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 an online commenter it wrongly sued for infringement.
Jonathan Worth says abandoning traditional copyright in favour of Creative Commons sharing has saved his portrait business
The great experiment in copyright trolling that is Righthaven appears to be nearing an end. Righthaven, which was founded more than a year ago to monetize print news content through copyright infringement lawsuits, has suffered a myriad of courtroom setba
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/09/righthaven-on-life-support/all/1
The great experiment in copyright trolling that is Righthaven appears to be nearing an end.
As the snippet on the EPUK news bulletin put it: “Hargreaves ignored our proposals re moral rights, denying us basic…
via duckrabbit: http://duckrabbit.info/blog/2011/09/photographers-fight-for-your-moral-rights-that-means-you/
“Hargreaves ignored our proposals re moral rights, denying us basic protection against our work being orphaned. It’s as if there was a law allowing you to take any car without a number plate but no law preventing number plate removal.”
Why is that @mailonline folks think that the theft of copyrighted material is ethical and acceptable?” he tweeted.
This new book titled Free Ride by Robert Levine a former features editor for Wired looks to be a must read for content creators. The book is currently available in the UK and goes on sale in the US onOctober 25th. Copyhype has a review of the book (here).
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/08/26/free-ride-how-technology-companies-are-killing-the-culture-business/
As much as technology pioneers want us to believe that information wants to be free and that free is the “The Future of a Radical Price” the bottom line here is someone wants to make a buck that someone else is currently making
A federal district court judge has dismissed photographer Janine Gordon’s suit against photographer Ryan McGinley, and also offered a useful refresher course on the basics of copyright law. In June, Gordon sued McGinley and his galleries, alleging that th
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/08/judge-dismisses-copyright-suit-against-ryan-mcginley-as-“wasteful”.html
Gordon’s “apparent theory of infringement would assert copyright interests in virtually any figure with outstretched arms, any interracial kiss, or any nude torso,” the judge wrote. “Such a conception of copyright law has no basis in statute, case law, or common sense.”
The relationship between photographic authorship and Google Street View authorship could probably be compared to the relationship between musicians who compose and record music and artists who remix already recorded music.
The National Union of Journalists’ freelance organiser has attacked BBC’s justifications for using, without authorisation, images posted on Twitter
Everyone’s favorite copyright troll Righthaven has once again had its ass handed to it. The company, which was spun out of a Nevada newspaper, sublicenses the right to sue people from copyrig…
via Boing Boing: http://boingboing.net/2011/08/16/copyright-troll-handed-ass-again-tries-saddest-trick-ever-to-get-out-of-paying-its-victims-legal-bills.html
Righthaven then argued that it shouldn’t have to pay the defendants’ attorney fees because it didn’t have standing to sue, so the court didn’t have standing to order it to pay. The judge laughed and laughed and laughed. And told them to cough up $34,045.50
Bloggers and photographers are calling on the BBC to rethink its use of Twitter images during its news broadcasts after failing to credit copyright owners
The Government’s proposed reforms of intellectual property are criticised by the British Photographic Council, which says creators should have an unwaivable right to be identified as author of their works.
At the seminar “Copyright: Know It or Blow It” conducted at the Outdoor Photo Expo, held August 4-5 in Salt Lake City, agent Debra Weiss and photographer and former stock agent Patrick Donehue offered advice on how photographers can protect the copyright
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/08/outdoor-photo-expo-understanding-copyright-protection.html
At the seminar “Copyright: Know It or Blow It” conducted at the Outdoor Photo Expo, held August 4-5 in Salt Lake City, agent Debra Weiss and photographer and former stock agent Patrick Donehue offered advice on how photographers can protect the copyright on their images – and also how to avoid being held liable for infringing on another artist’s work.
As a vocal advocate of copyright reform, he’s got clear ideas about how copyright could work to the benefit of creators and publishers.
via The Georgia Straight: http://www.straight.com/article-415146/vancouver/interview-siggraph-2011-keynote-speaker-cory-doctorow-copyright-reform
Ironically, the one thing that none of these proposals that we’re working on will do is pay artists. But what we are setting up is a situation is one in which universal surveillance and control become part of the fabric of the Internet and of the devices that we use, and how bad that’s going to be not just for us as artists but as citizens and as parents and as people in the world.
Some call PLUS “the largest evolutionary step for the imaging industry since the internet arrived”, while others remain wary of yet another system designed to simplify image licensing. David Hoffman, a moderator on the Editorial Photographers UK and Ireland website and an advocate for the system in the UK, explains why he thinks it is so important professional photographers sign up for the PLUS registry.
You can't forget those adorable self-portraits taken by a group of vain monkeys on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The shots are amazing, so amazing that a controversy is brewing over their copyright.
via Gizmodo: http://gizmodo.com/5820714/if-a-monkey-steals-your-camera-who-owns-the-photos
So who in this chain owns the rights to these photos? Is it the monkeys who took the pictures? The man who owns the camera but didn’t take the photos? Or the news agency that merely sent them out? This issue has not been ironed out, but it could be soon.
I don’t want to get on a jag about copyright infringement here, but a lawsuit filed this week against Ryan McGinley illustrates how copyright can potentially impinge artist’s creative expression if taken too far. Rachel Corbett of ArtNet.com writes: Artis
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/07/13/can-copyright-be-bad-for-photography/
I don’t want to get on a jag about copyright infringement here, but a lawsuit filed this week against Ryan McGinley illustrates how copyright can potentially impinge artist’s creative expression if taken too far.
A few weeks ago there was news that Jay Maisel had successfully defended his copyright against someone claiming “transformation” by turning his original Miles Davis cover photograph into pixel art. It was another victory for photographers in the fight ove
via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/07/12/jay-maisel-defends-his-copyright-and-is-attacked-for-it-online/
The crazy thing about the whole debacle is that he licensed all the cover songs from Miles Davis’s publisher but didn’t do the same with the image. He didn’t think he would have any issues copying the images. That’s because you don’t mess with the music industry when it comes to copyright, now maybe the same will be said to photographers thanks to Jay Maisel.
The nation’s major internet service providers, at the urging of Hollywood and the major record labels, have agreed to disrupt internet access for online copyright scofflaws. The deal, almost three years in the making, was announced early Thursday, and inc
The nation’s major internet service providers, at the urging of Hollywood and the major record labels, have agreed to disrupt internet access for online copyright scofflaws.