• EPIX Launches "Live Interactive Forum", Giving Away Free Trial To EpixHD.com

    Updated: 2010-08-31 22:07:03
    EPIX just announced the launch of EPIX Live, a new online forum powered by Clipsync that allows fans to interact with their favorite artists via thirty-minute Q&A sessions. EPIX's press release says that, "viewers can submit and have questions answered in real time, interact, share and comment with one another and broadcast their participation to their friends via integrations with...

  • Copyright Office Adds Toll-Free Phone Access

    Updated: 2010-08-31 20:27:32
    The Copyright Office now offers a toll-free line in an ongoing effort to improve copyright public services. Callers can now dial 1-877-476-0778 to ask questions about copyright registration, including use of the electronic Copyright Office (eCO), the Office’s online registration system. When patrons call the toll-free line, they will be prompted to select the Copyright [...]

  • Comment Of The Day

    Updated: 2010-08-31 19:54:47
    From regular reader Akston: Emotions are the engine which often drives our efforts. Rationality is the steering wheel. Having one without the other is always problematic. Agreed. And as we’ve seen, this tends to be the case with modern American democratic politics.

  • Pirate Bay Movie Fully Funded In Three Days

    Updated: 2010-08-31 15:39:52
    Just three days after filmmaker Simon Klose started a fundraiser to complete his upcoming Pirate Bay documentary, the seed funding goal of $25,000 has already been reached. The Pirate audience has been extremely generous, with a full 27 days left the counter currently sits at $28,099.

  • Is Google Stripping Your Metadata?

    Updated: 2010-08-29 19:04:46
    Check these important posts from Gunar: Google in the hot seat for stripping metadata in image search results What should Google do about media metadata? Great quote: There will always be people who steal.  That is not the problem to solve.  The challenge is to raise the overall awareness of the ownership of the media, and educate the consumer [...]

  • Pirate Bay The Movie To Be Funded By Peers

    Updated: 2010-08-27 16:00:17
    TPB-AFK, the upcoming documentary about The Pirate Bay and its founders, is expected to be released during the fall of 2011. To complete the project, Swedish filmmaker Simon Klose is starting a campaign tomorrow through which he hopes to crowdsource the funding. True to BitTorrent's nature, peers are asked to contribute to the project.

  • MPEG LA Says H.264 Will Be Royalty Free For Life, For Content That Is Free

    Updated: 2010-08-26 20:31:57
    With all the talk of Apple devices, the Flash platform and the H.264 codec, there has been a lot of speculation in the industry on what MPEG LA planned to do when their current H.264 licensing terms expired in 2015. Today, MPEG LA put part of that speculation to rest as they have announced that they will not charge royalties...

  • Pirate Bay Receives Notice To Keep a Torrent

    Updated: 2010-08-25 22:12:28
    The founder of the small software company Coding Robots was shocked when he found out that one of his works had been cracked and shared on The Pirate Bay. However, instead of asking The Pirate Bay to remove the torrent the company's founder did quite the opposite. He sent a 'Notice of Ridiculous Activity' because the crack didn't live up to his expectations.

  • Ron Paul Breaks With Son Over Mosque

    Updated: 2010-08-25 11:20:29
    This is one of the Texas congressman’s best appearances since the heyday of his presidential run. I’ll admit my enthusiasm for him has waned mostly due to his son and a lot of the people who have associated themselves with Paul. Paul himself, however, is consistently a voice of reason over the irrationality and hatred [...]

  • New Podcast with Photo Attorney – LensFlare 35

    Updated: 2010-08-24 23:06:11
    Dave Warner over at http://www.lensflare35.com/ interviewed me last week to talk about legal issues and my photography.  We had a great time, including making a new tune for the “D-M-C-A.”  The podcast is available on Dave’s site or via subscription in iTunes.

  • The Case For Individualism

    Updated: 2010-08-24 17:30:48
    It seems that this case needs to be made again and again, generation after generation. Well here it is.

  • Copyright Absurdity

    Updated: 2010-08-21 22:07:11
    This story isn’t really that significant, but it’s a case in point of copyright absurdity: Madonna is being sued for using the name “Material Girl,” a reference to her hit 80s song, in her juniors clothing line designed with her daughter Lourdes. Clothing maker LA Triumph says it’s been using the name to [...]

