“In an attempt to conceal my mistake I submitted false images and deleted other images. I sincerely apologize for my lapse in judgment and I take full responsibility for my actions which were mine alone,” Fairey wrote in a statement on his Web site.
Link: PDNPulse: Shepard Fairey Under Criminal Investigation, AP Reports
Cory Doctorow: Copyright may not be perfect, but when applied with common sense, it’s the best system we’ve got
via the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/jan/26/copyright-cory-doctorow
My latest Guardian column, “Copyright, companies, individuals and news: the rules of the road,” is a start on a coherent framework for a copyright system that recognizes the difference between commercial use and non-commercial use, incidental copying and unfair copying, and many of the other exceptions that copyright needs to keep from devolving into a stupid caricature of itself
When people steal my content on the internet, I get very angry. At some point, I decided to fight back. This post explains why and how.
Link: Protecting your copyright in a digital world :: Photocritic photography blog
(Click for large. Two versions of W Magazine cover featuring Demi Moore, one for the US edition, one for Korea. Note the apparent difference in the area around the hip. Comparison here.) Lawyers re…
Lawyers representing Demi Moore sent a threatening letter to Boing Boing over the holidays which demanded that we remove a post I published in November, or face legal consequences. In the referenced Boing Boing post, I published photographer Anthony Citrano’s speculation that a recent W Magazine cover image of the actress may have been crudely manipulated by magazine staff to alter her hip, and appear thinner.
Jazz great Chet Baker’s estate is suing the major record labels for releasing his music on Canadian CDs without paying compensation (a common practice in Canada, where over 300,000 songs have…
Reader’s Digest Publishing in Australia has a very ugly new contract that they’d like photographers to sign. I’m not sure if they are a franchise of the American Reader’s Digest, with some type of content sharing deal, or if they…
Reader’s Digest Publishing in Australia has a very ugly new contract that they’d like photographers to sign.
The Associated Press, a organization with so little respect for fair use that they expect you to pay for a license to quote as little as five words from its articles, describes how it relied on fai…
A report published this week by the American Society of Media Photographers examines the terms of service (TOS) for Facebook, Photobucket, Flickr, MySpace, YouTube and Twitter.
Link: PDNPulse: Warning: Facebook and MySpace Strip Photo Copyright Data
Toyota U.S.A. has removed a photo feature from one of its Web sites and apologized to Flickr photographers whose images appeared on the site without their permission.
Link: PDNPulse: Toyota Apologizes For Using Flickr Photos In SUV Ad
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concern…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/11/03/secret-copyright-tre.html
The internet chapter of the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, a secret copyright treaty whose text Obama’s administration refused to disclose due to “national security” concerns, has leaked. It’s bad.
Link: Shepard Fairey Admits Lying in Lawsuit:
Fairey’s lawyers intend to quit representing him, the AP’s lawyer says.
Pablo Picasso once said, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” But Wall Street Journal illustrator Noli Novak says Spanish artist Jose Maria Cano engaged in outright plagiarism in producing a large painting that meticulously duplicates Novak‘s stipple
via WIRED: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/novak/
Wall Street Journal illustrator Noli Novak says Spanish artist Jose Maria Cano engaged in outright plagiarism in producing a large painting that meticulously duplicates Novak’s stipple portrait of President Barack Obama, including the surrounding text that ran on the front page of the Journal last year.
Link: PDNPulse: Magazine: Contacting Photographers is Too Complicated:
London-based pro photographer Ben Roberts recently had one of his images published in GUP, a photo magazine based in The Netherlands.
As of tonight, the issue is still not entirely resolved. Although the IOC seems much more diplomatic at this point than they did in the harsh C&D letter that they originally sent Giles, they still seem to be insisting that he change the license on his photos to all rights reserved.
Jordan sez, “The IOC, believing that it owns the photos in your shoebox, sent a takedown notice to Richard Giles, AWIA member and rather good photographer. I took notice, as we in Vancouver a…
via Boing Boing: http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/07/olympic-commitee-cla.html
In Ed Kashi’s new book, THREE, images from his 30 years as a top documentary photographer are combined into triptychs that consciously abandon the idea of context or traditional narrative. Some of those triptychs will be part of a show opening tomorrow at FiftyCrows gallery in San Francisco (founded by liveBooks CEO Andy Patrick), so I thought this would be a good time to talk to Ed about the project. I love the book (that’s my copy getting flipped through) and find his words inspirational. Hope you do too.
PDNPulse: Mystery: Who Asked Flickr to Delete the Obama Joker?:
If we rule out Time and DC Comics (both owned by Time Warner), and Platon, who else could have a reasonable copyright claim over Alkhateeb’s image? If someone with no credible case for copyright ownership submitted a takedown request, shouldn’t Flickr have rejected the claim?
CLICK NOTE: It’s almost too much. A Rene Burri rip-off being promoted on Shepard’s site for only $100 per print. I love you Shepard, but this print is basically like someone took the original negative and printed it on high-contrast paper. The money should go to the photographer, Magnum’s Rene Burri.
El Che – Obey Giant:
My friend Ernesto Yerena did this awesome portrait of Che Guevara. He created an original mixed media painting and then made screen prints in 2 color ways based on the art. They look great in person.
-Shepard