Category: Copyright
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Getty to Let Bloggers and Others Use Photos Free
Getty to Let Bloggers and Others Use Photos Free The photo agency has decided to allow noncommercial websites and social media users to publish its images at no cost using an “embedding” tool. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/07/business/media/getty-to-let-bloggers-and-others-use-photos-free.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Mr. Peters said the agency would be taking a liberal approach to the term “noncommercial,” including websites that carry ads,…
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Getty’s Greg Peters on Why Free Images Are Good for Photographers, And for the Photo Industry
Getty’s Craig Peters on Why Free Images Are Good for Photographers, And for the Photo Industry | PDNPulse Following the announcement by Getty Images that the agency would be allowing non-commercial uses of its images free of charge, we interviewed Craig Peters, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Marketing at Content Images at Getty, to…
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Getty Images Image Embed: Progressive or Destructive?
Getty Images Image Embed: Progressive or Destructive? – PhotoShelter Blog The image above by Flickr contributor Jack Fussell artfully illustrates change, but not the type of “change” that means money. Because I’m using it for free compliments of Getty Images new image embed feature which allows Internet users to use images for via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2014/03/getty-images-progressive-destructive/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29…
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Getty’s Free Image Program: New Revenue Model, or a Surrender to Copyright Infringement?
Getty’s Free Image Program: New Revenue Model, or a Surrender to Copyright Infringement? | PDNPulse Getty Images lit up the Twittersphere today with an announcement that it was making its archive available free of charge for bloggers and other non-commercial users. Some of the big questions are: What is Getty gaining by making images free…
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The world’s largest photo service just made its pictures free to use
The world’s largest photo service just made its pictures free to use If you go to the Getty Images website, you’ll see millions of images, all watermarked. There are more than a hundred years of photography here, from FDR on the campaign trail to last Sunday’s… via The Verge: http://mobile.theverge.com/2014/3/5/5475202/getty-images-made-its-pictures-free-to-use Getty Images is dropping the…
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You Won’t Believe How This Magazine Replied to a Photographer’s Copyright Claim
You Won’t Believe How This Magazine Replied to a Photographer’s Copyright Claim UPDATE: We’ve received responses from both Survival Magazine (which is online only had says it has no print edition) and the photographer. You can read their statements at the bottom of this post. Original item below: How should you respond if a photograp…
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I hate Buzzfeed.
Link: I hate Buzzfeed. Between the stolen images, vapid content, lame jokes, recycled memes and desperate assimilation of all things pop culture, I feel like I’m dealing with a cultural hydra
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The 2 Teenagers Who Run the Wildly Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics
The 2 Teenagers Who Run the Wildly Popular Twitter Feed @HistoryInPics Meet Xavier Di Petta and Kyle Cameron, ages 17 and 19, whose ability to build a massive audience from nothing may be unparalleled in media today. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/01/the-2-teenagers-who-run-the-wildly-popular-twitter-feed-historyinpics/283291/ The audiences that Di Petta and Cameron have built are created with the work of…
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Labeled and filtered out
Link: Labeled and filtered out | Thoughts of a Bohemian What this drop menu allows you to do, in other word, is to only see photographs that are, according to Google, free to use ( with variations).
