Speaker of the US House of Representatives infringes rights of music composer
Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the US House of Representatives, is one of a list of people who have used a Creative Commons music track, but give no credit.
Tag Archives: copyright
Content theft by reelstreets.com
Possible guide to fees for ‘user generated content’?
Here’s a figure to keep in mind if a TV producer asks to use your photo or video.
Guardian up to its old tricks with photographic competitions and copyright
Back in April I highlighted how the Guardian, Hewlett Packard and Lonely Planet were grabbing a ‘worldwide irrevocable perpetual licence’ in entries to a photographic competition they were running.
Strange grey blur and circles on photographs
These are three photographs that I took on 11 February 2004 at about 6pm. At the time I thought they were rather odd and sent them to a few friends. Now it seems that other people have experienced strange circles and ‘orbs’ on digital images, so I thought I would publish them with some information.
Manchester’s Odeon cinema subjected to a damaging ‘systematic and methodical’ assault to prevent preservation
Manchester’s former Odeon cinema, on Oxford Street, has been subjected to a ‘systematic and methodical’ assault to prevent it being preserved, according to the man who tried to save it.
Photographer loses image library in fire — how safe is your audio and visual data?
As a photographer myself, I broke out into a cold sweat reading how this poor man lost most of his image library in the Lever Street fire. Equipment can be replaced but unique transparencies, negatives and digital images can’t be.