Category: Copyright

  • Supreme Court Declines to Hear Patrick Cariou’s Copyright Claim Against Richard Prince

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    Supreme Court Declines to Hear Patrick Cariou’s Copyright Claim Against Richard Prince | PDNPulse The US Supreme Court has declined to review Patrick Cariou’s copyright infringement claim against artist Richard Prince, the Associated Press has reported. A federal appeals court ruled last spring that artist Richard Prince did not infringe Cariou’s copy via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/11/supreme-court-declines-to-hear-patrick-carious-copyright-claim-against-richard-prince.html…

  • Canadian Photogs Now Officially Own the Copyright to All of Their Photos

    Canadian Photogs Now Officially Own the Copyright to All of Their Photos

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    Canadian Photogs Now Officially Own the Copyright to All of Their Photos A big win for photographers in Canada: as of today, you now officially own the copyright to all your photographs regardless of whether they were via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2012/11/07/canadian-photogs-now-officially-own-the-copyright-to-all-of-their-photos/ A big win for photographers in Canada: as of today, you now officially own the…

  • Paying for pin-ups : Columbia Journalism Review

    Paying for pin-ups : Columbia Journalism Review

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    Paying for pin-ups Why Getty Images is partnering with Pinterest via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/cloud_control/getty_on_copyright_pinterest.php this gives us a chance to take advantage of our image search technology, find out where our images are being used and then reattach the metadata and provide the attribution for the content

  • Agency Reputations at Stake in Historic Copyright Trial

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    Link: Editorial Photographers UK | Agency Reputations at Stake in Historic Copyright Trial Daniel Morel’s copyright theft case against photo agencies Agence France Presse (AFP) and Getty Images will begin on Tuesday November 12th, 2013 at the Thurgood Marshall US Court House in Manhattan, before Federal District Court Judge Alison Nathan. The stakes are high…

  • Your Favorite Iconic Sports Photo Might Be Stolen Property

    Your Favorite Iconic Sports Photo Might Be Stolen Property

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    Your Favorite Iconic Sports Photo Might Be Stolen Property Seven sideline photographers are suing for the misuse of thousands of images—and they're just the latest to expose the complexities of copyright in the Internet age. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/11/your-favorite-iconic-sports-photo-might-be-stolen-property/281182/ Seven sideline photographers are suing for the misuse of thousands of images—and they’re just the latest…

  • Photo Copyright Claims Follow Book Publisher

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    Photo Copyright Claims Follow Book Publisher      (CN) – Pearson Education must face claims that it printed and globally distributed thousands of photos in textbooks without permission, Link: http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/10/18/62160.htm Pearson Education must face claims that it printed and globally distributed thousands of photos in textbooks without permission, a federal judge ruled.      The publisher faces five lawsuits…

  • Slaves of the Internet, Unite!

    Slaves of the Internet, Unite!

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    Opinion | Slaves of the Internet, Unite! They really do admire your work, just not enough to pay one cent for it. Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/27/opinion/sunday/slaves-of-the-internet-unite.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 People who would consider it a bizarre breach of conduct to expect anyone to give them a haircut or a can of soda at no cost will ask you, with a…

  • ‘Misappropriation’ Art or Transformative Fair Use? It’s Complicated!

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    ‘Misappropriation’ Art or Transformative Fair Use? It’s Complicated! – NPPA Advocacy Committee In the ongoing copyright infringement case by photographer Patrick Cariou against “appropriation artist” Richard Prince, both sides have filed briefs respectively supporting and opposing the August 21, 2013 petition for a writ of certiorari filed by Cario via NPPA Advocacy Committee: http://blogs.nppa.org/advocacy/2013/10/17/misappropriation-art-or-transformative-fair-use-its-complicated/ To…

  • Pinterest Closes Another Copyright Hole, Inks A Deal With Getty Images, Will Pay A Fee For Metadata

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    Pinterest Closes Another Copyright Hole, Inks A Deal With Getty Images, Will Pay A Fee For Metadata – TechCrunch With a fresh $225 million in its pocket, Pinterest is gearing up to spend a little of it to build out its platform and the data that powers it — and close up a copyright hole…

