Category: Copyright

  • Owners of Marilyn Monroe Photos Win Big Legal Victory Over Actor’s Heirs

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    Owners of Marilyn Monroe Photos Win Big Legal Victory Over Actor’s Heirs | PDNPulse Owners of Marilyn Monroe photographs have won a decisive legal victory in the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, which has affirmed that Marilyn Monroe heirs have inherited no rights of publicity to the actress’s likeness.…

  • The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video’s Robotic Overlords

    The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video’s Robotic Overlords

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    The Algorithmic Copyright Cops: Streaming Video’s Robotic Overlords Livestream and automated copyright blocking algorithms don’t play very well together; and from the looks of things, the problem is only going to get worse. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/09/streaming-videos-robotic-overlords-algorithmic-copyright-cops/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Wired%3A+Blog+-+Threat+Level%29 As live streaming video surges in popularity, so are copyright “bots” — automated systems that match content against a…

  • Photographers Can Now Use FBI Anti-Piracy Seal. But Should They?

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    Photographers Can Now Use FBI Anti-Piracy Seal. But Should They? | PDNPulse Anyone who has ever rented a movie has probably read the riot act on copyright infringement, which appears under a colorful FBI anti-piracy seal (shown at right) and says this: “The unauthorized reproduction or distribution of a copyrighted work is illega via PDNPulse:…

  • Google Changes Search Engine to Penalize Copyright Infringers

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    Google Changes Search Engine to Penalize Copyright Infringers | PDNPulse Starting this week, web sites that have received high numbers of removal notices for unauthorized use of copyrighted content will rank lower in Google’s search results, the search engine giant announced on its Inside Search blog on Friday. Because Google via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/08/google-changes-search-engine-to-penalize-copyright-infringers.html

  • Self-Proclaimed Photo Montage Virtuoso Is Sued for Stealing Photos

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    Self-Proclaimed Photo Montage Virtuoso Is Sued for Stealing Photos | PDNPulse Muench Photography and Mountain Light Photography have filed a copyright infringement claim against a Las Vegas-based photomontage artist for unauthorized use of two of their photographs. The artist, Thomas Barbèy, creates surrealistic photomontages. Acco via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2012/08/self-proclaimed-photo-montage-virtuoso-is-sued-for-stealing-photos.html The artist, Thomas Barbèy, creates surrealistic photomontages.…

  • Authors Guild Seeks $2 Billion From Google for Book Scanning

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    Link: Authors Guild Seeks $2 Billion From Google for Book Scanning | Threat Level | Wired.com Google, which displays the book snippets next to advertising on its search engine, claims it has the right under the “fair-use” doctrine to publish parts of each book. The guild told U.S. District Judge District Judge Denny Chin of…

  • With Much Ado About Public Service, Google Pleads Fair Use in Big Copyright Case

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    With Much Ado About Public Service, Google Pleads Fair Use in Big Copyright Case | PDNPulse Arguing that its Google Books program makes fair use of copyrighted books by providing an indispensable public service, Google has asked a federal court to dismiss The Authors Guild’s claim that Google is infringing the copyrights of authors on…

  • Shirley Jones Consented to Red Carpet Images, Appeals Court Affirms

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    Celebrity Smackdown II: Shirley Jones Consented to Red Carpet Images, Appeals Court Affirms | PDNPulse A federal appeals court has upheld a decision to dismiss a lawsuit against Corbis by actress Shirley Jones, who charged that the photo agency violated her rights of publicity by marketing images of her without permission. The appeals court also…

  • Letter to Chuck Close from the digital artist whom he threatened with a lawsuit

    Letter to Chuck Close from the digital artist whom he threatened with a lawsuit

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    Letter to Chuck Close from the digital artist whom he threatened with a lawsuit Scott Blake is a computer artist who created a Photoshop plug-in called th “Chuck Close Filter,” which transformed images into mosaics reminiscent of the famous hand-made mosaics create… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2012/07/11/letter-from-to-chuck-close-fro.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 Scott Blake is a computer artist who created a…

  • Friday Happy Hour: Wall of Shame Calls Out Photogs Who Steal Others’ Work & More

