It must be deeply comforting for JF Leroy that he has been joined in his attack on Daniel Morel by…
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It must be deeply comforting for JF Leroy that he has been joined in his attack on Daniel Morel by John Harrington
Morel, and many like him, use social media as a means to inform the world. Morel posted pictures on Twitter/Twitpic for the world to see. AFP does not beleive that Twitter/Twitpic can do that properly. They still think that, in order for the world to see these images, they had to go on the AFP wire.
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What did Agence France Presse know when it distributed without permission freelance photographer Daniel Morel’s images? What was Getty Images’ role? And why isn’t TwitPic in court?
Link: AFP v. Morel: The Important Questions – British Journal of Photography
Tonight I have received a copy of the transcript of the court proceeding in the case of AFP, Getty, CNN and…
It’s no exaggeration to say that the arguments presented in court mean that this case, if it goes AFP’s way, could affect all photographers who use the web.
Lara Jade Coton was awarded almost $130,000 damages against Burge and his company TVX after a Florida court found that Coton – who generally goes by her professional name of Lara Jade – had suffered personal and professional humiliation, harm to her career and damage to her physical health as a result of his actions.
Link: Brit Photographer Screws Texas Pornographer » The Russian Photos Blog
UPDATE Jean Francois Leroy has emailed duckrabbit to say he will be responding within the next 48 hours. Some of…
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But Morel didn’t post any pictures on Twitter. Nobody ever has, because – as most 10-year-olds could explain to the NPPA – Twitter is a text message system: it can’t host pictures. Morel’s pictures were posted to Twitpic, an entirely separate legal entity from Twitter, with entirely different terms and conditions; therefore it is the Twitpic terms that are applicable in the Morel case. That’s the kind of very basic legal point one might expect a lawyer to notice.
Jean-François Leroy has been forced to weigh in, one more time, on the legal case pitting Agence France Presse against Daniel Morel, after he refused to support the freelance photographer
Link: AFP v. Morel: The debate rages on – British Journal of Photography
Earlier this month, a concerted denial of service attack by 4chan members against the UK law firm ACS:Law resulted in the disclosure of an enormous trove of internal emails from the firm. The mail …
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The best analysis of the ACS emails to date comes from this long, investigative piece by Ars Technica’s Nate Anderson, who assembles the huge corpus of emails into a coherent narrative explaining how ACS operates, with emphasis on the unethical behavior that made it the most hated law firm in the UK. If you only read one story about “anti-piracy” operations, read this one.
Thank you for your response to my post yesterday critisizing the way way certain photo agencies seem content to abuse…
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Thank you for your response to my post yesterday critisizing the way way certain photo agencies seem content to abuse the rights of indvidual photographers. I am sorry that we misunderstood you. Might that have something to do with upholding a logic that many people find is at odds with your self stated remit of ‘defending professional photographers’?
Yesterday duckrabbit published a post criticizing the photo industry for selling a set of pictures of the aftermath of the Haitian Earthquake…
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Yesterday duckrabbit published a post criticizing the photo industry for selling a set of pictures of the aftermath of the Haitian Earthquake but refusing to compensate the photographer because he had shared them on a twitpic. Much of my criticism was aimed at JF Leroy, the Director of Visa Pour L’Image (a photojournalism festival). You can read the full post here. Today we are printing Leroy’s response in full
The case that opens today according to NPPA: In a case that could set precedent in online copyright legislation and…
Reinhard Krause has spent much of his photojournalism career in some of the most tumultuous and critical places on the planet — including North Korea, Kosovo, Tibet and, most recently, the flooded regions of Pakistan. Beginning in November, all the hot spots in the world will constitute his beat, as the global pictures editor of Reuters, leading 400 staff and freelance photographers.
A Las Vegas company established to sue bloggers who clip news content is expanding its operations to a second newspaper chain. Righthaven LLC has struck a deal with Arkansas-based WEHCO Media to expand its copyright litigation campaign, in which bloggers
Righthaven LLC has struck a deal with Arkansas-based WEHCO Media to expand its copyright litigation campaign, in which bloggers and aggregators across the country are being sued on allegations of infringement.
The photographer who took a picture that the Barack Obama “HOPE” image was based on dropped his claim that he owns the copyright to the photograph.
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/21/us/21brfs-PHOTOGRAPHER_BRF.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
I’ve used a number of other brands of 35mm f/2’s and 35mm f/1.4’s and reviewed old images for comparison while testing Leica’s new model, and can definitely say this is the best 35mm focal length lens I’ve tested, period.
The FBI ordered wikipedia to remove its seal from the article there about the bureau. It threatened to litigate. Unfortunately for the FBI, the law it cited is the one that forbids making counterfe…
Henri Cartier-Bresson… Garry Winogrand… Helen Levitt… Robert Frank… André Kértész… William Klein… Jacques Henri Lartigue… Marc Riboud… Raymond Depardon… Elliot Erwitt… Joel Meyerowitz…
I started this list as I thought of who all the great street photographers might be. But I stopped early, realizing that in photojournalism (or any of its other pseudonyms) we all photograph life in the street.
Now comes another case in which a photographer has accused AFP of stripping his credit off an image (shown here) that happens to show Barack Obama’s Chicago residence, and distributing the photo to third parties without the permission.
The title of this Recording Industry vs The People post says it all, really: “Ha ha ha ha ha. RIAA paid its lawyers more than $16,000,000 in 2008 to recover only $391,000!!!”: If the av…
I’m excited to announce the Conscientious Portfolio Competition 2010, the second of its kind (after a great start last year). As before, the winner(s) will have their work featured here on this website, in the form of an extended conversation/interview. This year, two guest judges, Elisabeth Biondi (New Yorker magazine) and Susanna Brown (Victoria and Albert Museum), are joining me to pick the winner(s) – and there’s a twist.
When W00t! posted its delightful notice about being acquired by Amazon, it was picked up and re-run by blogs all over the net. Not wanting to miss out on the action, the Associated Press ran the st…
W00t! sent the AP a bill for $17.50 for the quotation
During 2009, 71% of freelance respondents said they had been asked to give copyright to their clients, and 62% said they were pressured to give clients a more extensive licence for no increase in the fee.