  • Photography & The Law: Access, Copyright and Social Media Issues

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    PPE 2013: Photography & The Law: Access, Copyright and Social Media Issues | PDNPulse During a talk at PhotoPlus Expo 2013, sponsored by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), attorneys Mickey Osterreicher and Alicia Wagner Calzada provided tips for how photographers can protect their First Amendment rights and control the co via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/10/ppe-2013-photography-the-law-access-copyright-and-social-media-issues.html During…

  • NFL, Getty and AP Hit With Copyright Infringement Lawsuit

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    NFL, Getty and AP Hit With Copyright Infringement Lawsuit | PDNPulse Seven photographer are suing the National Football League and two image distributors–Getty Images and Associated Press (AP)–for copyright infringement over widespread use of their images in NFL ads, products and promotions without fair compensation, accor via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/10/nfl-getty-and-ap-hit-with-copyright-infringement-lawsuit.html Photographer Paul Spinelli is the lead…

  • Meet Cody Foster & Co., the design pirates who help big retailers rip off artists

    Meet Cody Foster & Co., the design pirates who help big retailers rip off artists

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    Meet Cody Foster & Co., the design pirates who help big retailers rip off artists Here’s another storming article from John Brownlee, this time about Cody Foster & Co, a purveyor of cheap accessories that’s becoming infamous for freakishly shameless swipes of oth… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/10/18/meet-cody-foster-co-the-de.html Cody Foster & Co, a purveyor of cheap…

  • David Byrne: ‘The internet will suck all creative content out of the world’

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    David Byrne: ‘The internet will suck all creative content out of the world’ The boom in digital streaming may generate profits for record labels and free content for consumers, but it spells disaster for today’s artists, says David Byrne via the Guardian: http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/11/david-byrne-internet-content-world The boom in digital streaming may generate profits for record labels and…

  • Beware Facebook’s New Terms of Service

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    Link: Beware Facebook’s New Terms of Service | American Society of Media Photographers Facebook claims the right to monetize, not just your images, but a sizable portion of your entire online identity

  • Houzz Has Your Image Rights, How Long Before They’re Selling Them?

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    Houzz Has Your Image Rights, How Long Before They’re Selling Them? – A Photo Editor It may already be too late. Houzz appears to be using the images posted by professional photographers to illustrate editorial stories they create for the front of the site. One photographer was contacted by a staff writer to find out…

  • Newspaper Editor Says Posting a Photo to Facebook Makes it Public Domain

    Newspaper Editor Says Posting a Photo to Facebook Makes it Public Domain

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    Newspaper Editor Says Posting a Photo to Facebook Makes it Public Domain Normally, we wouldn’t give much attention to the thoughts of an editor/publisher for a small community newspaper. But the response to photographer Kristen via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2013/09/30/newspaper-editor-says-facebook-photo-post-equals-public-domain/ the whopper comes at the end of the editor’s phone message: “Also, the photograph is in the…

  • In TwitPic Copyright Claim, Daniel Morel Seeks $13.2 Million from AFP, Getty

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    In TwitPic Copyright Claim, Daniel Morel Seeks $13.2 Million from AFP, Getty | PDNPulse Photographer Daniel Morel is seeking as much as $13.2 million from AFP and Getty Images at a trial to determine damages for copyright infringement of his exclusive images of the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, which Morel had posted via…

  • A Letter to Mr. Zuckerberg

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    Link: A Letter to Mr. Zuckerberg | Thoughts of a Bohemian I hope this note is read by you and all of your tech company friends, who will take note that regarding a photograph, “If you generate revenues on it, around it, relating to it, we want a piece of it.”

  • The photo BuzzFeed wishes it hadn’t used

    The photo BuzzFeed wishes it hadn’t used

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    The photo BuzzFeed wishes it hadn’t used The viral site pissed off one Flickr user with a keen sense of vigilante Internet justice via Columbia Journalism Review: http://www.cjr.org/cloud_control/buzzfeed_photo_copyright_fair.php?page=all The viral site pissed off one Flickr user with a keen sense of vigilante Internet justice

  • Facebrick

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    Link: Facebrick | Thoughts of a Bohemian Apparently Facebook will allow you to decide via tools which content can and cannot be monetized by them. That is important for photographers because it seems that there will be an opportunity to protect images from being used for advertising campaigns sold by Facebook. However, since the tools…