Photographer Dennis Morris has won his lawsuit against the appropriation artist known as Mr. Brainwash for unauthorized use of a decades-old image (shown at right) of deceased punk rocker Sid Vicious. A federal district court judge in Los Angeles recently
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 shelter a
Yesterday So Delicious, a maker of dairy-free foods, agreed to make a $10,000 donation to an animal shelter as a mea culpa for using one of photographer Theron Humphrey’s images without permission in a post on their Facebook page
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
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 in his com
“Absolutely, we should continue to talk about and debate the appropriateness of using the tools we have in our hands now, but for me the bottom line is always going to be: did we inform the viewer/reader without confusion or deception?
Three months ago DKNY offered the blogger behind Humans of New York a deal to display his photos in store windows, but he wanted more, and the deal fell through. And then on Monday morning, Brandon Stanton spotted his popular photos in DKNY windows anyway
Three months ago DKNY offered the up-and-coming street-style photographer Brandon Stanton $15,000 to use 300 of his photos for a new display in its store windows, he says. But Stanton wanted more money, and the deal fell through. And then on Monday morning, as back-to-back-to-back fashion weeks were winding down and the spring collections were going on sale, Stanton spotted his popular photos in DKNY windows anyway — and took to Facebook to rally support.
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 paid for, or they are not. In France and in Belgium previously, Google has decided to pay. So why not photography ? It certainly could use the financial help.
It’s as if they lifted the plot right out of a Cory Doctorow novel. In Maryland, the Prince George’s County Board of Education is considering a proposal that would allow the school system to …
The sweeping intellectual property grab could mean that anything from a drawing to an app to a lesson plan would become the property of the school system, not the creator
Late on Monday a Manhattan judge ruled in the Daniel Morel case against AFP and the Washington Post that both news organizations infringed his copyright by republishing images that he posted to Twitter during the Haiti earthquake 2 years ago (download the
Away from the courtroom there’s also a comic sub-plot to be resolved, starring various figures who either absolved AFP of blame or actively defended the agency’s actions. Aside from the usual freetard nutters these included the National Press Photographer Association’s Mickey Osterreicher, photo blogger John Harrington and Visa Pour L’Image’s J-F Leroy.
A federal court has ruled that Agence France-Press violated photographer Daniel Morel’s copyrights by distributing his images of the 2010 Haiti earthquake without permission. The copyright infringement claims turned on whether the terms of service for Twi
But the court declined to rule on whether the infringement was willful. The court left the question of willfulness, which will determine how much in damages the defendants will have to pay to Morel, for a jury to decide.
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’s updated Terms of Service and Privacy Policy takes effect Saturday, the company reminded its users in e-mails sent Tuesday. At the same time, AppStats data shows the photo-sharing app has lost around 42 percent of its daily active users in the
That said, AppStats finds Instagram’s monthly active users growing steadily. The app had 41.5 million monthly active users in mid-December, which has grown to 46.1 million monthly active users today. In essence, more people are using Instagram, not just as often.
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 week, from 16.35 million
Reuters photographer Akintunde Akinleye recently gained rare access to an illegal oil refinery near the river Nun in Nigeria’s oil state of Bayelsa. There, he was able to document the secret and dangerous practice of oil bunkering, where locals hack into oil pipelines, steal the crude oil, and refine or sell it abroad. For over 50 years now, crude oil and natural gas have been extracted from the Niger Delta by large corporations, which have had their share of environmental disasters. The ongoing damage from the tapped pipes and these makeshift refineries continue to take a terrible toll on the environment and the local population
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.
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
Instagram may be heading for a partial do-over on its 100% Cask Strength Terms of Service Shitshow, but it’s still cramming an arbitration clause down its users’ throats, which means th…
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
So once again Instagram has modified its privacy policy and terms of service. When the latest versions take effect–on January 16, 2013 and January 19, respectively–Instagram will have broad rights to use photos, but only with permission from the contributors.
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
“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 UC Berkeley, summarized his interpretation of the original TOS.
