Category: fair use

Cinematography Database YouTube Show cancelled over Copyright issues

John Aldred

The Cinematography Database was one of the more recent YouTube shows I really started looking forward to the each week as new episodes were released. Now, the creator of the show, Cinematographer Matt Workman, has been forced to shut down the show in its current format over Copyright issues. In the latest video to the Cinematography Database channel, […]

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Fox News set to defend itself in court over use of 9/11 images on Facebook

Gannon Burgett

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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Artist Annoyed At Madonna Using His Work With No Credit Under ‘Fair Use’

Udi Tirosh

As artists, we find the ‘Fair Use’ doctrine to sometimes be beneficial, but sometimes to be extremely disturbing. I guess illustrator Danny Quirk subscribes to the latter according to a post he made concerning Madonna using his work on her shows under that doctrine. Danny has a series of illustrations called Dissections which shows medical sketches (the kind […]

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The Fair-use Myth

Richard Harrington

A popular myth in both photographic and academic cultures is fair use. The doctrine provides situations where copyrighted works can be used without paying. It places restrictions on: The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes The nature of the copyrighted […]

Putting it out there without giving it away

Attorney Matthew B. Harrison

By Matthew B. Harrison, Esq. Photos & The Law dot com as originally published in issue 219 of TALKERS magazine SPRINGFIELD, MA — On May 16th, at 6:30 am Stefanie Gordon boarded a Delta flight from New York to Palm Beach. Somewhere along the flight, out the window of her airplane seat, she took a […]