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Category: Copyright

  • Facebook is Testing a ‘Rights Manager’ Tool to Fight Photo Theft on Instagram

    https://petapixel.com/2020/09/21/facebook-is-testing-a-rights-manager-tool-to-fight-image-theft-on-instagram/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29
    “Today, we are introducing Rights Manager for Images, a new version of Rights Manager that uses image matching technology to help creators and publishers protect and manage their image content at scale,” reads the announcement. “To access Rights Manager, Page admins can submit an application for content they’ve created and want to protect. Rights Manager will find matching content on Facebook and Instagram.”

  • Google’s New Licensable Images Features Are Officially Out! – PhotoShelter Blog

    Google’s New Licensable Images Features Are Officially Out!
    Have you heard the news? Google Images released their new licensable images features earlier today, which will help photographers looking to improve the discovery of their content and potentially earn more.

  • Photographer Wins Lawsuit Against BuzzFeed, Sets Major DMCA Precedent

    https://petapixel.com/2020/08/18/photographer-wins-lawsuit-against-buzzfeed-sets-major-dmca-precedent/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29
    Last week, photographer Gregory Mango won an important lawsuit against online publication BuzzFeed; it’s important, not because of the payout involved, but because of the precedent set by the court, which ruled that BuzzFeed was liable for 3rd party infringement of his photo because they removed his copyright info from the image.

  • Volvo Says All Public Instagram Photos are Fair Game in New Court Filing

    https://petapixel.com/2020/08/12/volvo-says-all-public-instagram-photos-are-fair-game-in-new-court-filing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29
    A couple of months ago, automotive photographer Jack Schroeder and model Britni Sumida filed a lawsuit against car maker Volvo, accusing them of “willful and wanton” copyright infringement. In a major update to the case, Volvo is trying to get the suit thrown out by claiming that all public Instagram photos are basically free to use and share.

  • This is How Adobe’s Upcoming Photo ‘Authenticity’ System Will Work

    https://petapixel.com/2020/08/04/this-is-how-adobes-upcoming-photo-authenticity-system-will-work/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29
    Almost 9 months after announcing the so-called Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) for preventing image theft and manipulation online, Adobe has finally released details on how this special authentication system will work when they begin rolling it out later this year.

  • Truthmark is a photography database aiming to stop misuse in fake news

    https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/truthmark-photo-database-canon-uncle-grey-copenhagen-photography-280720?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29
    Initiated by Canon with agency Uncle Grey Copenhagen, it allows photographers to upload images together with the stories and contexts behind them, aiming to curtail misappropriation.

  • Instagram Says You Need Permission to Embed Someone’s Public Photos

    https://petapixel.com/2020/06/05/instagram-says-you-need-permission-to-embed-someones-public-photos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29
    Instagram just released a bombshell statement about copyright infringement. In response to recent developments in a lawsuit between a pro photographer and Newsweek, the photo sharing site told Ars Technica that it does NOT grant a sub-license to anyone who uses their “embed” feature to share a public photo.

  • Instagram says it does not provide users of its embedding API a copyright license to display embedded images on other websites

    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/instagram-just-threw-users-of-its-embedding-api-under-the-bus/
    By stating outright that users of its embedding feature don’t get licenses from Instagram to display photos, Instagram is preventing future defendants from using Mashable’s argument. It will be hard for Newsweek to convince a judge that it had a sublicense from Instagram when Instagram has explicitly claimed the opposite.

  • Court Rules Your Instagram Photos Can Be Embedded Against Your Wishes

    https://petapixel.com/2020/04/15/court-rules-your-instagram-photos-can-be-embedded-against-your-wishes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29
    A federal court has tossed a photographer’s claim of copyright infringement against a major online publication that embedded her Instagram photo against her wishes. The court concluded that the photographer signed over the right of embedding by posting the shot to the photo sharing service.

  • Instagram’s Moral Imperative – PhotoShelter Blog

    Instagram’s Moral Imperative
    On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood ruled against photojournalist Stephanie Sinclair, who is well-known for her “Too Young to Wed” photo essay, which turned into a non-profit of the same name. Mashable offered Sinclair $50 to use her image within a 2016 story titled “10 female photojournalists with their lenses on social justice.” When Sinclair declined, they embedded an Instagram image, and Sinclair sued knowing that the case law of Goldman v. Breitbart was on her side.

  • The Supreme Court Just Decided that States Cannot be Sued for Copyright Infringement

    https://petapixel.com/2020/03/23/the-supreme-court-just-decided-that-states-cannot-be-sued-for-copyright-infringement/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29
    The opinion came down as part of a writ of certiorari regarding the case of Allen v Cooper. A writ of certiorari is basically a review of a lower court’s decision, and in this case, the Supreme Court has upheld the decision by the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which decided that states are immune from copyright infringement lawsuits.

