Category: Copyright
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Google’s New Licensable Images Features Are Officially Out! – PhotoShelter Blog
Google’s New Licensable Images Features Are Officially Out! – PhotoShelter Blog Google releases new licensable images features to help photographers looking to improve the discovery of their content and earn more. via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/08/google-licensable-images-features-for-photographers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29 Have you heard the news? Google Images released their new licensable images features earlier today, which will help photographers looking…
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Photographer Wins Lawsuit Against BuzzFeed, Sets Major DMCA Precedent
Photographer Wins Lawsuit Against BuzzFeed, Sets Major DMCA Precedent Last week, photographer Gregory Mango won an important lawsuit against online publication BuzzFeed; it’s important, not because of the payout involved, via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/08/18/photographer-wins-lawsuit-against-buzzfeed-sets-major-dmca-precedent/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Last week, photographer Gregory Mango won an important lawsuit against online publication BuzzFeed; it’s important, not because of the payout involved, but…
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Volvo Says All Public Instagram Photos are Fair Game in New Court Filing
Volvo Says All Public Instagram Photos are Fair Game in New Court Filing A couple of months ago, automotive photographer Jack Schroeder and model Britni Sumida filed a lawsuit against car maker Volvo, accusing them of “willful via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/08/12/volvo-says-all-public-instagram-photos-are-fair-game-in-new-court-filing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 A couple of months ago, automotive photographer Jack Schroeder and model Britni Sumida filed a…
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This is How Adobe’s Upcoming Photo ‘Authenticity’ System Will Work
This is How Adobe’s Upcoming Photo ‘Authenticity’ System Will Work Almost 9 months after announcing the so-called Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) for preventing image theft and manipulation online, Adobe has finally via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/08/04/this-is-how-adobes-upcoming-photo-authenticity-system-will-work/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Almost 9 months after announcing the so-called Content Authenticity Initiative (CAI) for preventing image theft and manipulation online, Adobe has finally…
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Truthmark is a photography database aiming to stop misuse in fake news
Truthmark is a photography database aiming to stop misuse in fake news Initiated by Canon with agency Uncle Grey Copenhagen, it allows photographers to upload images together with the stories and contexts behind them, aiming to curtail misappropriation. Link: https://www.itsnicethat.com/news/truthmark-photo-database-canon-uncle-grey-copenhagen-photography-280720?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+itsnicethat%2FSlXC+%28It%27s+Nice+That%29 Initiated by Canon with agency Uncle Grey Copenhagen, it allows photographers to upload images together…
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Instagram Says You Need Permission to Embed Someone’s Public Photos
Instagram Says You Need Permission to Embed Someone’s Public Photos Instagram just released a bombshell statement about copyright infringement. In response to recent developments in a lawsuit between a pro photographer and via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/06/05/instagram-says-you-need-permission-to-embed-someones-public-photos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Instagram just released a bombshell statement about copyright infringement. In response to recent developments in a lawsuit between a pro…
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Instagram says it does not provide users of its embedding API a copyright license to display embedded images on other websites
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2020/06/instagram-just-threw-users-of-its-embedding-api-under-the-bus/ By stating outright that users of its embedding feature don’t get licenses from Instagram to display photos, Instagram is preventing future defendants from using Mashable’s argument. It will be hard for Newsweek to convince a judge that it had a sublicense from Instagram when Instagram has explicitly claimed the opposite.
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Court Rules Your Instagram Photos Can Be Embedded Against Your Wishes
Court Rules Your Instagram Photos Can Be Embedded Against Your Wishes A federal court has tossed a photographer’s claim of copyright infringement against a major online publication that embedded her Instagram photo against via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/04/15/court-rules-your-instagram-photos-can-be-embedded-against-your-wishes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 A federal court has tossed a photographer’s claim of copyright infringement against a major online publication that embedded her…
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Instagram’s Moral Imperative – PhotoShelter Blog
Instagram’s Moral Imperative – PhotoShelter Blog The past few years have made it abundantly clear that platforms hold disproportionate power in the online sphere – from Uber to Grubhub to Amazon. Online success is predicated on building both utility as well as a critical mass of users, and for that, pla via PhotoShelter Blog: https://blog.photoshelter.com/2020/04/instagrams-moral-imperative/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PhotoshelterBlog+%28PhotoShelter+Blog%29…
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The Supreme Court Just Decided that States Cannot be Sued for Copyright Infringement
The Supreme Court Just Decided that States Cannot be Sued for Copyright Infringement Earlier today, the Supreme Court of the United States dealt a major blow to photographer’s copyright protections when it declared that states cannot be via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2020/03/23/the-supreme-court-just-decided-that-states-cannot-be-sued-for-copyright-infringement/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 The opinion came down as part of a writ of certiorari regarding the case of…
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PDNPulse: ASMP New York's New Rallying Cry
Link: What’s even worse, it appears that the IOC is trying to argue with Giles that even using the *word* Olympics in his photostream is somehow some sort of violation.
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PDNPulse: AP Thinks Shepard Fairey Was Lying The Whole Time
Link: I haven’t done scientific testing. But basically I’d wager that you can expect a 2 stop improvement in terms of low light performance/image quality with the 1D MKIV relative to the 5D MKII.
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PDNPulse: Photographer Busts Al Gore's TV Company for Photo Rip-Off
Link: San Francisco photographer Ken Light won a small claims judgment of $588
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Editorial Photographers UK | Mandelson's Digital Economy Bill: A Future Fair For Photographers?
Link: As Business Secretary Lord Mandelson’s Digital Economy Bill moves to the report stage, and the COPYRIGHT ACTION web site gets 60,000 page views from anxious photographers, EPUK reveals how the bill’s clause on orphan works spells an uncertain future for photographers and publishers alike.
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PDNPulse: Whitney Biennial Artist Copies Harry Benson’s Michael Jackson Pic
Link: Benson contacted O’Grady, who lives in New York, to question her unauthorized use of his image. According to Benson, she told him she is “a conceptual artist.” “What it is,” says Benson, “is conceptual plagiarism.”
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PDNPulse: Al Gore TV Challenges An Inconvenient Photographer
Link: Ken Light, the San Francisco photographer who won a judgment in February against Al Gore’s cable TV network for unauthorized use of an image, now has to fight to defend his rights again.
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Do You Register Your Images with the Copyright Office? at Strictly Business
Link: Only a small percentage of photographers register their work with the copyright office. ASMP wants that to change.
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Agence France Presse's slap to photographers – 1854
Link: On Monday, Agence France Presse filed a complaint in the United States District Court Southern District of New York against Haiti-based photographer Daniel Morel. Agence France Presse claims Morel engaged in an “antagonistic assertion of rights” after the photographer objected to the use by AFP of images he posted online of the Haitian earthquake…