Ten photojournalists have been awarded $1,000 each for the Yunghi Kim grant—a grant meant to bring awareness of the importance of copyright registration.
via PDNPulse: http://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2016/12/16476.html
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.
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
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 …
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/12/all-your-pics-are-be.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing/iBag
I’ve taken a set of scissors to collect the copyright section of the terms of service for many popular services below to compare. Many have quite similar language to TwitPic; others foreswear all rights.
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
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/
“The new licensing deal ensures that users retain the copyright but by uploading photos service, the company is able to exploit the photos for commercial gain.”
Ooh…..bless them for letting us keep our copyright, you know, the right we already have as creators…. “You retain all…
Ooh…..bless them for letting us keep our copyright, you know, the right we already have as creators….
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
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: http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2011/04/25/magazine-claims-accurate-photos-are-too-expensive/
Horrifying vegans everywhere it was recently uncovered that VegNews Magazine has been using stock pictures of meat and passing them off as vegan dishes
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, Donn Zaretsky, Paddy Johnson. In a nutshell, photographers for the most parts are giddy that Prince lost, whereas the non-photo art world is appalled by the ruling
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 a word, Yes.
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 victory for photographers and the judgment is fascinating reading for fair use buffs (download it here), What I really found interesting is how badly most people (myself included) interpret the transformation part of appropriating works.
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 the disputes over our rights in the AP’s photograph of Barack Obama,” AP president and CEO Tom Curley said
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.
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
Lady Gaga is demanding that some photographers transfer all their copyrights to images they make of her as a condition for photographing her concerts
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
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.
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, which asks for at least $1 million in damages, argues that the video is “directly derived from and substantially similar to” photographs he has created and published that show, among other things, a dominatrix walking a chained man on a leash, a woman in latex headgear and another woman (Lady Gaga, to be precise) wearing only screaming headlines.
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 Friday, Tucson photographer Jon Wolf was poised to file a copyright claim against more than a dozen major media outlets for unauthorized use of his portraits of Christina-Taylor Green. But yesterday he wrote on his blog that because of a community outcry, “I have chosen to halt filing legal action in the hopes of reaching negotiated settlements with those that have used this image.”