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Pond5 Launches Public Domain Project with 75K+ Free Media Clips

January 20, 2015 By Eric Reagan

Pond5 Public Domain Project

Pond5 just launched an amazing free resource that contains over 75,000 free media clips, including 10,000 video clips formatted in 4K or HD. There are 65,000+ photos and thousands of sound recordings, which include some great symphony recordings. [Read more…]

Filed Under: stock photography Tagged With: copyright, media, Photos, public domain, stock, video

 

PictureDefense.com Holds Your Hand to Help You Remove Stolen Images

March 21, 2013 By Eric Reagan

Picture Defense

PictureDefense.com is a website that is designed to help photographers take action to have their stolen images removed from the infringing websites hosting such images. The site was created by Jimmy Beltz from PhotoTips.biz and I think he’s done a bang up job on walking us through sending out proper DMCA letters to protect our images. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Legal Tagged With: copyright, DMCA, Legal, Picture Defense, takedown notice

Sugar Factory Becomes ‘Photo Theft Factory’, Photographer Calls Them Out With Photo Shoot

July 4, 2011 By Eric Reagan

Sugar Factory Copyright Infringement

Back in February, Sugar Factory stole at least one of Ryan Doco Connors’ photos, using it on a t-shirt that it sold in its online store. When Connors called them out on it, he was told that Theft Sugar Factory had a legal right to use it because they changed it by 40%, which is a load of crap (legally speaking).

Instead of launching an expensive legal campaign to exercise his rights, Connors did a photo shoot in honor of Sugar Factory’s theft. Check it out below. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Legal Tagged With: copyright, copyright infringement, infringement, Photographers, photography, Ryan Doco Connors, Sugar Factory, theft

Photos Become a Contextual Search Tool with Google Image Search

June 15, 2011 By Eric Reagan

Google has announced a new “Search by Image” feature that allows you to start with a photo to conduct your searches online.

Google uses a photo either via link or uploaded to the service and tries to find similar results.  Here’s how Google explains it: [Read more…]

Filed Under: Internet Tagged With: copyright, google, image search, photo search, photography, Search by Image

Lady Gaga Demands Copyright to Photos Taken at Her Concert

May 18, 2011 By Eric Reagan

Rolling Stone points out photographers’ dilemma going on right now with regard to photographing Lady Gaga’s concerts.  In order to be permitted to shoot the concert, some photographers are required to sign an egregious rights-grab photo release.

There are a couple of provisions that are simply ridiculous from the photographers’ standpoint. [Read more…]

Filed Under: Legal Tagged With: copyright, Lady Gaga, Photographers, release, rights grab

The Stolen Scream

March 9, 2011 By Eric Reagan

This is an interesting story of a man who has had his image stolen from his Flickr account and used thousands of times.

What would you do?

[via FStoppers]

Filed Under: Photographers Tagged With: copying, copyright, flickr, FStoppers, stealing photos, stolen, The Stolen Scream, theft, video

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