  • Pirate Bay Typo Squatter Trying To Seize Site Trademark

    Updated: 2010-08-20 12:03:03
    This Wednesday a security blog reported that several rogue sites are in operation which aim to pull in people who were aiming to reach The Pirate Bay, but accidentally entered the URL with typos. While this kind of activity is nothing new, there is a more interesting detail being overlooked. One of the companies behind the scheme is trying to register the Pirate Bay trademark in the United States.

  • Is a “Property Release” Required for Use of Photo of a House for an Advertisement?

    Updated: 2010-08-19 16:05:31
    Issue:  HSBC Bank USA used two photographs of house in a brochure (viewable on Scribd) distributed with the San Francisco Chronicle to advertise mortgages.  The owner of the home sued under seven theories of law after others asked him about his financial condition and whether his home was for sale. The result:  No liability under [...]

  • Poll: Have You Registered the Copyrights to Your Photos?

    Updated: 2010-08-18 14:36:49
    Issue:  HSBC Bank USA used two photographs of house in a brochure (viewable on Scribd) distributed with the San Francisco Chronicle to advertise mortgages.  The owner of the home sued under seven theories of law after others asked him about his financial condition and whether his home was for sale. The result:  No liability under [...]

  • Photo Attorney’s Photo on Africa Geographic Blog

    Updated: 2010-08-18 02:42:38
    During a recent photo safari in Botswana, our group was privileged to view and photograph a lioness’ efforts to find her cubs.  The dramatic event tore at our hearts. Grant Atkinson, our wonderful guide, great photographer, and fantastic photography teacher, reported the story on his blog with Africa Geographic.  With my “Sigmonster” and high position [...]

  • “The Pirate Bay Really Sucks,” Says Co-Founder

    Updated: 2010-08-15 14:40:18
    Pirate Bay co-founder and former spokesperson Peter Sunde gave a talk at the Campus Party 2010, where he went over the site's history and how it became the number one enemy of Hollywood and the music industry. Aside from reminiscing about some classic pranks and the famous raid on The Pirate Bay's servers, Peter said that he hoped the site would be soon replaced by something better, as it really sucks.

  • Photographer’s Legal Guide Makes TOP’s List of “The Best Photography How-To Books”

    Updated: 2010-08-14 21:17:07
    Thanks to Mike Johnston over at The Online Photographer for including the “Photographer’s Legal Guide” on his list of “The Best Photography How-To Books!“ Order your copy of the ”Photographer’s Legal Guide” from the Products page (for the e-book version or for an autographed softback copy) or from Amazon for a softback copy or for a Kindle [...]

  • Q&A – Who Owns the Copyright? – Updated

    Updated: 2010-08-14 04:23:38
    Q. If I hand my camera to another person to shoot a few frames, who owns the copyright for the images? A. Copyright protection subsists from the time the work is created in fixed form.  The copyright in the work of authorship immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Unless the photo is a [...]

  • Anti-Piracy Failure Takes Down Creative Commons Videos

    Updated: 2010-08-12 20:32:03
    An anti-piracy group has caused a storm of controversy by taking down movies it has no rights to. GVU successfully ordered video hosting site Vimeo to take down several Creative Commons videos created by a freelance journalist and an independent filmmaker. The anti-piracy tracking company hired by GVU claims that its technology failed.

  • Ip Man 2 Movie Piracy Case A Rare Event In China

    Updated: 2010-08-11 01:46:57
    In a very rare event, a Chinese anti-piracy group says it will sue several websites and companies for their involvement in film piracy in the country. As it teams up with the studio behind the recent martial arts hit Ip Man 2, not only will web portals and Internet cafes be sued, but one of China's biggest file-sharing link sites, VeryCD.

  • Day Three: AFACT v iiNet BitTorrent Piracy Appeal

    Updated: 2010-08-04 14:01:12
    It's the third day in Federal Court for the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft and ISP iiNet. As they continue to pick over the ruling handed down several months ago by Judge Cowdroy, the Court wonders if the appeal will actually solve the copyright infringement dispute between the sides.

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