Blog

  • This is an Orphan Work too

    The combination of groundbreaking technology and badly crafted legislation, could make any search of photographs, and by implication their authors, completely redundant. Read more

  • A Guinness in Dublin

    Imagesource has found an original way to invite its partners to Dublin! Read more

  • Inside Brussels

    New Digital Agenda Commissioner sets out her agenda. With the new Commission set to take office in early February, Neelie Kroes, who will take on the newly-created Digital Agenda portfolio, set out her ideas for the future. Read more

  • Online Antitrust Developments in Germany

    There have been numerous developments in Germany recently that have brought focus to online competition issues in Europe and have seen Google come under heavy criticism. Read more

  • More Google USA

    In the US, Various authors groups (The National Writers Union, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, and the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America) sent a letter on January 6, 2010, to members of Congress. Read more

  • HAPPY NEW DECADE!

    The team here at CEPIC are feeling very excited and optimistic about what the future holds for our organisation and for all our members. Read more

  • Creating a CEPIC Community: Announcing the SOFT LAUNCH of CEPIC's new website

    Dear Cepic Members and Friends of our Industry: As the Centre of the Picture Industry, we are happy to announce the soft launch of our new website on January 18th 2010. During the next few weeks there will be more input making the site more user friendly and informative for the membership. Read more

  • What Asterix And Google Have in Common

    On 18 December 2009 a French court found Google guilty of "counterfeiting" and violating copyright of French publisher La Martinière by digitizing hundreds of books within their Google Book Search programme. Read more

  • Copyright Protection in the Age of Digital Piracy

    There are various ways of affording some form of protection to your images. As a professional photographer, I depend significantly upon my website to sell my images. Read more

  • Intellectual Property is a Human Right in Europe

    On December 1st, 2009 the Treaty of Lisbon became valid as the basic EU set of rules. Remarkably, the Treaty of Lisbon contains a Charter of Human Rights compulsory for all Member States of the European Union and all national or European Courts. Read more