Category: Copyright

News Flash Fellow Photographers You’ve Already Sold Your Soul To Facebook

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Let me be blunt. If you’ve been using Facebook to this point everything you fear has already been realized… too little, too late

January 10, 2020
Copyright Report Recommends $30K Small Claim Damage Cap

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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

January 10, 2020
Who owns the copyright to Vivian Maier’s street photography?

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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.

January 10, 2020
PPE 2013: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Social Media

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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

January 10, 2020
AFP and Getty Images found liable for willful copyright infringement, Haitian photojournalist Daniel Morel wins maximum damages.

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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 there and reported daily from the eight-day trial.

January 10, 2020
Agence France Presse And Getty Images Seek New Trial After Million Dollar Loss In Morel Copyright Infringement Case

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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.

January 10, 2020
St. Louis Post-Dispatch photographer tries to stop Rams fan who’s selling his work

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“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. …

January 10, 2020
Getty Image’s Gamble

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Getty Images announcement today that it has put 35 Million of its 80 million images up for free is no surprise. Here’s why .

January 10, 2020
Facebook Photos Employee Posts Step-by-Step Instructions for Stealing Grad Photos

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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 his fellow graduates

January 10, 2020
Freelance Jun14: How I paid my mortgage by chasing internet sites that stole my work – meeting report

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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”.

January 10, 2020
Bing Image Widget – Thoughts of a Bohemian

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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.

January 10, 2020
UNC reaches settlement with Justin Cook over copyright infringement, will also hold public forum about creative rights | dvafoto

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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.”

January 10, 2020
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 that profit will go to the photographers who took the shots, and some of these photographers are speaking up about what they see as an injustice.

January 10, 2020
No image is safe : The Baidu edition – Thoughts of a Bohemian

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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 they see, making it even easier to steal images.

January 10, 2020
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 technicalities. Together they’ve written the Photographer’s Survival Manual, and their newest release, the second edition of The Copyright…

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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 technicalities. Together they’ve written the Photographer’s Survival Manual, and their newest release, the second edition of The Copyright Zone, is an essential for every working photographer. Through real world case studies, personal asides, and their clear, plain English speaking style, they’ve gained a following of photographers who have benefited from their sound advice over the years.

January 10, 2020
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.

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The Gullah Geechee people are direct descendants of enslaved Africans who were brought to America from West Africa.

January 10, 2020
Why copyright should not be infinite, in a nutshell – Boing Boing

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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.

January 10, 2020
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

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“My images have been copied to your new chinese version of 500px without my permission,” says Ted Gore. “If that’s not bad enough, the colors have all been shifted, the order of their placement is completely random, and any information for any viewer to find me or any information about me seems to be absent.”

January 10, 2020
Titanic victory for fair use: appeals court says Google’s book-scanning is legal / Boing Boing

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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

January 10, 2020
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

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“This number is made out of lies, cheating and worst of all: theft,” writes In a Nutshell. “All of this is wildly known but the media giant Facebook is pretending everything is fine, while damaging independent creators in the process. How does this work?”

January 10, 2020