Category: Copyright

  • Jill Greenberg Settles Copyright Claim Against Clorox, McGarryBowen | PDNPulse

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    Link: Photographer Jill Greenberg has settled her copyright infringement claim against Clorox and its ad agency for an undisclosed sum of money, attorneys for the photographer announced. The parties reached the settlement in June.

  • 500px Updates Terms, Sparks Fresh Outrage Among Photographers

    500px Updates Terms, Sparks Fresh Outrage Among Photographers

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    500px Updates Terms, Sparks Fresh Outrage Among Photographers If you’re a 500px member who hasn’t logged in to the photo sharing and selling service for a while, you may be asked to agree to an updated Terms of via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2019/12/19/500px-updates-terms-sparks-fresh-outrage-among-photographers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 If you’re a 500px member who hasn’t logged in to the photo sharing and…

  • Quick Tip: Register Your Copyright before Posting Photos to Social Media | PDNPulse

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    Quick Tip: Register Your Copyright before Posting Photos to Social Media | PDNPulse Social media practically encourages copyright infringement. Here’s advice for protecting your copyright on Instagram and elsewhere. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/11/quick-tip-register-your-copyright-before-posting-photos-to-social-media.html If you don’t properly register your copyright for an image that you publish to Facebook, Instagram or another social media platform, you may…

  • Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz May Have Cost His Client A Ton Of Money, And Set An Expensive Precedent For Copyright Trolls | Techdirt

    Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz May Have Cost His Client A Ton Of Money, And Set An Expensive Precedent For Copyright Trolls | Techdirt

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    Copyright Troll Richard Liebowitz May Have Cost His Client A Ton Of Money, And Set An Expensive Precedent For Copyright Trolls In the last couple of years, lawyer Richard Liebowitz has really made a name for himself in copyright trolling circles. He’s quite aggressive, and even got a huge profile written about him at Slate,…

  • Getty Images is Going All Royalty Free, and That Sucks for Photographers

    Getty Images is Going All Royalty Free, and That Sucks for Photographers

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    Getty Images is Going All Royalty Free, and That Sucks for Photographers Getty Images has announced that it will be transitioning all of its creative stock photography offerings to a Royalty Free licensing model and ditching via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2019/11/07/getty-is-going-all-royalty-free-and-that-sucks-for-photographers/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Getty Images has announced that it will be transitioning all of its creative stock photography offerings…

  • R.I.P. Rights-Managed – Thoughts of a Bohemian

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    R.I.P. Rights-Managed – Thoughts of a Bohemian Goodbye creative rights-managed licenses, Getty Images calls it quits and closes the light… via Thoughts of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/rights-managed/ Just a day after Shutterstock revealed declining profits, a Getty Images email sent to its contributors worldwide made its way to social media and public forum. In it, Getty…

  • Adobe Wants to Help Authenticate Your Photos. What Should Photographers Think? – PhotoShelter Blog

    Adobe Wants to Help Authenticate Your Photos. What Should Photographers Think? – PhotoShelter Blog

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    Adobe Wants to Help Authenticate Your Photos. What Should Photographers Think? – PhotoShelter Blog At Adobe MAX 2019, Chief Product Officer Scott Belsky announced the Content Authenticity Initiative – a nascent and ambiguously defined way for attribution to travel with an image and allow consumers to know, in the words of Adobe VP Dana Rao,…

  • The Changing Landscape of Copyrights: Hope Shifts from Photographers to Users

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    [contentcards url=“https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2019/10/15/changing-landscape-copyrights-hope-shifts-photographers-users/id=114535/”] The Changing Landscape of Copyrights: Hope Shifts from Photographers to Users “Following the well-known Shepard Fairey case, courts have diminished the rights of photographers in their works, both by reducing the elements potentially subject to copyright and expanding the application of fair use.”

  • Two Photographers Sue NYC Parks for Publicizing ‘Unearthed’ 1978 Photos

    Two Photographers Sue NYC Parks for Publicizing ‘Unearthed’ 1978 Photos

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    Two Photographers Sue NYC Parks for Publicizing ‘Unearthed’ 1978 Photos Two former photographers for the New York Times have filed a lawsuit against New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, accusing the department of via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2019/10/10/two-photographers-sue-nyc-parks-for-publicizing-unearthed-photos/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+PetaPixel+%28PetaPixel%29 Two former photographers for the New York Times have filed a lawsuit against New York City Department…

  • The Great Wave: what Hokusai’s masterpiece tells us about museums, copyright and online collections today

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    The Great Wave: what Hokusai’s masterpiece tells us about museums, copyright and online… Katsushika Hokusai died 170 years ago via Medium: https://medium.com/open-glam/the-great-wave-what-hokusais-masterpiece-tells-us-about-museums-copyright-and-online-da0f25bd4ed2 During the lifetime of Hokusai, copyright legislation did not exist in Japan. Some anti-piracy measures were in place, however.