    Friday Happy Hour: Wall of Shame Calls Out Photogs Who Steal Others’ Work & More

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    Friday Happy Hour: Wall of Shame Calls Out Photogs Who Steal Others’ Work & More – PhotoShelter Blog Photographers who post their work online run the inherent risk of having their work stolen. But stolen by another photographer? Come on, that’s just disgraceful. Now one Tumblr user has decided to put these photo-stealing photographers to shame, by…

  • Megaupload Bombshell: Judge Rules Police Anti-Piracy Raids Illegal

    Megaupload Bombshell: Judge Rules Police Anti-Piracy Raids Illegal

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    Megaupload Bombshell: Judge Rules Police Anti-Piracy Raids Illegal The American government’s bid to extradite copyright infringement king Kim Dotcom to the United States was dealt a body blow Thursday, when a New Zealand High Court judge ruled that the raids on Doctom’s home earlier this year were “illegal.” The decision via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/06/megaupload-raids/all/1?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired27b+%28Blog+-+27B+Stroke+6+%28Threat+Level%29%29 The American…

  • Rebuttals to David Lowery’s indictment of “free culture” and its alleged murder of musicians

    Rebuttals to David Lowery’s indictment of “free culture” and its alleged murder of musicians

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    Rebuttals to David Lowery’s indictment of “free culture” and its alleged murder of musicians The Internet has been abuzz with Emily White, a intern at NPR, and her article about how she has never bought music and probably never will. and the response from David Lowery of Camper Van Beethov… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2012/06/26/rebuttals-to-david-lowerys-i.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 The…

  • Paid Experience

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    Link: Conscientious | Paid Experience Maybe paying something might be a nice way to support an artist whose work one has enjoyed, mostly for free, for such a long time? Because, let’s face it, even though the Grover Norquists of the world would deny this, there is more to this issue than just money. There…

  • L’Affaire de Emily White

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    L’Affaire de Emily White I’ve been following with considerable interest the whole Emily White furor. The nutshell version: an NPR intern named Emily White admitted that she has more than 11,000 songs on her iPod but has only ever paid for 15 CDs. This… via The Online Photographer: http://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2012/06/salt.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+typepad%2FZSjz+%28The+Online+Photographer%29 the main thing, to me, is…

  • NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs, Almost None Paid For

    NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs, Almost None Paid For

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    NPR Intern Gets an Earful After Blogging About 11,000 Songs, Almost None Paid For Emily White writes, with chagrin: “As monumental a role as musicians and albums have played in my life, I’ve never invested money in them aside from concert tickets and T-shirts.” Some musicians have taken her to task. via Media Decoder Blog:…

  • BBC mistakenly uses image of Iraq in Syrian massacre story

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    Link: BBC mistakenly uses image of Iraq in Syrian massacre story | Poynter. “I went home at 3am and I opened the BBC page, which had a front page story about what happened in Syria, and I almost felt off from my chair,” Marco di Lauro told the Telegraph. “One of my pictures from Iraq was…

  • The Art of the Steal: Warhol Didn’t Get Away With It. Why Should Richard Prince?

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    The Art of the Steal: Warhol Didn’t Get Away With It. Why Should Richard Prince? | PDNPulse As we’ve reported in our coverage of photographer Patrick Cariou’s infringement claim against Richard Prince, Prince and his defenders argue that appropriation art does little harm to individuals from whom appropriation artists steal their raw materials. via PDNPulse:…

  • Perfect 10 sues Tumblr for copyright infringment

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    US – Econsultancy via Econsultancy: http://econsultancy.com/us/blog/9802-perfect-10-sues-tumblr-for-copyright-infringment?utm_medium=feeds&utm_source=blog

  • Morel Releases More Evidence Against AFP, Getty in Copyright Case

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    Morel Releases More Evidence Against AFP, Getty in Copyright Case | PDNPulse Photographer Daniel Morel, who had his exclusive Haiti earthquake images ripped off by Agence France-Presse and Getty more than two years ago, has released more evidence in his claim against the two wire services in his ongoing fight for justice. The new via…

  • Copyright in the 21st century

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    Link: Editorial Photographers UK Living in the digital age has meant an unprecedented exploitation of photographs writes David Hoffman