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Facebook Rights Manager for Images

October 20, 2020 Admin

CEPIC – the  Coordination of European Picture Agencies Stock, Press and Heritage image collections, recently announced the following: Facebook has launched an update to its Rights Management System to give rightsholders “more control” over claiming copyright of images found on…

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PICSEL – Picture Industry Collecting Society for Effective Licensing

June 5, 2019 Admin

PICSEL is a not-for-profit organisation, committed to taking care of your interests and giving you a level platform to engage in secondary licensing. As a brand new collecting society for pictures our key objective is to ensure that all visual…

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Getty Images Sued Again

April 25, 2019April 25, 2019 Admin

GETTY IMAGES  are accused of profiting from Public Domain Images.  Dallas-based digital marketing company CixxFive Concepts has recently filed a class action lawsuit against Getty Images. The lawsuit claims that Getty is allegedly licensing images that are in the public…

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Copytrack

April 11, 2019April 11, 2019 Admin

COPYTRACK – FIND STOLEN IMAGES & ENFORCE COPYRIGHT 3 billion images are shared online every day. 85% of them get stolen. Find all your digital images on the internet with our Reverse Image Search. Save valuable time and still be…

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IPEC small claims costs warning

January 9, 2019April 15, 2019 Admin

IPEC small claims costs warning: Pablo Star Media Ltd v Richard Bowen ========================= Government announces new copyright exceptions The Government has published its plans for further copyright exceptions in line with recommendations in the Hargreaves Review. It intends to bring…

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Photo Copyright Claims Follow Book Publisher by Rose Bouboushian

August 30, 2018April 11, 2019 Admin

Pearson Education must face claims that it printed and globally distributed thousands of photos in textbooks without permission, a federal judge ruled and read what he said.   The publisher faces five lawsuits in New Jersey from Minden Pictures Inc. (MPI),…

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Earthquakes and other disasters: the Morel decision, eye witness photos on Twitter and the media

March 20, 2017April 15, 2019 Admin

Photographer Daniel Morel was awarded summary judgment last week in New York in his ongoing copyright infringement claim against Agence France Presse, Getty Images and the Washington Post. AFP and the Washington Post will have to pay him damages after…

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Privacy injunction stops tabloid publication of embarrassing

March 20, 2013April 1, 2019 Admin

Facebook photos: RocknRoll v News Group Newspapers     The High Court has granted an interim injunction preventing the Sun from publishing embarrassing Facebook photos of Edward RocknRoll, who married Kate Winslet in December 2012.   The photographs had been…

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When does freedom of speech trump copyright?

March 20, 2013March 28, 2019 Admin

Copyright is a property right and therefore a human right protected under Article 1 of the First Protocol of the European Convention on Human Rights. Is the right to property a more or less important card in the human rights…

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