Category: Copyright

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 | Poynter.

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

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 lawsuit (h

via A Photo Editor: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/05/11/twitpic-plans-to-sell-your-images-so-it-can-profit/

New Twitpic terms of service..and they’re not good… — duckrabbit

Ooh…..bless them for letting us keep our copyright, you know, the right we already have as creators…. “You retain all…

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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

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

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, Avril Lavigne, Bad Company, Beastie Boys, Ben Harper & Relentless7, Cheap Trick, Coldplay, Foo Fighters, George Strait/Reba Mcentire/Lee Ann Womack, Gogol Bordello, Hellyeah, Jane’s Addiction, Jimmy Eat World, Janet Jackson, Jonas Brothers, Jonny Lang, Jordin Sparks, Katy Perry, KISS, Lady Gaga, Lenny Kravitz, Leonard Cohen, Linkin Park, Matchbox 20, Melissa Ethridge, MGMT, Mike Ness, Muse, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, Paula Abdul, Queens of the Stone Age, Robbie Williams, Steven Seagal, Stevie Wonder, Stone Temple Pilots, Taylor Swift, The Mars Volta, The Raconteurs, The White Stripes, Tom Jones, Tom Petty, Turbonegro.

Link: Dear Photographers, Lady Gaga Wants The Copyright On Your Work. Oh, And By The Way, So Do We » The Russian Photos Blog

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