Join the Copyright Reform Debate Today at 3:00PM EST
Join the Copyright Reform Debate Today at 3:00PM EST. Below is the text from an email I received from my friends at the Copyright Alliance. These folks are fighting the war to protect our legal rights for the images we create. They have alerted me to a one-sided discussion taking… Read More »
Copyright Alliance Brings Us More News on Protecting Photos and Art
The Copyright Alliance has once again alerted me to another fight on the front of protecting your Intellectual Property Rights. Seems there are people out there that are hijacking TV and radio signals, capturing them and then repackaging the content to be sold to buyers on the Internet. This would be something… Read More »
Calling All Photographers & Artists-Help Copyright Alliance Protect YOUR Copyright
Calling All Photographers & Artists-Help Copyright Alliance Protect YOUR Copyright. It’s time to put down your cameras, art brushes, sculpting clay and design tools for 15 minutes of business that will help you earn a better living at what you love to do. Photography & Art. I subscribe to a newsletter… Read More »
Understanding the Issues of Stripping Contact Information From Your Photos
In my ongoing quest to end the stripping of Contact Information/Metadata from the photos we all share across the Internet, I’ve been reaching out to folks who have been working to bring attention to this problem much longer than I have. One of the Metadata/Contact Information heroes is a gentleman… Read More »
Orphan Works & Stripping Metadata/Contact Info From Your Photos Explained
I recently became aware of a podcast that does a great job of explaining the dangers of stripping Metadata/Contact Information from all of our photos posted to the web. Facebook is without a doubt the biggest offender. I’ve written a response to this Podcast that was originally going to be… Read More »
The Photographer’s Guide to Copyright – Free from PhotoShelter and ASMP
Dan is traveling at the moment, but he’d want to share this free guide we recently received from PhotoShelter and ASMP. Click the link to download The Photographer’s Guide to Copyright.
Battling to Preserve Your Photo Rights
As many of you know, I began a battle a few months ago to stop the world from removing photographer’s contact information from our photos when uploading images to the web. If you’re a photographer posting your pictures online to sites like Facebook, Flikr, LinkedIn etc., you should read these… Read More »
Instagram/Facebook Apologizes. Backs Off New Policy to Hijack Your Photos
Seems Facebook’s social media reach worked against them this time. You can read the apology from Instagram here. Yesterday, I was made aware of Instagram/Facebook’s (Facebook owns Instagram) new Terms and Conditions that stipulated posting any photos to the Instagram site gave Instagram all rights, commercial and otherwise, to those images forever.… Read More »