Category: Copyright

  • It's time to overhaul copyright law | Technology | guardian.co.uk

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    cory doctorow in the guardian: We need to stop shoe-horning cultural use into the little carve-outs in copyright, such as fair dealing and fair use. Instead we need to establish a new copyright regime that reflects the age-old normative consensus about what’s fair and what isn’t at the small-scale, hand-to-hand end of copying, display, performance…

  • Photo Attorney: Batch Processing of Your Photos for Copyright Registration and Adding Metadata

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    : Photo Attorney: Batch Processing of Your Photos for Copyright Registration and Adding Metadata During my interview with Photo Talk Radio last week, I mentioned Bert Krages’ Photoshop Action to batch process your photos (reduce their file size) for copyright registration with the U.S. Copyright Office. He also provides steps to add copyright notice metadata…

  • State of the Art: Marilyn Wars: The Empire Strikes Back

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    State of the Art: Marilyn Wars: The Empire Strikes Back: “The law firm of Loeb & Loeb didn’t waste any time in striking back at the heirs of photographers who once photographed Marilyn Monroe. Loeb & Loeb represents the company called Marilyn Monroe LLC, which over the past couple of decades has claimed ownership of…

  • Dude, That Is So Not Funny

    Dude, That Is So Not Funny

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    Wired: It worked. After making a splash on YTMND, the Lohan Facial, as it was dubbed, popped up on eBaum’s World. While YTMND includes author credits with each clip, eBaum’s World didn’t bother to give Lutz a shout-out. “What really pissed me off was that they placed their own watermark on it,” Lutz says, “as…

  • Battling the Copyright Monster

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    From Wired: First of all, documentaries are incredibly important records of our history and culture. They’re visual histories, and they’re increasingly based on copyrighted culture. Our book describes several instances in which the telling of that history has been thwarted by permissions issues. An example is Jon Else having to pay $10,000 for a four-and-a-half-second…

  • The Pirate Bay: Here to Stay?

    The Pirate Bay: Here to Stay?

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    From Wired: “All of us who run the TPB are against the copyright laws and want them to change,” said “Brokep,” a Pirate Bay operator. “We see it as our duty to spread culture and media. Technology is just a means to doing that.” Here.

  • The Web This Morning

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    Photos – Antonin Kratochvil’s Troubles in the Niger Delta PDN – Photo groups lobby to protect copyright orphans PDN – From darkroom to classroom BBC – Al Qaeda attack on Saudi oil facility Balkans, BBC – 10,000 SRS members hold pro-Mladic rally in Belgrade National Review – William F. Buckley Jr. on Iraq NYT –…

  • The Web This Morning

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    Links now open in current window. Zeiss lenses come to Nikon mount, can be forced onto Canon SLR’s New version of Photo Mechanic out today Donald Trump wants us to think he’s rich, and he’ll sue to prove it Passenger bitten by man says coverage was off Professional photographers upset at stolen photos posted all…