Category: Copyright
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College Football Media Policy Draws Protest Letter
College Football Media Policy Draws Protest Letter – PDN: The SEC also says it “shall have the right to purchase prints of any published photographs… at the most favorable financial terms offered to third parties… and Bearer hereby grants the SEC and its member institutions a license at no additional charge to use the photographs…
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PDNPulse: Twitter Photographer Asks Sky News to Pay Up
PDNPulse: Twitter Photographer Asks Sky News to Pay Up: Neale told OJB that his experience shows the dangers of social media for citizen journalists. We think it also illuminates a new dynamic that’s evolving in news coverage. Social media users can quickly share other people’s photos and videos without assuming any risk. Not so with…
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AP Pulls Burk Uzzle Woodstock Photo From Archive
PDNPulse: AP Pulls Burk Uzzle Woodstock Photo From Archive
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Petition the Guardian’s rights grab
Petition the Guardian’s rights grab | dvafoto: On July 28, 2009, the Guardian announced new contractual terms soon to be forced upon contributing freelance photographers.
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EFF criticizes Burning Man for limiting attendees' fair use rights
EFF criticizes Burning Man for limiting attendees’ fair use rights – Boing Boing
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The AP Will Sell You a "License" to Words It Doesn't Own
The Laboratorium: The AP Will Sell You a “License” to Words It Doesn’t Own: I paid $12 for this “license.” Those words don’t even come from the article they charged me 46 cents a word to quote from (and that’s with the educational discount). No, they’re from Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Isaac McPherson, in which…
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Associated Press claims to have discovered magic anti-news-copying beans – Boing Boing
Associated Press claims to have discovered magic anti-news-copying beans – Boing Boing: A lot of copyfighters were mystified by the Associated Press’s recent announcement (complete with a bonkers diagram straight off a bottle of Dr. Bronner’s) that they had spent millions of dollars on a DRM system for news that would limit how you could…
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A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web
A.P. Cracks Down on Unpaid Use of Articles on Web – NYTimes.com
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Sussex cops try to suppress publication of damning traffic-cam photos by claiming copyright
Sussex cops try to suppress publication of damning traffic-cam photos by claiming copyright – Boing Boing: The Sussex, England police are trying to suppress publication of images from speed cameras — images that show technical shortcomings in the cameras — by claiming that they are copyrighted.
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Concert Photographers Asked To Transfer Copyright To Jane’s Addiction
A Photo Editor – Concert Photographers Asked To Transfer Copyright To Jane’s Addiction: Filed under WTF? I’m told some photographers are asked to sign this document and some are not.
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Google Images Mislabels Many Copyrighted Pictures
PDNPulse: Google Images Mislabels Many Copyrighted Pictures: How could this happen? Apparently, Google assumes images are copyrighted unless they are identified with a Creative Commons or GNU Free Documentation license, or are labeled as being in the public domain. The system relies on Internet users to properly identify the status of the images they publish.…
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Mannie Garcia Seeks Intervention in AP v. Shepard Fairey
A Photo Editor – Mannie Garcia Seeks Intervention in AP v. Shepard Fairey
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The Click and Copyright
Hey, this is Trent. Let’s talk. I just got this short, anonymous e-mail: Bet if someone took some of your images you’d cry foul. It’s a very valid topic, and I thank whoever sent it. No one likes to get ripped off. When I find my photos being used without my permission, I have to…
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Creative Commons comes to Google Image Search
Creative Commons comes to Google Image Search – Boing Boing: Google officially launched the ability to filter search results using Creative Commons licenses inside their Image Search tool
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Amazon Kindle contract sucks
Amazon Kindle contract sucks – Boing Boing: Publishing contracts are generally kind of bogus to begin with, but this is a real pinnacle of bogosity.
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European Publishers Call on E.U. to Protect Copyright
European Publishers Call on E.U. to Protect Copyright – NYTimes.com: The publishers said widespread use of their work by online news aggregators and other Web sites was undermining their efforts to develop an online business models at a time when readers and advertisers are defecting from newspapers and magazines.
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A COPYRIGHT MANIFESTO: REALITY VS. BULLSHIT
DOUG MENUEZ 2.0: GO FAST, DON’T CRASH: So let’s settle the question of whether using a photograph or text or music outside of “fair use” without permission is stealing. It is. Period. Look it up. It’s illegal. Whether you think it’s morally ok to steal is your problem and karma. If you want to roll through stop…
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Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books
Malcolm Gladwell reviews Free by Chris Anderson: Books: The New Yorker: Anderson is very good at paragraphs like this—with its reassuring arc from “bloodbath” to “salvation.” His advice is pithy, his tone uncompromising, and his subject matter perfectly timed for a moment when old-line content providers are desperate for answers. That said, it is not…
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News and Information on the Google Book Settlement
Photo Attorney: Many photographers are also authors. If you published a book before January 5, 2009, your work may be subject to a class action lawsuit brought by authors and publishers, claiming that Google has violated their copyrights by scanning their books, creating an electronic database, and displaying short excerpts without the permission of the…