Archive for category Copyright

Our New Kelby Training Copyright Video is now out!

Our new Kelby Training video is out! “Copyright Essentials for Today’s Photographer” Check out the intro video here, with Mia McCormick. We go over copyright issues, social media issues, and all sorts of thinks you need to know business stuff. All in the same easy manner we usually teach. We had a live audience for […]

It Ain’t Over Till Its Over and This One Ain’t Over

As many of you know, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals has reversed in part and remanded in part, the decision made by Judge Batts in the case of Patrick Cariou v. Richard Prince.   Many lawyers have commented on the Court’s ruling but unfortunately many laypeople with no legal background, have chimed in to muddy the waters.  We […]

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Our B&H Lecture on YouTube

Our lecture at B&H on copyright and model release issues is up on YouTube. Click here to see it. We rant and rave, laugh and cry, sing and dance as usual, for just under two hours.(That’s metaphorical  singing and dancing. Be thankful we don’t do either in the video). It was actually a lot of […]

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You Gotta Be Kidding Me

We got a link today from Katrin Eismann, pointing us to David Walker’s article in PDN regarding a second photographer finding an infringement and allowing the infringing company to make a $10,000 charitable donation.  Oh, this sounds warm and fuzzy, and feel good, but as photographers we’re being made fools of.   This could be […]

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Ag Gags for Carnivores, Vegetarians, Vegans and Yes, Photographers

No matter what our individual menu preferences are we think we can all agree that “Everybody’s gotta’ to eat”. People can get sick from tainted food whether it be vegetable, fruit or animal.  There are unsanitary dairy farms, cattle ranches, supermarkets, importers and who doesn’t have their own personal restaurant horror story. In the interests of fair disclosure we are […]

Head Fakes Link on Reddit

I see from our traffic, we have someone adding a link on Reddit to the “Head Fake” article. We actually got a few down votes on it, but the vast majority are up votes. If any Redditors here, feel free to upvote us if you feel the article is worthwhile. And if you don’t, ahhh, […]

Boom Box Blowup

Jazz singer and Grammy winner Esperanza Spalding’s new album uses a stylized boombox made up of a photographer’s photos. While we don’t know anything about this case other than that which is contained in the NY Post article here, we can tell you that the fact pattern which culminated in this claim are very, very […]

Jack and Ed Talking at B&H

The good news is we’re there for a lecture, not just to shop. Next Tuesday, February 26th, from 4:00 to 6:00 PM. The bad news is it’s already full.  They do have a wait list if you’re there 15 to 30 minutes before we start.  You can read about it here.

Head Fakes and Other Lawyer Tactics

Attorneys in New York (and most other states) are required to take continuing education classes to keep their licenses to practice law.  Recently I took one such class which dealt with copyright issues or more correctly, how best to represent a client accused of copyright infringement.  Likely 95% of the attorneys taking the class either […]

At the Bottom of the Slippery Slope

We almost always tell this story at our live lectures and Ed appeared in a documentary film about photojournalism citing the importance of this event.  It has the same “new” meaning it had in seven years ago as it does today. Everything old is new again. Tragically, in 2006, a private plane piloted by New York […]

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