Category: Copyright
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SFGate: Daily Dish : Corgan Fights for Radio Royalties
CLICK NOTE: As with all links to the Daily Dish, it’s really the comments… Smashing Pumpkins star Billy Corgan has testified before Congress in support of a new bill that would require radio stations to pay musicians every time their songs are played. Check it out here.
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Kutiman, Big Media, and the Future of Creative Entrepreneurship | 43 Folders
the disruptively talented Kutiman, who has made an astounding series of YouTube video remixes that’s lighting up the web and (one imagines) generating a lot of wood amongst our nation’s libidinous entertainment litigators. Check it out here.
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dvafoto – Survey shows photographers face increasing pressure over copyright
The British Photographic Council recently surveyed more than 1,000 photographers, press agencies, and picture libraries and found some disturbing trends Check it out here.
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Editorial Photographers UK | Survey shows photographers face increasing pressure over copyright
Professional photographers are coming under increasing pressure to hand over their rights, with those working in the editorial markets hardest hit, according to a new industry-wide report into the photography sector. Check it out here.
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Introspection of a Plural Wife (at Heart): Did the Release of 1000 Pages of FLDS Church Documents Violate the Church's, and Warren Jeffs', Right to Privacy?
Some of you have argued with me that the public has a right to Warren Jeffs’ private writings, and that argument is bolstered by the fact that he has been convicted and is in jail. I’m okay with the fact that you don’t agree with me, and I appreciate your thoughtful responses. However, this thing…
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Last.fm – "Techcrunch are full of sh*t"
On Friday night a technology blog called Techcrunch posted a vicious and completely false rumour about us: that Last.fm handed data to the RIAA so they could track who’s been listening to the “leaked” U2 album. Check it out here.
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Did Last.fm Just Hand Over User Listening Data To the RIAA?
UPDATE: Apparently not. See the first comment from Alex at Last.FM word is going around that the RIAA asked social music service Last.fm for data about its user’s listening habits to find people with unreleased tracks on their computers. And Last.fm, which is owned by CBS, actually handed the data over to the RIAA Check…
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Facebook Backtracks Under Community Pressure, Goes Back To Old ToS (For Now)
Isn’t it ironic that Facebook, which is so often used by groups of people to protest and demand changes for just about anything, has reverted to its former Terms Of Services under pressure of the community? Check it out here.
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THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE: SHEPARD FAIREY AND THE ART OF APPROPRIATION
As underground art phenomenon SHEPARD FAIREY’s first major museum retrospective prepares to open at the INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART/BOSTON on February 6th, we feel the need to address some of the vicious and unfounded rumors surrounding the originality of Shepard’s artwork that have been floated online in recent years. Though written by a variety of…
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Fairey, Obama, and Fair Use
Now that the source material for the iconic Barack Obama campaign image, produced by Shepard Fairey, has been identified, the fair use fun can begin. The photographer says that he doesn’t want to make trouble. But some in the art world have been gunning for Fairey, arguing that he’s not just a bad artist, but…
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Photo Attorney: Book Publishers Adopt PLUS Image Licensing Standards
Three major publishers have called for the adoption of the PLUS (Picture Licensing Universal System) standards by picture archives, photographers and all other image suppliers. Check it out here.
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Wandering Light: Stolen
Whenever a photography injustice surfaces in the news, I can’t seem to figure out what the perpetrator was thinking. Digital manipulation, falsifying information and copyright infringement. Which comes to my current situation. On April 27, 2008, I spoke of a random encounter that got me very excited. A new friend who just happened to be…
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Photo Attorney: "Free Use" of People, Places and Things in Photographs
Peter Jaszi, Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Clinic at American University Washington College of Law has prepared a great list that explains when you don’t need to be concerned about releases or fair use. Check it out here.
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City, Officer Battle Over 9/11 Photos
For more than three months, police Detective John Botte roamed the ruins of the World Trade Center, snapping photographs with his Leica Rangefinder camera and capturing hundreds of images of people at work on the monumental cleanup. His pictures soon appeared in a trio of books, most notably the best-selling autobiography of the city’s police…
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Adobe's Photoshop Express gives away your work | Copyright Action
What we have here is yet another example of an aggregator reinventing copyright custom and practice to suit their business agenda at a cost to photographers. Compare and contrast Adobe’s cavalier attitude toward photographers’intellectual property with their own formidable license, that you have to accept when installing the PSX software Check it out here.
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Pirates and Money and Bears, oh Microsoft! – PDNPulse
Photographer Louis Lesko took to the stage in the late morning to introduce the interesting idea that photographers should let their images be pirated. Check it out here.