Category: Copyright
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How Every Flickr Photo Ended Up on Sale This Weekend
This is the way that the internet works. Put your photos online and if you are any good, someone, somewhere, somehow will technically violate your copyright. It *will* happen. And you have two choices with what you can do about it. You can get worked up and get upset and let it eat at you,…
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Photo Attorney: Lessons from Liz . . .
Liz Ordonez-Dawes, the multi-million dollar verdict winner, “hope[s] photographers are empowered by [her] news and take action.” Liz was kind enough to share some important lessons she learned from her lawsuit: Check it out here.
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Here’s Our New Policy On A.P. stories: They’re Banned
The A.P. doesn’t get to make it’s own rules around how its content is used, if those rules are stricter than the law allows. So even thought they say they are making these new guidelines in the spirit of cooperation, it’s clear that, like the RIAA and MPAA, they are trying to claw their way…
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Little Orphan Artworks – New York Times
CONGRESS is considering a major reform of copyright law intended to solve the problem of “orphan works” — those works whose owner cannot be found. This “reform” would be an amazingly onerous and inefficient change, which would unfairly and unnecessarily burden copyright holders with little return to the public. Check it out here.
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Photo Business News & Forum: The 2008 AP Contract Analysis
Most assuredly, the AP has a new contract. We first reported about it here (A New AP Contract Emerging? – 5/14/08), and more than one copy came our way from several readers. Of note in their paperwork, was the disparity between pay from bureau to bureau. You have until June 1, or about 2 weeks,…
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Secure copyrights & metadata permanence
The subject of copyright is always high in photographers’ minds, especially in light of Orphan Works legislation & rampant image “borrowing” online. Consequently there’s an ongoing burning desire for secure metadata that can’t be stripped away from images. Check it out here.
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Photo Attorney: The Fuss About Fair Use
These days, authors, artists, and photographers are likely to find one or more of their creative works used without permission. One defense to the purported infringement is often that it is a “fair use.” The challenge then is determining whether the unauthorized use is an infringement or fair use. While only a court of law…
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Photo Advocates Divided Over Orphan Works
As the orphan works copyright legislation advances through Congress, it has exposed a split among photo associations. With their ranks divided, professional photographers have lost whatever lobbying power they might have had as a unified force. Check it out here.
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Photo Attorney: Q&A – Is Your Photography a "Work for Hire?"
Q. I currently am a “freelance” photographer (without pay) with a newspaper. I have not signed anything with the newspaper. Am I subject to work-for-hire provisions? Check it out here.
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Coca Cola Shamelessly Rips Off Evan Hecox In New Billboard
Two weekends ago I was out running errands and I stopped at the light at Franklin and Cahuenga which is pretty much the most northern end of Hollywood. I stop in the left hand turn lane, and dead ahead of me I see a billboard that shocks the crap out of me. It’s a Coca-Cola…
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Selling Photos as Digital Downloads for Non-Commercial Use – A Pictures Worth
One of the cool features we released a few weeks ago with the Personal Archive is the ability to sell an image as an electronic personal use license via digital download. Why is this so cool? Check it out here.
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Is Amit Agarwal a Photo Thief?
Thomas Hawk: A few of my photos seem to be in Amit’s photostream as well. My response? Personally I could care less. My photos are routinely used without my permission all over the internet. I just don’t care. Check it out here.
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Turning the Tables on the Associated Press
The AP threatened to sue Brian C. Ledbetter for reproducing their photos without authorization. But they didn’t ask permission before they grabbed Ashley Dupre’s pictures. Check it out here.
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The Ashley Dupre Pics and Fair Use – Media Orchard
one thing’s clear: Fair use is a more muddled mess than ever. Check it out here.
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Copyright Action | for photographers & photograph users
EPUK, the mailing list and website for professional editorial photographers, has launched Copyright Action, a website community and educational resource that wants to become the intellectual property equivalent of Crimestoppers. Check it out here.
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Photo Attorney: 10 Important Legal Issues for Photographers
When photography is your business, you need to know more than about shutter speed or aperture. Consider this quick checklist of 10 important legal issues before you next click your shutter. Check it out here.
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Press Taps MySpace For Photos Of Spitzer Call Girl
When a prostitute hired by former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer was identified Wednesday, news outlets eagerly published photos grabbed from her MySpace profile. Can they get away with that? Check it out here.
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National Geographic Renews Legal War Over Digital Archive – emedia and Technology @ FolioMag.com
“It’s the archive that’s at stake,” Angelo Grima, senior vice president and deputy general counsel for the National Geographic Society, said during a panel on digital rights at the Magazine Publishers of America’s Magazines 24/7 conference at the Hearst Tower Thursday. “We’ll go to the Supreme Court if we have to, because our archive is…
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Photo Attorney: Q&A – Copyright Registration Issues
The courts have not spoken directly on whether images on a website are considered “published” for copyright registration. It may depend on whether your photos are posted behind password protected pages and/or are for sale, but considering them as published is the safest way to register your photos. Check it out here.
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Jim M. Goldstein – EXIF and Beyond: Lawrence Lessig Interview
: This episode features an interview with Stanford Law Professor Lawrence Lessig, co-director of the law school’s Center for Internet and Society, author of “Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity” and founder of Creative Commons. In this conversation Professor Lessig, with a focus on…