Category: Copyright
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Insane English copyright ruling creates ownership in the idea of a photo’s composition
Insane English copyright ruling creates ownership in the idea of a photo’s composition In a bizarre ruling, an English court has ruled that in favor of a commercial poster company that argued that a photo that showed a similar (but different) scene taken by a different person in a di… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2012/01/25/insane-english-copyright-rulin.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 In…
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Getty Images fights copyright infringement ruling in French court
Link: British Journal of Photography Getty Images stands accused of intellectual property right infringement after it was successfully sued in a French court by the heiresses of iconic furniture designers
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SOPA And Photography
SOPA And Photography – A Photo Editor You have the DMCA so you don’t need SOPA (or PIPA). Like many have suggested SOPA is like banning cars because bank robbers use them to get away. Overkill basically. And, in the wrong hands, ripe for abuse. Also, there are some serious problems with the w via…
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AFP v. Morel: Both parties moving for summary judgment
British Journal of Photography Freelance photographer Daniel Morel, Agence France-Presse and Getty Images are now moving for a summary judgment in the two-year-old case
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Copyright troll Righthaven in its death throes, domain going up for auction
Copyright troll Righthaven in its death throes, domain going up for auction Copyright troll Righthaven was conceived of as a way of extorting money from websites on behalf of newspaper owners when quotations from those newspapers were posted to the web. The idea was that t… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/12/23/copyright-troll-righthaven-in.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 Righthaven is pretty much dead.…
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New Campaign To Permanently Embed Information In Digital Media
NPPA The initiative has been launched by the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) in London, the American Association of Advertising Agencies (4A’s), and the Association of National Advertisers (ANA), with the support of trade organisations representing visual arts and photography agencies. It aims to establish the practice of applying descriptions and the copyright status of…
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William Patry’s How to Fix Copyright: deftly argued, incandescent book on the evidence-free state of copyright law
Patry’s How to Fix Copyright: deftly argued, incandescent book on the evidence-free state of copyright law William Patry is no copyright radical. He’s the author of some of the major reference texts on copyright, books that most copyright lawyers would have on their bookcases, books like Patry on … via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/12/09/patrys-how-to-fix-copyri.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 Bad copyright…
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Find copyright violations of your pictures with src-img bookmarklet
dvafoto With src-img, a javascript bookmarklet that you drag to your browser’s bookmarks bar, all images on a page are overlaid with a ?¿ link, as in the screenshot at the top of this post. Clicking the ?¿ opens up a Google Image Search on the image (here’s an example from the image above, with…
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An open letter to our customers, past and future
Luma Labs — In short, the idea of a sliding camera sling isn’t an amazing new invention. It’s just a really good idea that’s been around for a while and has been iteratively developed. Neither we nor our lawyers believed that the USPTO would grant a patent for the claims related to this concept. It was…
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Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours
Wired.com Goes Creative Commons: 50 Great Images That Are Now Yours Beginning today, we’re releasing all Wired.com staff-produced photos under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC) license and making them available in high-res format on a newly launched public Flickr stream. To mark our new licensing policy, we’ve compiled this g via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/rawfile/2011/11/creative-commons/ Wired.com photographers…
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Archant pushes new rights-grabbing contract
British Journal of Photography Publishing house Archant has been accused of rights-grabbing after it introduced a new contract for photographers working on its local newspapers
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Righthaven copyright troll’s victims send in US marshals to seize its assets
Righthaven copyright troll’s victims send in US marshals to seize its assets Righthaven, the copyright trolling organization that misrepresented its title to the copyrights of many of the newspaper articles at issue in its lawsuits against website operators, is now on the b… via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/11/02/righthaven-copyright-troll-victims-send-in-us-marshals-to-seize-its-assets.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29 The US Marshals in Nevada have been authorized…
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Bob Dylan Looking Like a Copyright Infringer. Now What?
Is Bob Dylan–that champion of the poor, the tired, the oppressed–a brazen rip-off artist and infring
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The Greatest Gift You Have As A Still Photographer
The Greatest Gift You Have As A Still Photographer – A Photo Editor In the early 1950′s, LIFE Magazine decided that the pictures that were shot for them by many wonderful photographers were their property and therefore, they had the right to re-license them. The photographer’s thought otherwise, and insisted that the phot via A…
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How Google Search By Image Helps Photographers Catch Copyright Crooks
russian photos blog: All this is very bad news for photo thieves. For years they’ve heisted images with impunity: the chances of being caught were low, and if caught the default defence was “I found it on Google and didn’t know who the owner was”. But that excuse disappears with the now easily viewable metadata,…
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You Decide: Does a National Portrait Gallery Contest Trample Artists’ Rights?
You Decide: Does a National Portrait Gallery Contest Trample Artists’ Rights? | PDNPulse The National Portrait Gallery has announced a portrait competition that has stirred the outrage of at least one photographer (who told us about it) because of the rights transfer terms of the contest rules. Rights transfers in photography contests are oft via…
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Orphan Works Rears Its Ugly Head Again
Orphan Works Rears Its Ugly Head Again – A Photo Editor Uh oh, looks like orphan works is going to be one of those perennials until something is figured out. To Recap, there are books, movies, music and photography in the possession of archives and libraries where the author is unknown or cannot be found. Thes…
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Copyright Troll Righthaven Says It’s Nearing Bankruptcy
Copyright Troll Righthaven Says It’s Nearing Bankruptcy The Las Vegas copyright-trolling firm Righthaven told a Nevada federal judge Friday it might file for bankruptcy protection, or cease operations altogether. via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/righthaven-nearing-bankruptcy/ To prevent that, Righthaven is asking U.S. District Judge Philip Pro to stay his decision requiring Righthaven pay $34,000 in legal fees to…
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Freetard or visionary?
BJP: Jonathan Worth says abandoning traditional copyright in favour of Creative Commons sharing has saved his portrait business