Posted in Copyright, Photographers on Mar 9th, 2010 2 Comments »
Annie Leibovitz To Keep Iconic Portfolio
A private equity firm took over the debt Leibovitz owed the loan organization that fronted her $24 million in exchange for signing over the rights to all her past, current, and future work.
So, she’s still under the thumbs of money men but these money men are helping her market her [...]
Posted in Copyright, Ideas, Social Software, Tech Stuff on Feb 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Insight
I first learned about Insight through this post at Signal to Noise: “Smart” pasting at The New Yorker site.
If you copy text from a site that has Insight installed, when you paste it the paste will include a link back to the original post. That link is easily deleted if you don’t want it but [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Copyright, Photojournalism on Oct 17th, 2009 No Comments »
‘Hope’ Poster Artist Admits Error
Shepard Fairey, a Los Angeles-based street artist with a long, often proud history of breaking rules, said in a statement Friday that he was wrong about which photo he used and that he tried to hide his error. It was not immediately clear whether he would drop his lawsuit against the [...]
Posted in Copyright, People, Photographers on Sep 6th, 2009 2 Comments »
Leibovitz sued by photographer
Paolo Pizzetti claims Ms Leibovitz used photos he took in Venice and Rome, and passed them off as her own in a 2009 calendar for a coffee company.
Not a good week for Annie Leibovitz.
Posted in Copyright, Opinion, Photo Sites, Social Software on Jun 29th, 2009 6 Comments »
On June 24th Sonia Zjawinski posted a piece for The New York Times’ Personal Tech section: Flickr as an Interior Decorating Tool. In it she both celebrated the number of excellent photographers that can be found in the flickr community but also seemed to advocate using those photographers’ images to decorate one’s home. No mention [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Copyright, Ideas, Photography on Jun 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Drowning Girl by Roy Lichtenstein
I was looking through the excellent photographs of Laurie Lambrecht at lens culture: Inside Roy Lichtenstein’s Studio and images like “Bathing Beauties, stencils,” and “Naples” made me wonder if there is a connection between what Roy Lichtenstein did with period graphic images and what Shepard Fairey did with the photograph that [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Copyright, Social Software on Jun 15th, 2009 No Comments »
Use Their Work Free? Some Artists Say No to Google
This is fascinating and it parallels sentiment in the photography world. Personally, I’m not sure this stance is right for everyone but it’s certainly right for some, especially well established graphic designers and artists who aren’t groping for exposure.
My problem with it is this: a beginning [...]
Posted in Copyright, Photo Sites, Social Software on Jun 12th, 2009 6 Comments »
I stole your images, put them back or I will call a lawyer
Incredible.
The twist is that moving images breaks legitimate inline image posts as well, like me posting my images from flickr at this site. If I replace an image on flickr it breaks the link to this site which of course I can fix [...]
Posted in Copyright, Ideas, Photography, Places on Jun 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Stolen picture used on a billboard in another country
Danielle innocently scans holiday card of her family, posts picture to facebook and her blog and a friend notices it used on a billboard advertising a grocery store in the Czech Republic.
No doubt this goes on all the time and sometimes through chance it’s caught. The assumption [...]
Posted in Copyright, Opinion, Photography, Photojournalism, Politics on Jun 4th, 2009 No Comments »
When a Picture Is Worth a Thousand Debates, Give or Take
A great discussion of the ideas behind a traveling photo show: “Controversies: A Legal and Ethical History of Photography.”
In the article Michael Kimmelman discusses what he calls “the messy, philosophical heart of photography” which involves everything from the ethics of street photography to copyright issues [...]
Posted in Copyright, Ideas, Photographers on May 21st, 2009 6 Comments »
Shepard Fairey ripped off my picture first
Ed Nachtrieb took a picture of two Chinese soldiers in Beijing. That iconic image was used by Fairy in a poster. The comment thread is fascinating.
This is a discussion of copyright, citation, ethics and what exactly original artwork is. Fascinating and no doubt all of us have to keep [...]
Posted in Animation, Copyright, Movies, People, Video on Mar 24th, 2009 No Comments »
This is a trailer for Nina Paley’s full length animated feature: Sita Sings the Blues.
Nina’s earlier work, Fetch was a wonderful early animation that showed a bit of her creativity but Sita takes it to another level (another world).
In the process of releasing Sita, Nina ran into issues surrounding her use of some background music [...]
Posted in Copyright, Photojournalism on Mar 19th, 2009 3 Comments »
Cold shoulder from Coldplay
The British rock band Coldplay’s management has decided to change the rules by which the band is photographed essentially hogging all rites to all photographs. If photographers don’t adhere to the new contract they’re not allowed access to the band. A number of high profile rock photographers are rebelling and writing new [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Copyright, People on Jan 17th, 2009 No Comments »
The Obama Poster Photographer ID’d
This is a fascinating story and Mike Cramer did a great investigative job figuring it out. Congratulations to Reuters and Reuters photographer Jim Young for letting this go by without a copyright fight.
[via Derek Powazek]
Posted in Copyright, Ideas, Photographers, Stories on Dec 2nd, 2008 14 Comments »
Iron Man and Me: A great story about how this image got used in the movie Iron Man. Wish I’d read this before I watched the movie.
Remind me to take more shots of the shuttle assembly building!
[via Derek Powazek]
Posted in Copyright, Events, Photo Sites, Photographers, Places on Aug 25th, 2008 12 Comments »
The Big Picture has a great collection of images of the 2008 Olympics in China: Beijing 2008 – It’s a wrap.
Notice that unlike many of the collections circulating around the web these days, these pictures are copyrighted and the photographers who took them are cited.
Tip for people passing collections of great images around stripped of [...]
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