Category: Copyright
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Google Accused of Enabling Photography Piracy | TIME
Google Accused of Enabling Photography Piracy Getty Images files E.U. complaint against search giant via Time: http://time.com/4307769/google-getty-images/ Photography company Getty Images is accusing Google of scraping images from third party websites and encouraging piracy, adding a new wrinkle to the Mountain View, Calif.’s ongoing legal battles in Europe.
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I Wish More Photographers Were Like Prince | PhotoShelter Blog
I Wish More Photographers Were Like Prince – PhotoShelter Blog This is a guest post by photographer and educator Todd Bigelow. The original piece appeared here. The passing of Prince last week gave the world pause to consider the nearly peerless artistic success and untimely death of an iconic musician. He was renown via PhotoShelter…
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Fair use prevails as Supreme Court rejects Google Books copyright case | Ars Technica
Fair use prevails as Supreme Court rejects Google Books copyright case Fair use is a defense to copyright infringement in US intellectual property law. via Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/04/fair-use-prevails-as-supreme-court-rejects-google-books-copyright-case/ The Supreme Court on Monday declined (PDF) to hear a challenge from the Authors Guild and other writers claiming Google’s scanning of their books amounts to wanton copyright…
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Suit Questions Mapplethorpe Self-Portraits – WSJ
Suit Questions Mapplethorpe Self-Portraits A photographer is suing the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation and several prominent New York museums and galleries for $65 million, alleging copyright infringement over images of Mapplethorpe in drag that have long been identified as self-portraits. via WSJ: http://www.wsj.com/articles/suit-questions-mapplethorpe-self-portraits-1460071954 Photographer sues Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation over images long identified as Mapplethorpe compositions
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Photographer Sues Richard Prince Over Instagram Rip-offs… At Last
Photographer Sues Richard Prince Over Instagram Rip-offs… At Last | PDNPulse Photographer Donald Graham has sued appropriation artist Richard Prince and his gallerist Lawrence Gagosian for copyright infringement of a photo that appeared without Graham’s authorization on Instagram, and then in a gallery exhibition of Prince’s appro via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/01/photographer-sues-richard-prince-over-instagram-rip-offs-at-last.html Prince drew public complaints and…
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SRSLY, they want to put DRM in JPEGs / Boing Boing
SRSLY, they want to put DRM in JPEGs The Joint Photographic Expert Group, which oversees the JPEG format, met in Brussels today to discuss adding DRM to its format, so that there would be images that would be able to force your comput… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/10/13/srsly-they-want-to-put-drm-in.html The Joint Photographic Expert Group, which oversees the…
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Twitter Removes Accounts Over Sharing of Sports Videos – The New York Times
Twitter Removes Accounts Over Sharing of Sports Videos Deadspin and SB Nation accounts were suspended after complaints from the N.F.L., Ultimate Fighting Championship and two college football conferences. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/13/business/media/twitter-removes-accounts-over-sharing-of-sports-videos.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Using GIF animations and Vines, which are six-second looping videos, the two Twitter accounts react quickly during games to bring their hundreds of thousands of…
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When a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer is Asked for Free Photos…
When a Pulitzer Prize-Winning Photographer is Asked for Free Photos… Want to see how a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer responds to a request for free images in exchange for “credit” from a major news corporation? You via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/10/06/when-a-pulitzer-prize-winning-photographer-is-asked-for-free-photos/ David Carson is photojournalist with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who won the Pulitzer Prize with his paper…
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Did I Just Give My #Permission? The Hashtag as Consent | PhotoShelter Blog
Did I Just Give My #Permission? The Hashtag as Consent – PhotoShelter Blog The New York Times published an article about brands using user generated content (UGC) without explicit permission. When Shereen Way posted a photo of her daughter to Instagram with the hashtag #crocs, Crocs pulled the photo and posted it to their websit…
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Retailers’ Use of Their Fans’ Photos Draws Scrutiny – The New York Times
On Instagram and Other Social Media, Redefining ‘User Engagement’ The intersection between brands trying to capitalize on social media activity and people’s expectation of privacy has become murky. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/21/business/media/retailers-use-of-their-fans-photos-draws-scrutiny.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Crocs, which Ms. Way had identified with a hashtag, pulled the snapshot from Instagram and featured it in a gallery of user-generated photographs on its…
