Category: Copyright
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All your images are belong to us
Link: In a nutshell, it works like this. Social media platform ( think Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter) install an API on their site that allows to automatically recognize if an image posted belongs to a photo agency (Getty Images only for now). Upon recognition, the usage is either approved or denied. If approve, a license fee…
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A notice doesn’t help: Facebook still gets rights to your pictures
Link: “You only have 3 ways out of this agreement with facebook: 1. Don’t have a facebook account, 2. Negotiate a special agreement with facebook (good luck!), or 3., Delete your facebook account”
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Snapshots of the Instagram Debate, Through the Lens of Professionals
Snapshots of the Instagram Debate, Through the Lens of Professionals Many bold-name photographers are reflecting on their use of Instagram after the company announced a controversial change in its usage policy. via The 6th Floor Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/snapshots-of-the-instagram-debate-through-the-lens-of-professionals/ “there is ‘less of a barrier’ when it comes to taking pictures with an iPhone, as opposed to…
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Instagram changes terms of service, but will pro photographers flee anyway?
Link: Instagram says it’s going to delete language from its new terms of service that caused widespreading out-freaking across the Internet.
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Study exposes social media sites that delete photographs’ metadata
Link: Facebook and Twitter consistently remove the metadata from images, a new study by the International Press Telecommunications Council has revealed. Google+, meanwhile, comes out on top
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Stalked for Protecting Copyright, Author Gets Restraining Order
Link: Victims of ELI’s attacks–including stock photo agencies and attorneys who help them enforce copyright– are cheering, but doing so quietly, for fear of fueling renewed attacks if they speak up. Chan and his attorney say he is being denied his rights of free speech, and that he is the victim of judicial overreach and…
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AFP v Morel case to be judged in September
AFP v Morel case to be judged in September – 1854 Photography Three years after Daniel Morel entered litigation against Agence France-Presse and Getty Images over the unauthorised distribution of some of his images, a trial date has been set. On 16 September, a jury will be asked to rule on some of the outstanding…
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Why Can’t We Take Pictures in Art Museums?
Why Can’t We Take Pictures in Art Museums? In an attempt to balance copyright restrictions and ever-present camera phones, some museums are loosening their ‘no photography’ policies via ARTnews.com: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/photography-in-art-museums-2222/ “You are fighting an uphill battle if you restrict,” says Nina Simon, director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and author of…
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$1 billion worth of stolen content
Link: While Tumblr always had a policy of abiding to the DMCA and would take down any flagged images not properly licensed, it is however a fact that out of the 107.8 million blogs and 50.6 billion posts, the majority are made of images stolen from other sources.
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» Tumblr restores ‘If iPhoneographers Replaced Photojournalists’ post JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/08/23/tumblr-restores-if-iphoneographers-replaced-photojournalists-post/ Fujifilm Japan’s recently-announced Instax Mini 90 is an instant film camera that wears the same retro styling seen in some of the company’s other cameras like the X-M1. It uses Instax film, Fuji’s instant film that measures 2.13 x 3.4 inches — about the size of a credit card.
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My content is your content
Link: This quick edit of images from Syria below was done in a few minutes using a free web app called Storify. All I had to do was type in keywords into a search that covers Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr, G+ and many more, select the images I liked and publish it on my blog.…
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News Flash Fellow Photographers You’ve Already Sold Your Soul To Facebook
Link: Let me be blunt. If you’ve been using Facebook to this point everything you fear has already been realized… too little, too late
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Copyright Report Recommends $30K Small Claim Damage Cap
via NPPA: A key lesson for photographers attending the Missouri Photo Workshop, and for all documentary photographers, is that time matters. It’s just not possible to drop into the lives of people and expect that your pictures will honestly reveal the character of your subjects
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Who owns the copyright to Vivian Maier’s street photography?
Link: Maier’s photographic legacy now is worth thousands, if not millions, of dollars, so the state and the stewards of the various Maier collections have a compelling interest to maintain and exercise their ownership of these materials. It will be interesting to see how this legal situation plays out over the coming years.
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PPE 2013: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Social Media
Link: The theme of Thursday’s PhotoPlus Expo panel “Practicing Safe Social Media” seemed to be that social media is a necessary evil in today’s photography industry so photographers need to be smart about how they use it
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AFP and Getty Images found liable for willful copyright infringement, Haitian photojournalist Daniel Morel wins maximum damages.
Link: Gasps were heard in the courtroom as the trial of Daniel Morel vs. Agence France Presse (AFP) and Getty Images ended at the Thurgood Marshall US Court House in Manhattan with Morel being awarded $1.2m in damages, the maximum possible. Jury members said they were “outraged” by the behavior of both agencies. EPUK was…
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Agence France Presse And Getty Images Seek New Trial After Million Dollar Loss In Morel Copyright Infringement Case
Link: lawyers from Venable LLP for AFP and Davis Wright Tremaine LLP for Getty filed post-trial documents asking the court to strike the jury’s finding of wilful infringement and greatly reduce the damages awarded to Morel. Failing that, they have requested that an entirely new trial be held.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer tries to stop Rams fan who’s selling his work
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: https://jimromenesko.com/ “A week later,” Lee tells me, “I did challenge Mr. Lawrence on Twitter for stealing my picture and selling it. That was when he made his two Twitter account and his Instagram account private. …
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Getty Image’s Gamble
Link: Getty Images announcement today that it has put 35 Million of its 80 million images up for free is no surprise. Here’s why .
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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…