Category: Copyright
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Telegraph’s picture editor caught in copyright infringement blunder
Link: A deputy picture editor for The Daily Telegraph’s website has been caught arguing that editorial staff is not required to gain clearance for the use of images online due to the nature of the industry, BJP can report.
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Don’t Like Me
Don’t Like Me Lots of chatter online about how photographers should embrace sharing their work and stop complaining about copyright. All started by this post (here) by the king of HDR (Trey Ratcliff) who says: A… via A Photo Editor: https://aphotoeditor.com/2012/02/14/dont-like-me/ I can’t blame them for their rapture, because they and many others have discovered…
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Another photographer fights and wins against Shepard Fairey
Link: photographer Dina Douglas has come forward with some details regarding her dispute, and eventual settlement, with Shepard Fairey over Fairey’s usage of her image of a cancer survivor
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Pinterest’s Broken Business Model
Link: As concerns grew it became clear that for many people Pinterest’s real crime wasn’t just that they had created a system designed to encourage easy copyright infringement, but that they attempt to shift the blame for the ensuing infringements onto their users:
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NY Post scolded by photographer
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2012/03/16/ny-post-scolded-by-photographer/ The New York Post declared this week that “Pinterest is the new Facebook,” and used the photo on the right to illustrate its story. The credit line said, “Courtesy Tory Burch via Pinterest.” Actually, the photo was taken by Leela Cyd, and here’s an excerpt of the letter she’s…
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AP pulls falling bear photo after copyright dispute between student photographer, newspaper
Link: On Saturday the Associated Press issued a “photo elimination” of Andy Duann’s falling bear pictures, advising its members to “eliminate from your systems and archives” AP’s “Campus bear” photos shot by Andy Duann and credited to the CU Independent, the student publication of the University of Colorado Boulder, where Duann is a student
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University of Colorado will no longer demand copyright from students
Link: “I’ve personally apologized to [student photographer] Andy Duann for the mistaken assumption that the CU Independent owned the copyright to the falling bear photo, and the resulting controversy that ensued. At Andy’s suggestion, we’re working on a new policy that will assign use of content to the CU Independent but allow content producers to…
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Agence France Presse vs Morel: “AFP Got Caught With A Hand In The Cookie Jar And Will Have To Pay”
Link: It’s unlikely anyone will ever step forward to claim the credit for that particular piece of ingenious public relations, for it’s clear that AFP and Getty are already bracing themselves for a crushing defeat. Buried deep in their memorandum is a plea to the court that should it find in Morel’s favour, damages should…
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All your images are belong to us
Link: In a nutshell, it works like this. Social media platform ( think Pinterest, Facebook, Twitter) install an API on their site that allows to automatically recognize if an image posted belongs to a photo agency (Getty Images only for now). Upon recognition, the usage is either approved or denied. If approve, a license fee…
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A notice doesn’t help: Facebook still gets rights to your pictures
Link: “You only have 3 ways out of this agreement with facebook: 1. Don’t have a facebook account, 2. Negotiate a special agreement with facebook (good luck!), or 3., Delete your facebook account”
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Instagram changes terms of service, but will pro photographers flee anyway?
Link: Instagram says it’s going to delete language from its new terms of service that caused widespreading out-freaking across the Internet.
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Snapshots of the Instagram Debate, Through the Lens of Professionals
Snapshots of the Instagram Debate, Through the Lens of Professionals Many bold-name photographers are reflecting on their use of Instagram after the company announced a controversial change in its usage policy. via The 6th Floor Blog: https://archive.nytimes.com/6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/20/snapshots-of-the-instagram-debate-through-the-lens-of-professionals/ “there is ‘less of a barrier’ when it comes to taking pictures with an iPhone, as opposed to…
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Study exposes social media sites that delete photographs’ metadata
Link: Facebook and Twitter consistently remove the metadata from images, a new study by the International Press Telecommunications Council has revealed. Google+, meanwhile, comes out on top
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Stalked for Protecting Copyright, Author Gets Restraining Order
Link: Victims of ELI’s attacks–including stock photo agencies and attorneys who help them enforce copyright– are cheering, but doing so quietly, for fear of fueling renewed attacks if they speak up. Chan and his attorney say he is being denied his rights of free speech, and that he is the victim of judicial overreach and…
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AFP v Morel case to be judged in September
AFP v Morel case to be judged in September – 1854 Photography Three years after Daniel Morel entered litigation against Agence France-Presse and Getty Images over the unauthorised distribution of some of his images, a trial date has been set. On 16 September, a jury will be asked to rule on some of the outstanding…
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Why Can’t We Take Pictures in Art Museums?
Why Can’t We Take Pictures in Art Museums? In an attempt to balance copyright restrictions and ever-present camera phones, some museums are loosening their ‘no photography’ policies via ARTnews.com: https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/photography-in-art-museums-2222/ “You are fighting an uphill battle if you restrict,” says Nina Simon, director of the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History and author of…
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$1 billion worth of stolen content
Link: While Tumblr always had a policy of abiding to the DMCA and would take down any flagged images not properly licensed, it is however a fact that out of the 107.8 million blogs and 50.6 billion posts, the majority are made of images stolen from other sources.
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» Tumblr restores ‘If iPhoneographers Replaced Photojournalists’ post JIMROMENESKO.COM
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: http://jimromenesko.com/2013/08/23/tumblr-restores-if-iphoneographers-replaced-photojournalists-post/ Fujifilm Japan’s recently-announced Instax Mini 90 is an instant film camera that wears the same retro styling seen in some of the company’s other cameras like the X-M1. It uses Instax film, Fuji’s instant film that measures 2.13 x 3.4 inches — about the size of a credit card.
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My content is your content
Link: This quick edit of images from Syria below was done in a few minutes using a free web app called Storify. All I had to do was type in keywords into a search that covers Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, Flickr, G+ and many more, select the images I liked and publish it on my blog.…
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News Flash Fellow Photographers You’ve Already Sold Your Soul To Facebook
Link: Let me be blunt. If you’ve been using Facebook to this point everything you fear has already been realized… too little, too late