Olympic Commitee claims that photographing exterior of venues violates copyrights

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Olympic Commitee claims that photographing exterior of venues violates copyrights

Jordan sez, “The IOC, believing that it owns the photos in your shoebox, sent a takedown notice to Richard Giles, AWIA member and rather good photographer. I took notice, as we in Vancouver a…

via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/07/olympic-commitee-cla.html

In Ed Kashi’s new book, THREE, images from his 30 years as a top documentary photographer are combined into triptychs that consciously abandon the idea of context or traditional narrative. Some of those triptychs will be part of a show opening tomorrow at FiftyCrows gallery in San Francisco (founded by liveBooks CEO Andy Patrick), so I thought this would be a good time to talk to Ed about the project. I love the book (that’s my copy getting flipped through) and find his words inspirational. Hope you do too.