Category: Copyright

Another Copyright Infringement Ends In Charity Donation, Good PR For Infringer | PDNPulse For the second time in a week a photographer has settled a copyright dispute by getting the infringing corporation to make a donation to charity. Yesterday So Delicious, a maker of dairy-free foods, agreed to make a $10,000 donation to an animal…

Quincy Jones Settles Copyright Claim with Photographer | PDNPulse Music producer Quincy Jones and photographer Michael Donald Jones (aka Mike Jones Photography) have settled their dispute over the photographer’s claim of copyright infringement. Terms of the settlement were not announced. Mike Jones filed suit last year via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2013/02/quincy-jones-settles-copyright-claim-with-photographer.html In this video, Jasmine breaks down…

DKNY Atones for Unauthorized Usage by Donating $25K to Photog’s Community YMCA | PDNPulse   When DKNY used several photographs by Brooklyn, New York-based street photographer Brandon Stanton in a display window without permission, Stanton took to social media to get the word out and ask the clothing company to donate to a local YMCA…

Link: Thoughts of a Bohemian » Blog Archive » Supersize this   
Unlike news, Google displays the complete photographs, not just the links to them. Furthermore, it has recently change its design to display even larger thumbnails ( can we call them thumbnails anymore ?). There shouldn’t be two measures here. Either links are being…

Link: Judge says news organizations infringed on copyrights of photographer | Poynter. Judge Alison Nathan partially granted that motion with this ruling but said that the press agencies “would only be liable, at most, for a single statutory damage award per image infringed.”

Instagram loses nearly half its daily users after terms of use controversy – A Photo Editor Instagram has shed nearly half its daily active users — the highest frequency group — since the fiasco over its terms of use, according to AppStats. Its figures show that Instagram’s active daily users dropped to 8.42 million this…

Did Instagram Really Lose 25% of Users? Instagram lost 4 million of its 16.4 million daily active users over the Christmas holiday, according to the usage trend monitors at AppData — but let's not jump to conclusions. via The Atlantic: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/12/did-instagram-really-lose-25-users/60394/ Instagram lost 4 million of its 16.4 million daily active users over the Christmas…

Bowing to Pressure from Users, Instagram Retracts New Terms of Use | PDNPulse Under a continuing barrage of negative feedback, account cancellations, and defections by its users to other photo sharing services, Instagram has withdrawn the most controversial changes to its terms of service agreement. The about-face means that Instag via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/12/bowing-to-pressure-from-users-instagram-retracts-new-terms-of-use.html So once…

Link: Instagram backtracks on advertising terms of service following global outcry – British Journal of Photography Instagram has reverted to its old terms of service after it faced a wave of protests from users. However, the social publishing platform hasn’t abandoned its plans to monetise its service

Link: An open letter To Kevin Systrom co-founder of Instagram – The Photo Society “No I don’t want to give up 72,000 ‘likes’ on my last @natgeo photo but if the TOS don’t change I might have to. “

Link: Instagram Claims Mixup But For Some Photographers the Damage Is Already Done | Raw File | Wired.com “It’s like I parked my car on a public street and someone else went out there and sold it. That’s not cool,” is how Richard Koci Hernandez, an iPhone photographer and Assistant Professor of New Media at…

Link: Insta-gone? – Shooting from the Hip As I walked down Michigan Avenue this afternoon taking street photos and sharing them on Instagram, I felt like I was doing something wrong.