Legal Rumble Over the Definition of “Limited Edition”
PDN has published an interview with art collector Jonathan Sobel, who’s …
Daily Mail Publishes Photo Anyway After Owner Denies Them Permission
The Daily Mail is no stranger to copyright infringement accusations, but this time they've taken it even further -- publishing a photo after the owner denied them permission to do so.
At What Point Does Inspiration Turn Into Copyright Infringement?
At what point does inspiration turn into plagiarism? That's the question that popped up last year when Rhianna was sued by David LaChapelle over scenes found in one of her music videos, and it's the same issue with a lawsuit recently filed by photographer Janine Gordon against photographer Ryan McGinley. Gordon claims that 150 of McGinley's images -- including some used for a Levi's ad campaign -- are "substantially based" on her photos. In the three pairs of disputed images shown above, the ones on the left are by Gordon and the ones on the right by McGinley.
Photographer Victorious in Copyright Lawsuit Against Graffiti Artist
Turns out turning photographs into stencils isn’t transformative enough to be defended as “fair use”. In a case that …
New York Stock Exchange Claims Rights to All Photos of Trading Floor
In November 2010, Talking Points Memo published …
Kodak Hopes to Win $1 Billion from Apple Over Camera Patent Dispute
With its photography-related businesses struggling and no end in sight to its stock’s free fall, Kodak is turning to …
First Round of Fight Over Iconic Haiti Photo Goes to Photog
Earlier this year photographer Daniel Morel was shocked when a photograph he captured during the devastating earthquake in Haiti and posted to TwitPic was distributed by Agency France Presse (AFP) and published on the front page of newspapers around the world -- all without his permission.
To add insult to injury, he was then sued by AFP when he sent cease and desist letters in response to the copyright infringement. The dispute has turned into a legal battle over whether images uploaded to TwitPic and shared on Twitter can be freely republished by third parties. In what might be an indication of things to come, a federal court has denied AFP's pre-trial request to have the case thrown out.