  • The great collapse of copyright – Thoughts of a Bohemian

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    The great collapse of copyright – Thoughts of a Bohemian If major stock photo agencies ignore image copyright, then who will ? Separate but similar events of the last month show an alarming trend.. via Thoughts of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/the-great-collapse-of-copyright/ One of the foundations of photo agencies is to provide its customers with safe, secure,…

  • Attorney Explains How Gigi Hadid Got Her Copyright Lawsuit Dismissed

    Attorney Explains How Gigi Hadid Got Her Copyright Lawsuit Dismissed

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    Attorney Explains How Gigi Hadid Got Her Copyright Lawsuit Dismissed Earlier this week, supermodel Gigi Hadid’s lawyers successfully got a copyright case against her dismissed despite the fact that most people thought this via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2019/07/25/attorney-explains-how-gigi-hadid-got-her-copyright-lawsuit-dismissed/ Earlier this week, supermodel Gigi Hadid‘s lawyers successfully got a copyright case against her dismissed despite the fact that…

  • Magazine Says Its Stolen Cover Photo Was a Stock Photo… of the Photo

    Magazine Says Its Stolen Cover Photo Was a Stock Photo… of the Photo

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    Magazine Says Its Stolen Cover Photo Was a Stock Photo… of the Photo Renowned photographer Nadav Kander was recently surprised to find one of his portraits used without permission on the cover of a magazine. When confronted via PetaPixel: https://petapixel.com/2019/07/10/magazine-says-its-stolen-cover-photo-was-a-stock-photo-of-the-photo/ Renowned photographer Nadav Kander was recently surprised to find one of his portraits used without…

  • Andy Warhol’s ‘Prince Series’ Is Fair Use, Court Rules – The New York Times

    Andy Warhol’s ‘Prince Series’ Is Fair Use, Court Rules – The New York Times

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    Andy Warhol’s ‘Prince Series’ Is Fair Use, Court Rules The artwork did not violate the photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s copyright, according to a ruling that sided with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/arts/design/andy-warhol-prince-fair-use.html?emc=rss&partner=rss The artwork did not violate the photographer Lynn Goldsmith’s copyright, according to a ruling that sided with the Andy…

  • Time Inc. Settles with Photographer in Case of Tweeted Tom Brady Pic | PDNPulse

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    Time Inc. Settles with Photographer in Case of Tweeted Tom Brady Pic | PDNPulse By settling, Time effectively ends appeals in the case, which has implications for how publishers display copyrighted images hosted on social media or other servers. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/05/time-inc-settles-with-photographer-in-case-of-tweeted-tom-brady-pic.html Photographer Justin Goldman has reached a settlement with Time Inc., one of the…

  • Photog Threatens Copyright Infringement Suit for Unauthorized Use of Ilhan Omar Portrait | PDNPulse

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    Photog Threatens Copyright Infringement Suit for Unauthorized Use of Ilhan Omar Portrait | PDNPulse Photographer Jason Grow is demanding payment from an advocacy group that used one of his portraits in a politically charged fundraising ad without permission, and will sue for willful copyright infringement if the group ignores a May 8 deadline, according via…

  • Appeals Court Reverses Controversial Fair Use Ruling in Copyright Case | PDNPulse

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    Appeals Court Reverses Controversial Fair Use Ruling in Copyright Case | PDNPulse In Brammer v. Violent Hues case, appeals court says unauthorized use of a photo to promote a film festival was not fair use. via PDNPulse: https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2019/04/appeals-court-reverses-controversial-fair-use-ruling-in-copyright-case.html A U.S. Court of Appeals has reversed a lower court’s finding of fair use in the case…

  • We All Work for Facebook

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    We All Work for Facebook Digital labor is valuable even when we do it for free. Should we get paid? via Longreads: https://longreads.com/2019/04/26/we-all-work-for-facebook/ Today’s media is ruled by a handful of corporations with enormous market power. One thing that makes these companies so valuable is how few people they employ, relatively speaking, for each dollar earned.…

  • Certain uses of protected content by online services – Thoughts of a Bohemian

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    Certain uses of protected content by online services – Thoughts of a Bohemian The european directive on copyright has been approved. what will it mean for photo agencies and independent photographers? via Thoughts of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/certain-uses-of-protected-content-by-online-services/ That’s it; it’s done. The European Directive on Copyright is passed, and along with it, the infamous “Article…

  • Certain uses of protected content by online services – Thoughts of a Bohemian

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    Certain uses of protected content by online services – Thoughts of a Bohemian The european directive on copyright has been approved. what will it mean for photo agencies and independent photographers? via Thoughts of a Bohemian: http://blog.melchersystem.com/certain-uses-of-protected-content-by-online-services/ That’s it; it’s done. The European Directive on Copyright is passed, and along with it, the infamous “Article…