Category: Copyright

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

The biggest threat remains the gradual demise of copyright and our ability to license our images. Since the US Constitution gave creators the power of copyright, culture has flourished as artists have been able to feed their families while creating, books, paintings, photography, etc. A creative life was sustainable. The system worked beautifully for two centuries and everyone in society benefited.

Link: DOUG MENUEZ 2.0: GO FAST, DON’T CRASH

Flickrtwittertwitpic, Plixi etc — duckrabbit

Hello. If you use Plixi to upload pics to twitter from now on your pics can be sold on without…

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The reality is that the Internet loves a riot, and any old riot will do: last week Cooks Resource Roast just happened to be the best show in town.

Link: Cooking Up A Copyright Storm » The Russian Photos Blog

In a move that is likely to impact photographers, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced that he will ask his government to review the country’s copyright law to allow for the “greater use of copyright material without the owner’s permission”

Link: Government to review UK’s copyright law – British Journal of Photography

Without getting into the enforceability of this particular clause, let’s break this down into plain English: if you photograph the band and the band wants your pictures, you agree to turn them over. For free. For whatever use they see fit. Without limitation.

Now that’s not very Rock ‘n’ Roll, is it

Link: Legal Left, Meet Creative Right -Rock n Roll | Luceo Images

The AFP stand point of view illustrates the obsolescence of a model, the blindness of few disillusioned veterans, who try to stop any kind of progress. Things cannot be like they were at the last century, in an analog world; they eventually will evolve, with or without their consent. Standing against Morel, Harrington and Leroy have very conveniently adopted a legal posture, but by avoiding questioning the rules and by refusing to even consider the new ways photographers actually work, they’ve disconnected themselves from the future.

Link: Haiti Schism, Morel vs. AFP | bulb by Gerald Holubowicz

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Creative Commons has unveiled it’s Public Domain Mark, a tool to clearly label images that are free of known copyright restrictions.

Link: Editorial Photographers UK | Public Domain Mark Launches