Category: Copyright
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Facebook Photos Employee Posts Step-by-Step Instructions for Stealing Grad Photos
PetaPixel | Photography and Camera News PetaPixel is a photography news site that covers photo and camera news, reviews, inspiration, and education. via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/05/28/facebook-photos-employee-posts-step-step-instructions-stealing-grad-photos/ Jesse Chen, a software engineer, graduate of UC Berkley and member of the Facebook Photos team who saw nothing wrong with posting detailed photo theft instructions on his blog for…
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Freelance Jun14: How I paid my mortgage by chasing internet sites that stole my work – meeting report
Link: A bizarre number of people John contacts about their use of his images tell him, “we found it on Google, it was free”, and when pushed, then say, “You forgot to put that it was copyrighted, it’s all your fault”.
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Bing Image Widget – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: The courts have decided that displaying the search results (including images) for the education and benefit of the public is fair use. Now it seems that these displays can be made available to any end user for re-publication and re-distribution for non-commercial or commercial purposes.
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UNC reaches settlement with Justin Cook over copyright infringement, will also hold public forum about creative rights | dvafoto
Link: life for the U.S. officials and military personnel who oversaw the Panama Canal Zone was “a kind of paradise,” said the Madrid-based photographer Matías Costa, who has made several visits to the region in recent years for his project “Zonians.”
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Flickr Taking Heat from CC Photographers for Selling Their Work as Wall Art Without Compensation
Flickr Taking Heat from CC Photographers for Selling Their Work as Wall Art Without Compensation Flickr — a site that sometimes seems like the punching bag of the photo community — is again taking heat from photographers, this time over their recent via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2014/11/25/flickr-taking-heat-cc-photographers-selling-work-wall-art-without-compensation/ The photos are being sold for profit, but none of…
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No image is safe : The Baidu edition – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: Enters Baidu, the chinese Google, who recently went public on the US market with a historical IPO. Baidu , like its western counterpart, offers a dedicated Image Search, at http://image.baidu.com/ . But unlike them, it offers a download option right in the thumbnail images. With one click, users can download to their desktop any image…
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Video: Copyright & Your Rights – Straight Talk on the Facts vs the Fiction | PhotoShelter Blog
Video: Copyright & Your Rights – Straight Talk on the Facts vs the Fiction – PhotoShelter Blog This week talked to photographer Jack Reznicki and IP attorney Ed Greenberg, who have been favorites in the industry for their no-bull, get-straight-to-the-facts approach to explaining and making sense of the confusing world of legal jargon and copyright…
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How to Officially Register Your Photographs with the US Copyright Office
How to Copyright Your Photos in 2023 A step-by-step guide on how to officially register the copyright of your photos with the US Copyright Office. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/how-to-copyright-photos/ The Gullah Geechee people are direct descendants of enslaved Africans who were brought to America from West Africa.
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Why copyright should not be infinite, in a nutshell – Boing Boing
Link: Even from the perspective of a profit-seeking artist, copyright is a double-edged sword. Stronger copyright both increases the rewards from having produced a piece of work and increases the cost of creating new works.
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500px Expands into China with 500px.me, and Some Photographers Aren’t Happy
500px Expands into China with 500px.me, and Some Photographers Aren’t Happy Back in July 2015, we reported that 500px had raised an additional $13 million in funding led by China’s equivalent of Getty Images, the Visual China via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/10/15/500px-expands-into-china-with-500px-me-and-some-photographers-arent-happy/ “My images have been copied to your new chinese version of 500px without my permission,”…
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Google’s Digital Library Wins Court of Appeals Ruling – The New York Times
Google’s Digital Library Wins Court of Appeals Ruling (Published 2015) The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirms a lower court decision rejecting claims by the Authors Guild that a book scanning project violates copyright. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/17/business/media/googles-digital-library-wins-court-of-appeals-ruling.html “The purpose of the copying is highly transformative, the public display of text is limited, and the…
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Titanic victory for fair use: appeals court says Google’s book-scanning is legal / Boing Boing
Link: Google fought this case hard, as well they should. The aggregate value of all the copyrighted Web-pages they’ve indexed certainly exceeds the value of all the books ever printed, and no one seriously argues that Google ingesting those documents, indexing them, and serving back snippets from them is a copyright violation
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How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Video Views
How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Video Views In a Nutshell created this 5-minute video that offers a simple explanation of the problem of “freebooting” on Facebook, when copyrighted videos are ripped via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/11/11/how-facebook-is-stealing-billions-of-video-views/ “This number is made out of lies, cheating and worst of all: theft,” writes In a Nutshell. “All of this…
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Most Photographers Say Their Images Are Stolen
Link: Today Leica Camera announced their new entry level Leica M Typ 262 digital rangefinder
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The Richest Photographer in the World
The Richest Photographer in the World – Priceonomics How to make hundreds of millions of dollars by taking pictures of other people’s pictures. via Priceonomics: https://priceonomics.com/the-richest-photographer-in-the-world/ I didn’t really even think to ask [for permission to use the images]. I don’t think that way. It didn’t occur to me to ask him and even if…
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Britons will need copyright licenses to post photos of their own furniture / Boing Boing
Link: The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 is set to kick in, and with it will come an extended term of copyright for designer objects, such as furniture, which will endure for 70 years after the creator’s death — meaning that you’ll need a license to post photographs of your own belongings.
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The Highsmith vs Getty Saga Begins «
Link: Ed has seen all of the legal and factual issues at play in this case in many other cases. What is particularly notable here is that this is the first case he has seen where ALL of these apparent transgressions were committed in a single case. The fact pattern is almost too good to…
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Rock Photographers Sue Motley Crüe for Using Their Photos on Tour Merch
Rock Photographers Sue Motley Crüe for Using Their Photos on Tour Merch Once bad boys of rock and roll Motley Crüe are in hot water with the photo community. Two famed rock photographers are suing the band for using their via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/07/rock-photographers-sue-motley-crue-using-photos-tour-merch/ A black man helps an older African-American woman as she shops in…
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Getty Images Asks Judge to Throw Out $1 Billion Copyright Lawsuit
Getty Images Asks Judge to Throw Out $1 Billion Copyright Lawsuit Getty Images has filed their official response to Carol Highsmith’s highly-publicized $1 Billion copyright claim against the company. And the gist of the via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/12/getty-images-asks-judge-throw-1-billion-copyright-lawsuit/ “Public domain works are routinely commercialized,” writes Getty. “Publishers charge money for their copies of Dickens novels and…
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Belarus Court Rules This Photo ‘Has No Artistic Merit,’ Can’t Be Copyrighted
Belarus Court Rules This Photo ‘Has No Artistic Merit,’ Can’t Be Copyrighted Belarus photographer Anton Motolko received two unpleasant surprises last week. First, he lost a seemingly straightforward copyright suit against a via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2016/09/14/belarus-court-rules-photo-no-artistic-merit-cant-copyrighted/ It’s one of the strangest, saddest copyright rulings we’ve ever heard of. Motolko captured the northern lights photo above during…