Posted in Art and Design, Cartoons, Copyright, Ideas, Social Software on Jan 26th, 2012 No Comments »
SOPA and PIPA Notice that I didn’t reblog the image but instead linked back to the political cartoonist Daryl Cagle’s blog. I’m not making a statement here, I came close to reflagging the image with proper permission and attribution of course, but, I want Cagle to get the traffic, he’s the artist so best to [...]
Posted in Copyright, Ideas, Photographers on Jul 12th, 2011 No Comments »
The Photographer, The Entrepreneur, The Stockbroker And Their Rent-A-Mob Jeremy Nicholl has written an amazing commentary on a fascinating and controversial series of events. A quick backstory: The photographer Jay Maisel took a picture of Miles Davis for the cover of the famous album Kind of Blue. Maisel owns the copyright to the image. Many [...]
Posted in Apple, Copyright, iPad, iPhone, Macintosh, Music, Social Software on Jun 5th, 2011 No Comments »
Music Industry’s Blessing Lifts Hopes For iCloud NPR’s Laura Sydell has a nice overview of Apple’s upcoming iCloud announcement. Worth listening to even if you know quite a bit about it already.
Posted in Copyright, Ideas, iPhone Photography, Photo Resources on May 24th, 2011 No Comments »
That famous space shuttle photo: When is sharing stealing? Stefanie Gordon took a picture of the Space Shuttle taking off from a commercial airliner. No doubt some of you have seen the image. She tweeted it to friends with Twitter when she landed and didn’t think much more about it. By the time she was [...]
Posted in Copyright, Ideas, Opinion, Process, Reading, Social Software on Mar 20th, 2011 13 Comments »
For those who don’t know it: The New York Times is going to be charging users of its online content and their pay scheme is complex and expensive. Here are the details: A Letter to Our Readers About Digital Subscriptions I saw a tweet from The New York Times this morning and I followed it. [...]
Posted in Collections, Copyright, Ideas, Social Software on Mar 10th, 2011 No Comments »
NYT Editor Says It’s Only Journalism When He Does It I love it. Matthew Ingram’s Gigaom piece was aggregated by the New York Times and the piece is about Bill Keller, the executive editor of The New York Times looking down on aggregation as theft. The piece is brilliant. Here’s the piece that set Matthew [...]
Posted in Copyright, Photo Sites, Photographers, Stories, Video on Mar 9th, 2011 3 Comments »
The Stolen Scream: A Story About Noam Galai from FStoppers on Vimeo. About two years after publishing photos of myself screaming on the Flickr, I discovered that my face was ‘for sale’ in several stores around the world, as well as on the Web and spotted it in places like Spain, Iran, Mexico, England and [...]
Posted in Art and Design, Copyright, Photographers on Jan 12th, 2011 No Comments »
Obama Image Copyright Case Is Settled The Associated Press and the artist Shepard Fairey have settled their copyright battle over the unlicensed use by Mr. Fairey of an A.P. photograph of Barack Obama in the memorable 2008 “Hope” poster. The A.P. announced the settlement on Wednesday. Background on this here.
Posted in Copyright, Food, Social Software on Nov 5th, 2010 No Comments »
The Day The Internet Threw a Righteous Hissyfit About Copyright And Pie Great headline. Fascinating story. Linda Holmes at NPR has written the best overview I’ve read yet of this now viral story about copyright and ignorance. I particularly like that Linda makes reference to what I call virtual lynch mobs: people ganging up on [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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