Category: Copyright
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250 Million or So Reasons to Register Your Copyright
250 Million or So Reasons to Register Your Copyright – PhotoShelter Blog We recently spoke to PhotoAttorney.com’s Carolyn Wright and former ASMP President Richard Kelly about the importance of registering your copyright regularly. In that vein, APhotoEditor recently updated us on the Richard Reinsdorf v. Skechers case which il via PhotoShelter Blog: http://blog.photoshelter.com/2013/09/250-million-or-so-reasons-to-register-your-copyright/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 The good…
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Facebook Makes Alarming Changes to Terms, ASMP Breaks Down the Changes
Facebook Makes Alarming Changes to Terms, ASMP Breaks Down the Changes | PDNPulse Facebook has altered their terms of service to make it possible for companies that pay the social media network to utilize Facebook users’ content and likeness without compensation or permission. The changes are sure to alienate Facebook’s users in the cr via…
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Discussing The Delicate Balance of Sharing & Selling Your Images
Discussing The Delicate Balance of Sharing & Selling Your Images – PhotoShelter Blog If we took infringement fear to the extreme, then we’d never even download images off our DSLRs. But then would our images be as valuable – not to mention, how would we ever make a living selling them? Richard Kelly, Pittsburgh-based photographer…
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Richard Reinsdorf v. Skechers Update
Richard Reinsdorf v. Skechers Update – A Photo Editor Looks like I missed an update to the Richard Reinsdorf’s $250 million dollar lawsuit against Skechers from February of this year (thx for the tip Josh). To recap from my previous post “Skechers Sketchy Defense For Ignoring License Terms“: The suit started via A Photo Editor:…
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SyFy and NBC “used Cosplayer photos without permission”
SyFy and NBC “used Cosplayer photos without permission” Marketing its new show, Heroes of Cosplay, SyFy and NBC used photographs of cosplayers without the permission of the photographers. It claims, in its defense, that the subjects of photographs ̶… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/08/26/syfy-and-nbc-used-cosplayer.html It claims, in its defense, that the subjects of photographs “enjoy rights…
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Photography Trade Organizations Take Aim at Instagram Terms
Photography Trade Organizations Take Aim at Instagram Terms | PDNPulse Several professional photography trade organizations have banded together to study Instagram’s Terms of Service, and today the American Society of Media Photographers issued the following press release: Photographic Community, Led by The American Society via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2013/08/photography-trade-organizations-take-aim-at-instagram-terms.html Several professional photography trade organizations have banded together…
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Answering Your Copyright Questions: What To Do If You’ve Been Infringed
Answering Your Copyright Questions: What To Do If You’ve Been Infringed – PhotoShelter Blog Earlier this month we did a live webinar with Carolyn E. Wright – aka The Photo Attorney. Carolyn is a full-time attorney whose practice is aimed squarely at the legal needs of photographers. During the webinar talked extensively about copyright infringem via…
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J. Paul Getty Museum opens up its collections of images
J. Paul Getty Museum opens up its collections of images The J. Paul Getty Museum, which collects works of art including paintings, drawings, manuscripts, sculptures and photographs, is making its collections of digital images available for all uses without charge, marking a radical shift in its long-standing p via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2289455/j-paul-getty-museum-opens-up-its-collections-of-images In…
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Video Interview: Copyright Registration & Infringement Information
Video Interview: Copyright Registration & Infringement Information – PhotoShelter Blog “It’s ideal to register your images before infringement – register them right away after you’ve taken them.” – Carolyn E. Wright, aka The Photo Attorney The steps to registering your copyright can seen daunting, but the truth is that it doesn’t have to be via PhotoShelter Blog:…
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The cost of a free lunch
Link: The cost of a free lunch | Thoughts of a Bohemian The belief that an image is free, just because it is denuded of any financial obligation, is a false impression that is unfortunately traveling widely . It is almost like believing that a highly contagious virus is harmless because it has no immediate visible…
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The Economics of Copyright Infringement in Robert Caplin vs Perez Hilton
