Category: Copyright
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A Court Victory Al Gore May Not Want to Advertise – NYTimes.com
A Court Victory Al Gore May Not Want to Advertise (Published 2010) This case pitted Mr. Gore and Current TV against Ken Light, a photojournalist and an outspoken advocate for fair compensation for journalists. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/us/23sfmetro.html The art, a photograph, belonged to a Berkeley professor, and Mr. Gore and Current TV had used it without…
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Thomas Hawk » Is Imagelogr.com Trying to Be the Largest Copyright Infringer of All Time?
via Thomas Hawk Digital Connection |: https://thomashawk.com/2010/05/is-imagelogr-com-trying-to-be-the-largest-copyright-infringer-of-all-time.html Imagelogr claims to be scraping the entire “free web” and seems to have hit Flickr especially hard, copying full-sized images of yours and mine to their own servers where they are hosting them without any attribution or links back to the original image in violation of all available…
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Insult to Injury: AFP Suing Photographer It Stole Images From
Link: It’s hard to explain a mind-blowing mess like this one, but AFP is suing a Haitian photojournalist for “antagonistic assertion of [his] rights” after it distributed his news-breaking earthquake photos all over the world without his permission.
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In Legal Trouble, Photographer Appeals for Help – PDN Pulse
Link: Seattle photographer Mike Hipple reports that he has run out of money to defend himself against a copyright infringement claim by a sculptor, and he’s now trying to raise money by selling a self-published book.
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Rob Galbraith DPI: ImageRights adds free visual search, plans compensation recovery program
Link: ImageRights, a visual search firm that assists photographers in identifying unauthorized photo usage online, has added a free service level in addition to the paid tiers they currently offer. At no charge, a photographer can upload up to 10,000 photos to ImageRights. The company will then continuously monitor news sites, popular blogs and other…
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Photography Copyright Protection: Online Resources – A Picture's Worth
Link: There are some amazing resources for photographers to learn more about protecting their copyright. We’ve taken a stab at gathering up *some* of the best resources we’ve found – mostly from industry organizations, government and nonprofits, and a few voices of wisdom in the industry.
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NPPA Endorses Artists Bill Of Rights For Photography Contests
Link: Nikon has announced the Speedlight SB-700, a new shoe-mount flash unit that incorporates a revised control layout, 24-120mm zoom range, recycle time of 2.5 seconds at full power, the ability to act as a master flash for up to two groups of wireless remote Speedlight
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Storm In A Duck Pond As Leroy Tries To Claim Morel High Ground In AFP Haiti Hijack » The Russian Photos Blog
Link: 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…
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UK Daily Mail Faces Million Dollar US Copyright Suit From Mavrix Photo » The Russian Photos Blog
Link: Can photographers win substantial compensation in a US court from a British copyright pirate? We may be about to find out, courtesy of the Daily Mail.
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Judge rejects AFP’s claim to Morel’s Haiti Twitpic photos | dvafoto
Link: A judge has ruled that Twitter and Twitpic’s licensing terms do not extend to third parties, that Morel has a valid copyright infringement claim, and that any information identifying the copyright holder (so-called “copyright management information”) must be distributed alongside copyrighted material.
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Daniel Morel, CBS settle case – British Journal of Photography
Link: Freelance photographer Daniel Morel and CBS have settled their legal fight, a couple of week after a judge issued an order that put the Haiti-based photographer in a stronger position
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Google Books Settlement Rejected
Link: Saying the deal goes “too far,” a federal judge Tuesday rejected Google’s proposed legal settlement with book publishers, an accord that would have paved a path toward digitizing the world’s books.
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Dear art world: Why is stealing a wallet not appropriation art?
It’s a few weeks after the latest Richard Prince brouhaha, and as expected things haven’t changed. T
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Stirring Up Trouble Over Beyoncé’s New Video
Pop singer Beyoncé has debuted a new music video for her song “Run the World (Girls),” and because i
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The Photographer, The Entrepreneur, The Stockbroker And Their Rent-A-Mob
Link: there are now two photographic worlds, one on Earth and one in cyberspace, each largely unaware of the other’s existence. The last two weeks have provided a spectacular demonstration of what happens when those two worlds collide
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SLANDER, STUPIDITY & THE MINDLESS MOB ATTACKS ON JAY MAISEL
Link: There’s always that terrifying moment when a large, seemingly peaceful gathering turns brutally ugly. In an instant, blood is drawn and you could easily be crushed by the swirling, pulsing chaos of what is now a mindless, violent mob. Sadly, we all know that inexplicable self-destructive stupidity is not limited to the streets, but…
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David Strick, Celebrity Photographer, Suing L.A. Times For Publishing His Photos After he Left The Paper
Link: What happens when you work as a contract freelancer for a publication and it continues to put out your work after you leave? It’s all about the fine print, innit?
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BBC News editor: We may use social media photos without permission ‘in exceptional situations’
Link: BBC News had wrongly contended that photos posted to Twitter were “in the public domain” because they are “available to most people who have a computer.”
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Gordon vs. McGinley case dismissed
Link: Anne Hathaway rapped, “I’m a paparazzi/I don’t play no Yahtzee/I go pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop/My camera’s up your crotch…”
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Watch out for rights grabs – National Geographic My Montana contest and TurnHere
Link: National Geographic’s My Montana contest features a pretty standard rights grab. It’s particularly sad to see National Geographic taking advantage of photographers in this way, especially since the organization has been so supportive of photography and photographers since the beginning of the craft