The Court of Appeals for the State of Washington has rendered a decision against Corbis to the tune of some 12.75 million dollars. Great articles here at Register.co.uk and here at Geek.com. According to the Appellate Court’s opinion, in 2004 Corbis hired a company known as Infoflows to, “develop a system to track and manage […]
Archive for category Legal Things
Corbis Takes Yet Another Hit
May 18
We both urge you all to let your government know how you feel about the proposed copyright registration fee increase and that you vote by writing directly to the Copyright Office at http://www.copyright.gov/docs/newfees/comments/index.html THE DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS IS THIS MONDAY BY 5PM EST! All too often photographers have been silent while their elected representatives have […]
This falls under “Things you should know” Here’s a link to a great blog piece on Scientific America’s website regarding the Pinterest TOS (Terms of Service). The writer, Kalliopi Monoyios is a scientific illustrator at the University of Chicago and a book illustrator. She explains word by word what scares her away from Pinterest. http://tinyurl.com/6ndolc7 […]
Here’s an interesting 20-minute-long documentary film titled Chimping by Dan Perez de la Garza about the current state of photojournalism featuring Ed and our good friends Chris Usher and the recently departed (and greatly missed) Paula Lerner. This film is about their work and the state of the profession. We think it’s a thought provoking […]
Famous artist Shepard Fairey may end up serving some jail time over his famous Obama “Hope” poster. When questioned about the infringement of the photo used to create the poster, he lied to investigators and destroyed some evidence. That’s a no-no. Ask ex-con Martha Stewart, who didn’t go to jail for insider trading, but for […]
“Free” labor is readily available to employers in today’s economy. This is especially so within the advertising, publishing and media fields. Such “free” laborers are often called “interns”. Unlike in years past however, many of them rather than being college students working for school credit, are people who have been fired/terminated/let go from jobs paying […]
The individual copyright holder whether a photographer, illustrator, or multi national corporation and regardless of the size of the claim, is required by law to have a copyright case heard in Federal Court and Federal Court only. Unlike many state and local courts, which have different procedures for cases of different types and magnitudes, Federal […]
Sorry for the length of this article, but it’s a subject that burns our behinds. We have written numerous articles concerning the giving away of intellectual property without receiving monetary compensation a/k/a “free of charge”. The theme of each prior post is that large media conglomerates are grabbing your intellectual property because all too many […]
Free Photos!…Not Really
Sep 27
The War on Photographers Continues. This is an article we ran on another blog, but it’s such a great lead-in to the blog article that we’re posting tomorrow, we thought we’d run it here again. There is a famous story of Picasso, who was sitting in a Paris café, when a fan came up to […]
The Hidden Cost of Stealing
Jul 19
A rose by any other name still smells the same. We been talking recently and reading about many cases involving appropriation, adaptation, influence, sampling, remixing, reiterations, sequels, ganking, detournment , and reconfiguring. We simply call it as we see it- stealing. But at what cost these days? There is a cost to those who are […]
