Photo District News is reporting that US Airways, it’s insurance company AIG and their lawyers have moved to prevent photographer Stephen Mallon from displaying photos of the recovery of Flight 1548, photos which he appears to own the copyright to. Mallon was hired to document the recovery process by Weeks Marine, who had given Mallon [...]
I wasn’t always a photographer. Back in the 90s I was a disc jockey. I can remember many times getting into heated discussions with young people who had called into the station about whether or not the record companies were within their rights to sue people who downloaded music. No matter how hard I tried [...]
Radio program Fresh Air with Terry Gross had a good discussion of fair use and other copyright issues surrounding this case. The case as a whole has been analyzed ad infinitum out there so I won’t add my 2 cents worth but the interview is worth a listen… http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101182453
Anyone who’s been in this business long enough has a story about being ripped off. Whether it’s about unpaid invoices, clients who make unreasonable demands, or outright fraud, my experience has been there are two types of professional photographers. Those who have been cheated, and those who will. We’ll talk about invoicing, unreasonable clients and [...]
This is the first of several in a series on copyright, as it stands in the US, and how it affects photographers. Part One – The basics. Photography is copyrighted intellectual property, just like books, music and software. Like musicians, authors and filmmakers, photographers are paid a fee for creating the work and then residuals [...]
There are lot’s of social networking outlets. Many of them can be great for finding old friends and new ones, and the occasional client. But many of them also have big rights grabs in their Terms of Service. Facebook has had a fairly heavy rights grab in their TOS for a while but they’ve recently [...]
