Photoshoot and Beyond
I have been using Pixsy for a while now to keep track of copyright infringement of my photography and where possible, pursue payments. Having worked through the system a few times now, I have identified a number of simple steps that photographers can t…
Detroit-born rapper Danny Brown recently caused a ruckus when he posted an image taken in Melbourne by Michelle Grace Hunder to Instagram without permission. The photo had been taken at a music festival for Howl & Echoes, a Sydney-based online music site. Last night @xdannyxbrownx played a show in Melbourne and I took photos for […]
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It’s a fact of life these days for photographers that our work may be stolen if we post it online. No matter what level of photography we’re at, if you post enough images to the web, it’s simply become an inevitable consequence of sharing out work with the masses. Sometimes it’s an honest mistake, somebody loves […]
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The curiously named Squijoo (who operate under the slogan “Templates For Photographers and Designers“) came under fire earlier this week and put in the naughty corner after they got caught out in what appears to be systematic copyright abuses and plagiarism infractions. Specifically, a lot of the ‘original designs’ posted on Squijoo were uncomfortably close to designs posted […]
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A year after being sued for allegedly copying its Air Jordan logo, Nike is now under fire for its latest shoes campaign starring FC Barcelona’s Neymar. Rob Whitworth and Selina Miles both turned to Facebook several hours ago sharing their disappointment with the video’s striking resemblance to their own videos, but that’s not all. While […]
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Last month we shared Michael Davies’ stunning photo of tea being tossed at -40° Celsius, which seemed to have spread online like a wildfire. The photo even reached actress and singer Vanessa Hudgens who decided to share it on her social media pages, but unfortunately the famous artist didn’t bother crediting Michael. Angry comments from […]
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An Indonesian monkey, a British photographer and a U.S. federal judge meet in San Francisco. It sounds like the beginning of a joke, but that’s almost what happened this week when a federal court reviewed PETA’s demand to award Naruto the copyright over the famous selfies he captured in 2011. Unfortunately for the macaque, who […]
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It’s a new year, and that means updating your copyright information! For photographers, this oftentimes means making updates in more than one place, like your Camera, post-processing software, and possibly your website. On Your Camera All camera models will be a little different, but they should each have a place to enter your info. For this example, […]
It’s a good idea to add copyright information to your images. Lightroom makes this task really easy by creating a preset, but you have to remember to create your copyright preset at the beginning of each new year.
The news has become the news. January 11th, 2016, Fox News will battle it out in the courtroom against North Jersey Media Group, publisher of The Record and the Herald News, over copyright claims that state Fox News used iconic images from the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center without permission. The image in question […]
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