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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…
Read MorePICSEL 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…
Read MoreGETTY 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…
Read MoreCOPYTRACK – 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…
Read MoreIPEC 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…
Read MorePearson 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),…
Read MorePhotographer 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…
Read MoreFacebook 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…
Read MoreCopyright 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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