  • 500px Updates Terms, Sparks Fresh Outrage Among Photographers

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    500px Updates Terms, Sparks Fresh Outrage Among Photographers

    If you’re a 500px member who hasn’t logged in to the photo sharing and selling service for a while, you may be asked to agree to an updated Terms of Service document upon logging in. The latest agreement is causing an uproar (and a new wave of account deletions) among many photographers, but it doesn’t appear that anything has changed from a legal or rights standpoint.

  • Quick Tip: Register Your Copyright before Posting Photos to Social Media | PDNPulse

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    Quick Tip: Register Your Copyright before Posting Photos to Social Media | PDNPulse

    If you don’t properly register your copyright for an image that you publish to Facebook, Instagram or another social media platform, you may be limiting your ability to collect damages from someone who steals your photograph. Why? As we explain in our story called “Social Media Copyright Registration: Don’t Get Burned,” U.S. copyright law gives photographers three months from the first date of publication of an image to register the copyright. Unless a photographer registers within three months of first publication, or prior to an infringement that takes place after that, they cannot sue copyright infringers for statutory damages of up to $150,000 per image plus attorney’s fees. Instead, the photographer will have to prove actual damages. That requires coming up with evidence that shows how much an infringer earned using an image—an arduous and expensive process.

  • Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz May Have Cost His Client A Ton Of Money, And Set An Expensive Precedent For Copyright Trolls | Techdirt

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    Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz May Have Cost His Client A Ton Of Money, And Set An Expensive Precedent For Copyright Trolls | Techdirt

    Translated: If Mango/Liebowitz’s final judgment is less favorable than the ~$1,000 Democracy Now! offered under Rule 68, then Mango is on the hook for all of Democracy Now’s legal fees incurred after that offer was made. That is likely to be many thousands of dollars. As Booth Sweet notes, many courts have said that Rule 68 doesn’t apply to copyright cases, but in Cote’s latest ruling she says it does, and tells Liebowitz to post a bond for $50,000.

  • Getty Images is Going All Royalty Free, and That Sucks for Photographers

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    Getty Images is Going All Royalty Free, and That Sucks for Photographers

    Getty Images has announced that it will be transitioning all of its creative stock photography offerings to a Royalty Free licensing model and ditching Rights Managed licensing entirely—a move that will be more convenient for customers, but worse for photographers.

  • R.I.P. Rights-Managed – Thoughts of a Bohemian

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    R.I.P. Rights-Managed – Thoughts of a Bohemian

    Just a day after Shutterstock revealed declining profits, a Getty Images email sent to its contributors worldwide made its way to social media and public forum. In it, Getty explains that it will soon transform all remaining rights-managed images into Royalty-Free and cease accepting new ones. “”We have confidently concluded that the RM creative image licensing model no longer meets our customers’ needs,” writes the Seatle giant, “especially given the flexibility demanded by digital marketing and the increasing reuse of imagery, and it actually reduces our overall competitiveness.” In other words, rights-managed is too complicated and no longer adapted to the marketplace.

  • Adobe Wants to Help Authenticate Your Photos. What Should Photographers Think? – PhotoShelter Blog

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    Adobe Wants to Help Authenticate Your Photos. What Should Photographers Think? – PhotoShelter Blog

    Adobe’s motivation for addressing this problem seems sincere, and they undoubtedly have many smart people thinking about the issue. Hopefully they will be able to persuade a critical mass of companies to join the initiative and develop and deploy the technologies needed to make it a success.

  • The Changing Landscape of Copyrights: Hope Shifts from Photographers to Users

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    The Changing Landscape of Copyrights: Hope Shifts from Photographers to Users

    “Following the well-known Shepard Fairey case, courts have diminished the rights of photographers in their works, both by reducing the elements potentially subject to copyright and expanding the application of fair use.”

  • Two Photographers Sue NYC Parks for Publicizing ‘Unearthed’ 1978 Photos

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    Two Photographers Sue NYC Parks for Publicizing ‘Unearthed’ 1978 Photos

    Two former photographers for the New York Times have filed a lawsuit against New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, accusing the department of copyright infringement after NYC Parks “unearthed” a long-lost trove of photos from the 1970s and then wildly publicized them without permission.

  • Jill Greenberg Settles Copyright Claim Against Clorox, McGarryBowen | PDNPulse

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    Jill Greenberg Settles Copyright Claim Against Clorox, McGarryBowen | PDNPulse

    Photographer Jill Greenberg has settled her copyright infringement claim against Clorox and its ad agency for an undisclosed sum of money, attorneys for the photographer announced. The parties reached the settlement in June.