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Getty charges blog $868 for Socially Awkward Penguin meme images, demands silence – Boing Boing
Getty charges blog $868 for Socially Awkward Penguin meme images, demands silence Getty Images recently billed a German women’s geek culture blog $868 for a 2012 blog post that contained Socially Awkward Penguin meme images. Getty also insisted that the blog, Geek Sisters,… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/09/04/getty-charges-blog-868-for-so.html Getty Images recently billed a German women’s geek…
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This Site Will Sell Your Instagram Selfie Without Your Permission for $150
This Site Will Sell Your Instagram Selfie Without Your Permission for $150 Earlier this year, artist Richard Prince sparked a huge controversy by taking people’s Instagram photos, making very small changes to them, and selling via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/08/11/this-site-will-sell-your-instagram-selfie-without-your-permission-for-150/ It’s a service called Sellfie, which scours Instagram for the hashtag #selfie and then sells the photos…
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This is What It Looks Like to Sue a Viral ‘Clickbait’ Site for Photo Copyright Infringement
This is What It Looks Like to Sue a Viral ‘Clickbait’ Site for Photo Copyright Infringement California-based photographer Jeff Werner has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the popular website ViralNova for publishing (and profiting via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/07/31/this-is-what-it-looks-like-to-sue-a-viral-clickbait-site-for-photo-copyright-infringement/ California-based photographer Jeff Werner has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the popular website ViralNova for publishing…
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Juxtapoz Magazine – “Richard Prince- New Portraits” @ Gagosian Gallery, London
Juxtapoz Magazine – “Richard Prince- New Portraits” @ Gagosian Gallery, London Richard Prince’s controversial appropriated Instagram selfie photos have made their way to the Gagosian Gallery in London and are currently on d… Link: http://www.juxtapoz.com/photography/richard-prince-new-portraits-gagosian-gallery-londaon Richard Prince’s controversial appropriated Instagram selfie photos have made their way to the Gagosian Gallery in London and are currently…
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10 questions to a founder : Imagewiki – Kaptur
10 questions to a founder : Imagewiki – Kaptur A new model to compensate photographers for social media use; Imagewiki’s CEO explains via Kaptur: http://kaptur.co/10-questions-to-a-founder-imagewiki/ Imagewiki enables platforms to identify the ownership information of images that are uploaded to their sites in real-time as they’re uploaded. Our content partners can choose to participate in an…
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Orphan Works Copyright Law Being Considered Again in the US
Orphan Works Copyright Law Being Considered Again in the US Heads up, photographers: major changes to US copyright law may be just around the corner, and you may or may not like what’s being proposed. The US via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2015/07/21/orphan-works-copyright-law-being-considered-again-in-the-us/ Heads up, photographers: major changes to US copyright law may be just around the corner,…
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Fair Use App: a guide to fair use for online video creators – Boing Boing
Fair Use App: a guide to fair use for online video creators Art from New Media Rights writes, “We spend our time working with online video creators on fair use, so we created The Fair Use App. We filtered down our experiences working with video creato… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2015/07/17/fair-use-app-a-guide-to-fair.html Hajdu Tamas is a Romanian…
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How the Photo Community Would Reimagine Copyright | American Photo
How the Photo Community Would Reimagine Copyright Making sense of Richard Prince’s “New Portraits” is kind of like trying to orient yourself in a hall of mirrors. The greatest revelation from the work and the ensuing discussion—a period of art commentary so pervasive and drawn out, there is no precedent I can think of from…
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NO PHOTOS: Why the Monterey County Weekly Isn’t Running Professional Camera Photos from the Aerosmith Concert in Salinas – by Nic Coury | The Photo Brigade
NO PHOTOS: Why the Monterey County Weekly Isn’t Running Professional Camera Photos from the Aerosmith Concert in Salinas – by Nic Coury – The Photo Brigade Photographer Nic Coury decided to shoot a recent Aerosmith concert only with his iPhone in protest to the restrictive photo contract he was forced to sign in order to…
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Freebooting: Stolen YouTube videos going viral on Facebook.
People Used to Share YouTube Videos on Facebook. Now They’re Stealing Them. Destin Sandlin is a missile flight test engineer from Alabama who moonlights as a YouTube star. His science-y YouTube channel, SmarterEveryDay, boasts… via Slate Magazine: http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2015/07/freebooting_stolen_youtube_videos_going_viral_on_facebook.html Are plagiarized YouTube videos helping fuel the social network’s astonishing video growth?