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 the work makes the scanning “fair use” under copyright law, Chin ruled.
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
In its ruling for Prince, The appeals court took a broad view of fair use, finding that Prince’s works qualified as fair use even though they were not intended as commentary on the original works by Cariou. The decision was a victory for appropriation artists, who take elements of works by other artists without permission, and use them in new contexts, often as a form of commentary on society or popular culture
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 copyright to all your photographs regardless of whether they were commissioned. The development comes as a result of Canada major copyright reform bill (Bill C-11) taking effect this morning. One of the stated goals of the new copyright law is to, “give photographers the same rights as other creators.”
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
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 and EPUK will be in New York to follow the action.
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 to expose the complexities of copyright in the Internet age.
(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 in New Jersey from Minden Pictures Inc. (MPI), a Watsonville, Calif.-based stock photo agency, and 12 of its photographers, including Frans Lanting , Jim Brandenburg, and Mark Moffett
They really do admire your work, just not enough to pay one cent for it.
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 straight face and a clear conscience, whether you wouldn’t be willing to write an essay or draw an illustration for them for nothing
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 illustrate how difficult these types of decisions are, the case involved 30 pieces of artwork, but the appeals court was only able to make a determination on 25 of them, remanding the remaining 5 pieces back to the lower court for application of “the proper standard” so as to “determine in the first instance whether any of them infringes on Cariou’s copyrights or whether Prince is entitled to a fair use defense with regard to those artworks as well.”
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 in the process. Pinterest today announced a deal with Getty Images — the image
via TechCrunch: http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/25/pinterest-inks-deal-with-getty-images-will-pay-a-fee-for-the-photo-agencys-metadata/
For Pinterest, it will be able to use this data to provide more detail to its users about what they’re looking at, including photographers’ names and what’s in the picture.
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 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 copyright and distribution of their work.
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 plaintiff in the case. The other photographer plaintiffs are Paul Jasienski, David Stluka, Thomas E. Witte, David Drapkin, George Newman Lowrance and Scott Boehm.
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 accessories that’s becoming infamous for freakishly shameless swipes of other people’s work. By handling the dirty work of creative misappropriation, its clients — reported to include Anthropologie, Fab, Nordstroms, and more — may sell work designed by cool artists without paying them a cent.
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 free content for consumers, but it spells disaster for today’s artists across the creative industries
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 who built what was de
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/10/02/houzz-has-your-image-rights-how-long-before-theyre-selling-them/
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 who built what was depicted in the images with no mention of licensing the images for this reuse.
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 public domain in the sense that it’s on Facebook, so I don’t know. Maybe you ought to charge Facebook.”
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 Twitter. T
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/09/in-twitpic-copyright-claim-daniel-morel-seeks-13-2-million-from-afp-getty.html
The trial is scheduled to begin November 12
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