The Economics of Copyright Infringement in Robert Caplin vs Perez Hilton – PhotoShelter Blog Freelance photographer Robert Caplin filed a copyright infringement and DMCA violation complaint on June 26, 2013 against Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr., aka Perez Hilton. Hilton is best described as an Internet gossip blogger, who has been known to approp via PhotoShelter…
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NYTimes Photographer Sues Perez Hilton for $2.1M Over Copyright Infringement
NYTimes Photographer Sues Perez Hilton for $2.1M Over Copyright Infringement BuzzFeed isn’t the only blog that’s routinely accused of using photographs without permission. American celebrity blogger Perez Hilton (above right) is via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2013/06/29/nytimes-photographer-sues-perez-hilton-for-2-1-million-for-copyright-infringement/ The Phoblographer reports that although Caplin’s websites contain preventative measures designed to combat “photo theft,” Hilton took screenshots of the photos…
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My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89
My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89, Less Than What I Make From a Single T-Shirt Sale! As a songwriter Pandora paid me $16.89* for 1,159,000 play of “Low” last quarter. Less than I make from a single T-shirt sale. Okay that’s a slight exaggeration. That’s ……
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Photographer sues BuzzFeed for $3.6M over viral sharing model
Link: Photographer sues BuzzFeed for $3.6M over viral sharing model — paidContent A photographer says BuzzFeed should pay copyright damages not only for an unauthorized photo that appeared on its site — but for the dozens of other sites on which the photo appeared
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Vogue/Condé Nast Contest Attempts To Secure Free Images For Unlimited Use
Vogue/Condé Nast Contest Attempts To Secure Free Images For Unlimited Use – A Photo Editor From an ASMP press release: ASMP, joined by the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), American Photographic Artists (APA), the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA), Graphic Artists Guild (GAG) and North American Nature Photography Associat via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2013/06/17/vogueconde-nast-contest-attempts-to-secure-free-images-for-unlimited-use/…
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Yunghi Kim: Protecting Our Images
Yunghi Kim: Protecting Our Images Yunghi Kim has gone public with her copyright experiences in pursuing unauthorized use of her images because, she says, she believes her experiences can be helpful to her fellow photographers. via NPPA: https://nppa.org/news/yunghi-kim-protecting-our-images Remember, infringers don’t set the price of your work. You do! My settlements range from 1,000 to…
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AFP v Morel: Judge reconsiders potential damages
AFP v Morel: Judge reconsiders potential damages Agence France-Presse and Getty Images have asked a New York court to reconsider its decision to reject summary judgement in regards to the statutory damages freelance photographer Daniel Morel can claim. The request for reconsideration concerns whether ‘M via British Journal of Photography: http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2270104/afp-v-morel-judge-reconsiders-potential-damages Daniel Morel has been…
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Responses to Appellate Court Decision on Cariou v. Prince
Prince is King & Flux and Focus: Responses to Appellate Court Decision on Cariou v. Prince At left, photograph by Patrick Cariou from the book Yes, Rasta . Right, painting by Richard Prince from his Canal Zone series Last sum… Link: http://blog.photoeye.com/2013/05/prince-is-king-flux-and-focus-responses.html Last summer photo-eye hosted a series of lectures on art law that culminated…
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Copyright Implications of Yahoo Buying Tumblr
Copyright Implications of Yahoo Buying Tumblr – Plagiarism Today With news that Yahoo! is buying Tumblr, we have to stop a second and see how this will affect content creators, both off and on Tumblr. via Plagiarism Today: http://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2013/05/20/copyright-implications-of-yahoo-buying-tumblr/ With the buyout of Tumblr, one of the Web’s most prominent independent companies has come under…
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Associated Press quietly nukes its dumber-than-dumb DRM-for-news system
Associated Press quietly nukes its dumber-than-dumb DRM-for-news system Do you remember the Associated Press’s 2009 announcement that they had discovered a magic-beans technology that would let them stop people from quoting the news unless they paid for license f… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2013/05/18/associated-press-quietly-nukes.html Since the launch… we heard absolutely nothing about NewsRight. There was a…