copyright

Janet Jackson’s concert photography contract is worse than Taylor Swift’s

Oct 21, 2015 Liron Samuels

Remember the massive outcry when Taylor Swift’s terrible concert photography contracts were published? Apparently Janet Jackson doesn’t, or she just really doesn’t care. Earlier today…



500px & Google Chromecast Partnership – Exclusive Interview With 500px

Oct 1, 2015 JP Danko

500px and Google recently announced an agreement that will see a curated selection of the 500px photography collection available to Google Chromecast users for display…



PETA lawsuit claims famous monkey owns the selfie copyright

Sep 23, 2015 Liron Samuels

Remember the macaque monkey who snapped a few selfies that went wildly viral back in 2011? While photographer David Slater and Wikipedia argued about whether…



Social Media Networks Don’t Give a Flying Fudge-Nugget About Your Copyright!

Sep 10, 2015 JP Danko

I have been working on ways to automate some of my social media and blogging activity over the last little while and one of the…



Photographing Food Can Be Considered Copyright Infringement In Germany (And, Why I Agree)

Aug 17, 2015 Tiffany Mueller

Earlier this year, we talked about how many restaurants are embracing social media as a means of free advertising. Some American restaurants even changed their…



Retweeters Of A Copyrighted Photo Just got Sued

Jul 9, 2015 Udi Tirosh

By now we should all know that taking someone’s photo and uploading it to social media is not cool (and not legal either). But what…



A Guide to Plagiarism and Theft in Photography

Jun 8, 2015 Robert Baggs

In 2013, my most popular article (by some distance) was the story of how my most successful image was plagiarised in a rather unusual way;…



How Richard Prince Sells Other People’s Instagram Photos for $100,000

May 21, 2015 Liron Samuels

If you were to take a screen shot of someone’s Instagram account and try selling it, two things would happen. The first is that you’d…



Nike Files to Dismiss Air Jordan Logo Copyright Lawsuit

Mar 19, 2015 Liron Samuels

A lawsuit filed against Nike back in January claimed the Jumpman logo was infringing on the copyright of one of Jacobus Rentmeester’s images of MJ….



Who’s Killing The Photography Industry?

Mar 5, 2015 JP Danko

Mom-tographers?  Spray and Pray’ers?  (P)rofessionals?  Guy With A Camera?  Fauxtographers?  Uncle Bob?  iPhoneographers, Glamor Shots by Deb?