The seemingly endless Shepard Fairey legal saga continued this past week in Federal Court in New York. Mr. Fairey, an illustrator and the creator of the “Obama Hope” poster, had been involved in a copyright infringement matter where – very long story, short – claims were made that his poster was a rip off of copyright registered […]
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Great News! $27,000 Payday
Aug 27
We seem to be posting a lot of hard stories and it’s great to post an uplifting story today. It’s about a photographer who negotiated and got a $27,000 payday for one of his wedding photos. It was first reported to be $18,000, but photographer/blogger John Mireles who first broke this story (read here) later […]
There was a terrible workplace shooting today in New York City, near the iconic Empire State building. Within minutes, people who were nearby and witnessing some of the carnage immediately posted images and videos shot on their ever-present smart phones. Within minutes of the images being uploaded, various new organizations were contacting the people who […]
Jack here. Ed just posted to wonderful comments on a great industry blog, A Photo Editor, regarding the recent sale of Getty Images for $3.3 Billion dollars. I thought it would be good to post and share it here, along with any comments our readers might have. Below are Ed’s comments and I quote and […]
Ed and Jack in a free live webinar this Thursday at 5pm EST, 2pm PST, sponsored by NIK. We’ll be covering a bunch of topics, from current things in the news, an overview of Copyright, and model release factoids. We’ll also have time for questions and hopefully answers to those questions. It’s free, but you […]
Rodney King died last week. His death was in all the papers. In all the news outlets. He was of course the famous victim of what has been termed “The Most Famous Beatdown in History”. The initial trial of the LAPD officers was front page in Southern California and in nearly all other publications both […]
Corbis Takes Yet Another Hit
May 18
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
