The photo industry has always been beset with life threatening challenges. From the beginnings of digitisation through to the wholesale use of social media, creators and their representatives have had to fight for a perch in a business all too easily overrun by those who simply want to make money from other peoples’ talent. Not to mention those who don’t care a jot about quality …..
Trevillon announce the lucky winner of their Ipad-Mini competition.
The Court of Appeal has upheld the decision of the High Court that the Mail Online infringed the privacy of Paul Weller’s children by publishing unpixelated photographs of them out shopping.
30 years ago UK photographers were at a disadvantage compared to other creative suppliers such as illustrators or composers. Copyright in a photographer’s work automatically belonged to the client unless otherwise agreed.
Charles Swan’s new blog addresses the new trend of photographic competitions and important copyright issues that emerge with it.
Photo pirated? Wrong name or wrong person? Metadata striped? Copyright infringed? Personality rights infringed? No author, wrong credit, same pic used twice in advertising campaign? We collect famous and unfamous cases showing what happens when rights around picture use are not respected.
“Few would dispute that music is culturally essential and economically important to the world we live in,” said Maria A. Pallante, Register of Copyrights, “but the reality is that both music creators and the innovators who support them are increasingly doing business in legal quicksand.
International Press Telecommunications Council is currently working towards its conference in Warsaw in June, ‘Metadata Conference: Metadata in the Real World – The Payback on Your Investment’
The European Parlimanent EP has voted this morning to maintain text calling for unbundling of search engines, by 458 to 173 with 23 abstentions. A symbolic vote to be taken seriously.
The BBC reported that millions of historic images have been uploaded onto Flickr and are distributed for free. This sheds a new wave of anxiety amongst Fine art & Archiv libraries. CEPIC took the time to take a deeper look behind this evolution to find out what it truly holds.
