Category: Copyright
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Twitpic changes reveal conflict as users, journalists, photo sharing services have competing goals
What’s needed is a system in which none of these three parties — users, journalists or the service — wields too much power over the other two, and one in which each knows exactly what rights they and others have. Link: Twitpic changes reveal conflict as users, journalists, photo sharing services have competing goals |…
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Photographers Respond to Lady Gaga's New Copyright Demands | Rolling Stone Music
Photographers Respond to Lady Gaga’s New Copyright Demands Gaga’s strict release form gives her the rights to all photos taken at her concerts via Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/photographers-respond-to-lady-gagas-new-copyright-demands-20110307 Gaga’s strict release form gives her the rights to all photos taken at her concerts
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All Your Pics Are Belong to Us
All Your Pics Are Belong to Us: at image hosting services, Terms and Conditions always apply Smartphone apps make it trivial to snap a photo, upload it to a host, and post a link to Twitter, sometimes in a single step. But by storing a photo on a hosting service to display via Twitter and…
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Photo agency's CEO addresses TwitPic controversy [update]
TwitPic is claiming a “worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, sublicenseable and transferable license” on all images uploaded to the service, as the firm signs a deal with celebrity photo agency WENN Link: Photo agency’s CEO addresses TwitPic controversy [update] – British Journal of Photography
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TwitPic Plans To Sell Your Images So It Can Profit
TwitPic Plans To Sell Your Images So It Can Profit – A Photo Editor A story in TechCrunch EU highlights a blowup over the ToS (Terms of Service) of Twitpic the photo sharing app for Twitter that many people use to share breaking news images from their phone–images like Daniel Morel’s Haiti images and subsequent…
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New Twitpic terms of service..and they’re not good…
Ooh…..bless them for letting us keep our copyright, you know, the right we already have as creators…
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AFP v. Morel trial date set
CNN is the latest news organisation to settle its case against Daniel Morel, as the freelance photographer is set to face Agence France Presse and Getty Images in court this summer, BJP can confirm Link: AFP v. Morel trial date set – British Journal of Photography
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Magazine Claims Accurate Photos Are Too Expensive
Magazine Claims Accurate Photos Are Too Expensive – A Photo Editor Horrifying vegans everywhere it was recently uncovered that VegNews Magazine has been using stock pictures of meat and passing them off as vegan dishes. Quarrygirl.com a vegan blog with the tag line “meat is murder” posted the side-by-side comparisons (he via A Photo Editor:…
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A few thoughts on Cariou vs. Prince
A few days ago, US District Judge Deborah A. Batts ruled that Richard Prince had violated Patrick Cariou’s copyright when using some of the images from the Yes Rasta book to produce Canal Zone. Much has since been written about this ruling, here are a few of the reactions/takes: Rob Haggart/A Photo Editor, Ed Winkleman,…
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Federal Judge Rejects Google Settlement. Should Photographers Care?
Federal Judge Rejects Google Settlement. Should Photographers Care? | PDNPulse In a word, Yes. The federal court judge who rejected the proposed settlement agreement between Google and a consortium of authors and publishers on Tuesday said the agreement was not “fair, adequate or reasonable.” The losers would have been many copyrigh via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/03/federal-judge-rejects-google-settlement-should-photographers-care.html In…
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Richard Prince Loses Fair Use Argument
Richard Prince Loses Fair Use Argument – A Photo Editor In December of 2008 photographer Patrick Cariou filed suit against Ricard Prince, Gagosian Gallery, Lawrence Gagosian and Rizzoli International Publications in federal district court (here). The suit came about after Prince appropriated 28 images from Pat via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/03/19/richard-prince-loses-fair-use-argument/ this is quite a…
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AP Settles Remaining Lawsuits Over ‘Hope’ Image
AP Settles Remaining Lawsuits Over ‘Hope’ Image | PDNPulse The Associated Press says it has settled its copyright infringement claim against Obey Clothing and three of its big retail customers–Nordstrom’s, Urban Outfitters, and Zumiez Inc.–for sale and distributions of merchandise bearing the iconic ‘Hope’ image via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/03/ap-settles-remaining-lawsuits-over-hope-image.html “This settlement marks the final resolution of…
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Dear Photographers, Lady Gaga Wants The Copyright On Your Work. Oh, And By The Way, So Do We » The Russian Photos Blog
In any case La Gaga’s grab, horrible though it is, isn’t anything like as cutting edge as TBD make out. Bands, their agents and promoters have been foisting predatory contracts on photographers for quite some time. Here’s a list of just some acts who have presented such contracts in the recent past: Aaron Neville, Aerosmith,…
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PDN Pulse » Fame Monster Gobbling Up Photographers’ Copyrights
Fame Monster Gobbling Up Photographers’ Copyrights | PDNPulse Lady Gaga is demanding that some photographers transfer all their copyrights to images they make of her as a condition for photographing her concerts, according to TBD, a local news site serving the Washington, DC area. The site says Jay Westcott, a TBD p via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/03/fame-monster-gobbling-photographers-copyrights.html…
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PDN Pulse » Fair Fee for Photo of Arizona Shooting Victim? Or Price Gouging?
Fair Fee for Photo of Arizona Shooting Victim? Or Price Gouging? | PDNPulse The Arizona Republic is reporting that Tucson photographer Jon Wolf and his attorney, Ed Greenberg of New York, demanded $125,000 from the newspaper’s owner for unauthorized use of Wolf’s image of Chrstina-Taylor Green. Green was the nine-year-old girl ki via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/02/fair-fee-for-arizona-shooting-victim-photo-or-price-gouging.html…
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Photographer David LaChapelle Sues Rihanna – NYTimes.com
Photographer David LaChapelle Sues Rihanna Though he describes himself as a good friend of hers, the fashion and art photographer David LaChappelle claims in a suit filed Monday in federal court in Manhattan that the pop star Rihanna helped herself to too many of the images in the recently release via ArtsBeat: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/15/photographer-david-lachappelle-sues-rihanna/ The suit,…
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PDN Pulse » Public Outcry Stalls Lawsuit Over Portraits of Tucson Shooting Victim
Public Outcry Stalls Lawsuit Over Portraits of Tucson Shooting Victim | PDNPulse Public criticism and a stinging statement from the family of a nine-year-old girl killed during the shootings in Tucson last month have led a portrait photographer to halt a copyright lawsuit–at least for now–against various media outlets. The photographe via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.com/2011/02/public-outcry-stalls-lawsuit-over-portraits-of-tucson-shooting-victim.html Last…
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Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash sued for copyright infringement over Run DMC image – Boing Boing
Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash sued for copyright infringement over Run DMC image Above Top: Photo of Run DMC, taken by Glen E. Friedman Above Bottom: Invitation Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash used for his debut exhibition ‘Life Is Beautiful’ Earlier this month I … via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/01/26/thierry-guetta-aka-m.html Earlier this month I noted that…
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Photographer accuses Daily Mail of copyright infringement – British Journal of Photography
The Daily Mail has been, for the fifth time in less than a year, accused of using a photographer’s images without authorisation, BJP has learnt. Link: Photographer accuses Daily Mail of copyright infringement – British Journal of Photography