientious | Brian Dupont on copyright and fair use
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What To Do When Your Image Is Stolen Online
What To Do When Your Image Is Stolen Online – A Photo Editor Having your images stolen online is not an “if,” but a “when” will it happen type of situation that you should be prepared to take action on. If you plan to run a photography business then you should plan to hire a…
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New York Stock Exchange claims you can't show pictures of it without permission
Ten Photojournalists Win the $10K 2016 Yunghi Grant Ten photojournalists have been awarded $1,000 each for the Yunghi Kim grant—a grant meant to bring awareness of the importance of copyright registration. via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/12/16476.html
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Twitpic changes reveal conflict as users, journalists, photo sharing services have competing goals
What’s needed is a system in which none of these three parties — users, journalists or the service — wields too much power over the other two, and one in which each knows exactly what rights they and others have. Link: Twitpic changes reveal conflict as users, journalists, photo sharing services have competing goals |…
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Photographers Respond to Lady Gaga's New Copyright Demands | Rolling Stone Music
Photographers Respond to Lady Gaga’s New Copyright Demands Gaga’s strict release form gives her the rights to all photos taken at her concerts via Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/photographers-respond-to-lady-gagas-new-copyright-demands-20110307 Gaga’s strict release form gives her the rights to all photos taken at her concerts
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All Your Pics Are Belong to Us
All Your Pics Are Belong to Us: at image hosting services, Terms and Conditions always apply Smartphone apps make it trivial to snap a photo, upload it to a host, and post a link to Twitter, sometimes in a single step. But by storing a photo on a hosting service to display via Twitter and…
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Photo agency's CEO addresses TwitPic controversy [update]
TwitPic is claiming a “worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license” on all images uploaded to the service, as the firm signs a deal with celebrity photo agency WENN Link: Photo agency’s CEO addresses TwitPic controversy [update] – British Journal of Photography
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TwitPic Plans To Sell Your Images So It Can Profit
TwitPic Plans To Sell Your Images So It Can Profit – A Photo Editor A story in TechCrunch EU highlights a blowup over the ToS (Terms of Service) of Twitpic the photo sharing app for Twitter that many people use to share breaking news images from their phone–images like Daniel Morel’s Haiti images and subsequent…