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Getty, AFP Appeal $1.2 Million Jury Verdict in Daniel Morel Case
Getty, AFP Appeal $1.2 Million Jury Verdict in Daniel Morel Case | PDNPulse Getty Images and Agence France-Presse (AFP) have asked a federal district court to undo the $1.2 million jury verdict against them for willful infringement of photographer Daniel Morel’s copyrights, calling the verdict “a miscarriage of justice.” In a bri via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2014/01/getty-afp-appeal-1-2-million-jury-verdict-in-daniel-morel-case.html…
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US Department of Defense’s public domain archive to be privatized, locked up for ten years
US Department of Defense’s public domain archive to be privatized, locked up for ten years Archivist Rick Prelinger sez, “The U.S. Department of Defense has entered into a contract with T3 Media to get its gigantic still and moving image collection digitized at no cost to the gover… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/12/21/us-department-of-defenses-pu.html In exchange for…
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Hey Filmmakers, You Guys Are Next: A Word of Warning from the Music Industry
Hey Filmmakers, You Guys Are Next: A Word of Warning from the Music Industry I feel most filmmakers are looking at this moment in time as an age of opportunity. But having gone through this revolution already in the music business, I feel compelled to tell you why right now we should be questioning everything.There…
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How Ted Koppel and ABC TV Tried to Steal my Life Work
How Ted Koppel and ABC TV Tried to Steal my Life Work How Ted Koppel and ABC TV Tried to Steal my Life Work By Nate Thayer December 8, 2013 I am banned by legal agreement to write the following: ABC Television/ Disney Corporation, after seven years in… via natethayer: http://natethayer.wordpress.com/2013/12/08/how-ted-koppel-and-abc-tv-tried-to-steal-my-life-work/ I am banned by…
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New CC licenses: tighter, shorter, more readable, more global
New CC licenses: tighter, shorter, more readable, more global Creative Commons has released version 4.0 of its sharing-friendly, easy-to-use copyright licenses. The new licenses represent a significant improvement over earlier versions. They work in over 60 j… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/11/29/new-cc-licenses-tighter-shor.html Creative Commons has released version 4.0 of its sharing-friendly, easy-to-use copyright licenses. The new…
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After thoughts _ Morel, AFP, Getty
Link: After thoughts _ Morel, AFP, Getty | Thoughts of a Bohemian The Gods of copyright are satiated . With the recent judgement calling for AFP and Getty Images to disburse $1,2 million to Mr Morel for copyright infringement, they have been offered reverence. Or have they ?
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Haitian Photographer Wins Major U.S. Copyright Victory
Haitian Photographer Wins Major U.S. Copyright Victory In a victory for photographer rights, a New York court awarded Daniel Morel $1.2 million after finding two photo agencies improperly used his photos of Haiti’s earthquake. via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/23/haitian-photographer-wins-major-u-s-copyright-victory/?_r=0&gwh=F695ABF1AB3ABDB8E8CEA4351F9A6A2D All photographs by Dominic Bracco II/Prime/Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting.
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Jury Awards Daniel Morel Full Extent of Law; Finds AFP, Getty Willful in Copyright Violation
Jury Awards Daniel Morel Full Extent of Law; Finds AFP, Getty Willful in Copyright Violation | Rangefinder In a decision this afternoon, the jury on the Daniel Morel vs. Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Getty Images trial awarded the defendant, Daniel Morel, the maximum statutory damages entitled by the law–in the amount of $1.2 million—finding that the corporat…
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Jury Awards Daniel Morel $1.2 Million in Damages from AFP, Getty Images
Jury Awards Daniel Morel $1.2 Million in Damages from AFP, Getty Images | PDNPulse A jury has awarded photographer Daniel Morel $1.2 million in damages after deciding that Agence France-Presse (AFP) and Getty Images willfully violated his copyright. The award is the maximum amount of statutory damages possible under the law. AFP and Get via PDNPulse:…
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After Closing Arguments, Verdict Expected Soon in Morel v. AFP and Getty Images
After Closing Arguments, Verdict Expected Soon in Morel v. AFP and Getty Images | PDNPulse The jury is expected to announce its verdict today in the trial to determine damages in the copyright infringement case photographer Daniel Morel brought against Agence France-Presse and Getty Images, following yesterday’s closing arguments by lawyers via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/11/after-closing-arguments-verdict-expected-soon-in-morel-v-afp-and-getty-images.html…
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Google’s Book-Scanning Is Fair Use, Judge Rules in Landmark Copyright Case
Link: Google’s Book-Scanning Is Fair Use, Judge Rules in Landmark Copyright Case | Threat Level | Wired.com In a 30-page decision (.pdf) Judge Denny Chin of New York ruled that Google’s move to digitize millions of university and commercially available books is on its face a violation of the owners’ copyrights. But Google’s limited use of…