Category: Copyright
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Copyright Report Recommends $30K Small Claim Damage Cap
via NPPA: A key lesson for photographers attending the Missouri Photo Workshop, and for all documentary photographers, is that time matters. It’s just not possible to drop into the lives of people and expect that your pictures will honestly reveal the character of your subjects
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Who owns the copyright to Vivian Maier’s street photography?
Link: Maier’s photographic legacy now is worth thousands, if not millions, of dollars, so the state and the stewards of the various Maier collections have a compelling interest to maintain and exercise their ownership of these materials. It will be interesting to see how this legal situation plays out over the coming years.
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PPE 2013: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Social Media
Link: The theme of Thursday’s PhotoPlus Expo panel “Practicing Safe Social Media” seemed to be that social media is a necessary evil in today’s photography industry so photographers need to be smart about how they use it
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AFP and Getty Images found liable for willful copyright infringement, Haitian photojournalist Daniel Morel wins maximum damages.
Link: Gasps were heard in the courtroom as the trial of Daniel Morel vs. Agence France Presse (AFP) and Getty Images ended at the Thurgood Marshall US Court House in Manhattan with Morel being awarded $1.2m in damages, the maximum possible. Jury members said they were “outraged” by the behavior of both agencies. EPUK was…
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Agence France Presse And Getty Images Seek New Trial After Million Dollar Loss In Morel Copyright Infringement Case
Link: lawyers from Venable LLP for AFP and Davis Wright Tremaine LLP for Getty filed post-trial documents asking the court to strike the jury’s finding of wilful infringement and greatly reduce the damages awarded to Morel. Failing that, they have requested that an entirely new trial be held.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer tries to stop Rams fan who’s selling his work
Jim Romenesko via Jim Romenesko: https://jimromenesko.com/ “A week later,” Lee tells me, “I did challenge Mr. Lawrence on Twitter for stealing my picture and selling it. That was when he made his two Twitter account and his Instagram account private. …
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Getty Image’s Gamble
Link: Getty Images announcement today that it has put 35 Million of its 80 million images up for free is no surprise. Here’s why .
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Facebook Photos Employee Posts Step-by-Step Instructions for Stealing Grad Photos
PetaPixel | Photography and Camera News PetaPixel is a photography news site that covers photo and camera news, reviews, inspiration, and education. via PetaPixel: http://petapixel.com/2014/05/28/facebook-photos-employee-posts-step-step-instructions-stealing-grad-photos/ Jesse Chen, a software engineer, graduate of UC Berkley and member of the Facebook Photos team who saw nothing wrong with posting detailed photo theft instructions on his blog for…
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Freelance Jun14: How I paid my mortgage by chasing internet sites that stole my work – meeting report
Link: A bizarre number of people John contacts about their use of his images tell him, “we found it on Google, it was free”, and when pushed, then say, “You forgot to put that it was copyrighted, it’s all your fault”.
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Bing Image Widget – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: The courts have decided that displaying the search results (including images) for the education and benefit of the public is fair use. Now it seems that these displays can be made available to any end user for re-publication and re-distribution for non-commercial or commercial purposes.
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UNC reaches settlement with Justin Cook over copyright infringement, will also hold public forum about creative rights | dvafoto
Link: life for the U.S. officials and military personnel who oversaw the Panama Canal Zone was “a kind of paradise,” said the Madrid-based photographer Matías Costa, who has made several visits to the region in recent years for his project “Zonians.”
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Flickr Taking Heat from CC Photographers for Selling Their Work as Wall Art Without Compensation
Flickr Taking Heat from CC Photographers for Selling Their Work as Wall Art Without Compensation Flickr — a site that sometimes seems like the punching bag of the photo community — is again taking heat from photographers, this time over their recent via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2014/11/25/flickr-taking-heat-cc-photographers-selling-work-wall-art-without-compensation/ The photos are being sold for profit, but none of…
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No image is safe : The Baidu edition – Thoughts of a Bohemian
Link: Enters Baidu, the chinese Google, who recently went public on the US market with a historical IPO. Baidu , like its western counterpart, offers a dedicated Image Search, at http://image.baidu.com/ . But unlike them, it offers a download option right in the thumbnail images. With one click, users can download to their desktop any image…
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Video: Copyright & Your Rights – Straight Talk on the Facts vs the Fiction | PhotoShelter Blog
Video: Copyright & Your Rights – Straight Talk on the Facts vs the Fiction – PhotoShelter Blog This week talked to photographer Jack Reznicki and IP attorney Ed Greenberg, who have been favorites in the industry for their no-bull, get-straight-to-the-facts approach to explaining and making sense of the confusing world of legal jargon and copyright…
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How to Officially Register Your Photographs with the US Copyright Office
How to Copyright Your Photos in 2023 A step-by-step guide on how to officially register the copyright of your photos with the US Copyright Office. via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/how-to-copyright-photos/ The Gullah Geechee people are direct descendants of enslaved Africans who were brought to America from West Africa.
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Why copyright should not be infinite, in a nutshell – Boing Boing
Link: Even from the perspective of a profit-seeking artist, copyright is a double-edged sword. Stronger copyright both increases the rewards from having produced a piece of work and increases the cost of creating new works.
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500px Expands into China with 500px.me, and Some Photographers Aren’t Happy
500px Expands into China with 500px.me, and Some Photographers Aren’t Happy Back in July 2015, we reported that 500px had raised an additional $13 million in funding led by China’s equivalent of Getty Images, the Visual China via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/10/15/500px-expands-into-china-with-500px-me-and-some-photographers-arent-happy/ “My images have been copied to your new chinese version of 500px without my permission,”…
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Titanic victory for fair use: appeals court says Google’s book-scanning is legal / Boing Boing
Link: Google fought this case hard, as well they should. The aggregate value of all the copyrighted Web-pages they’ve indexed certainly exceeds the value of all the books ever printed, and no one seriously argues that Google ingesting those documents, indexing them, and serving back snippets from them is a copyright violation
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How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Video Views
How Facebook is Stealing Billions of Video Views In a Nutshell created this 5-minute video that offers a simple explanation of the problem of “freebooting” on Facebook, when copyrighted videos are ripped via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2015/11/11/how-facebook-is-stealing-billions-of-video-views/ “This number is made out of lies, cheating and worst of all: theft,” writes In a Nutshell. “All of this…
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Google’s Digital Library Wins Court of Appeals Ruling – The New York Times
Google’s Digital Library Wins Court of Appeals Ruling (Published 2015) The Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirms a lower court decision rejecting claims by the Authors Guild that a book scanning project violates copyright. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/17/business/media/googles-digital-library-wins-court-of-appeals-ruling.html “The purpose of the copying is highly transformative, the public display of text is limited, and the…