Two ladies, both “of the media” who at first blush appear to have little in common, now share the title, “litigant”. Though they live some 1,500 miles apart from each other, have dissimilar backgrounds and neither would be confused for the other, they are now sisters in litigation. First up – daytime TV star, real […]
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The Copyright Office has announced new fee structures, effective May 1st. You can read the entire PDF list here. Basically, registration of collections is rising from $35 to $55 on May 1st. That’s quite a jump, so we highly recommend to register all those images you were putting off registering, during the month of April. […]
For those readers who cling to the absurd notion spread by your comrades that written, signed model releases aren’t really that important, be warned that this article will upset you. We hope it scares the heck out of you. Here are the relevant facts and portions of the March 6th decision of Justice A. Singh […]
“Haven’t I taught you anything? What have I always told you? Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain?” The preceding quote is by J.K. Rowling from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Interesting concept. For over three decades we have unfortunately regularly referenced cases […]
Back To The Future – Again
Feb 21
As a follow up relating to our “Back to the Future” article, Ed recently took the deposition of an employee of a large consumer company which maintains a stock library of photographs used by/or submitted to it for potential use over the years. Various documents were needed by it of and concerning an image, containing […]
Location Booby Prize
Jan 19
Here’s another high profile example of why we preach that obtaining property and location agreements is a wise practice. Photographer Allen Henson has been working on a photo project featuring topless women in public places. The New York Daily News and countless other media outlets have covered his exploits for obvious reasons – puns intended. On […]
The act of taking funds out of the cash register and diverting them for some illegal, unintended or illegitimate purpose is commonly called “skimming”. One who is caught engaging in such activity at say a casino, often disappears for eternity. A “defalcation” is an amount of funds misappropriated (a/k/a “stolen”) by a person trusted with receiving […]
We’ve heard and written about numerous and never ending excuses from infringers. One of the most common responses we heard goes like this: “We made no money” or “We didn’t charge any money”. The following is a current, real life court case that shows that it doesn’t matter that money didn’t change hands. New York […]
You Can Make It Up
Dec 31
Left Coast photographer Howard Rosenberg gets the credit for finding this beauty. Our readers know that we are quite fond of the phrase, “You can’t make this stuff up” and we use it frequently in our workshops. Here is proof that you can, in fact, make it up. Howard noted some discussions in a photo […]
Back To The Future
Dec 24
Clichés like, “Dance with the person who brung ya’” or “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” speak to the wisdom of doing that which has worked well in years passed. We have all become eager participants in the digital age and the instant communications it affords us. We are now all tied 24/7 to […]
