Photo Of The Week: Ferry Fast Food
Photo © Jeremy Nicholl 2011. All Rights Reserved. Irish Sea, 29/03/2011. Potato crisp in one hand, sandwich in the other, a passenger sits in a cafe area on board a ferry crossing from Larne in...
View ArticlePhoto Of The Week: The Stig Gets The Hump
Photo © Jeremy Nicholl 2011. All Rights Reserved. Fakenham, Norfolk, England, 10/04/2011. A jockey dressed as the Stig, from the BBC’s Top Gear, at the start of racing at Fakenham National Hunt...
View ArticleMourning In Freetardia: No (Un)fair Use For UK
Expect great freetard wailing and gnashing of teeth this week with the much-anticipated publication of the Hargreaves Intellectual Property Review in the UK. The review, announced last Autumn by UK...
View ArticleHargreaves And UK Orphan Works: If At First You Don’t Succeed, Try, Try To...
Orphan work courtesy Professor Ian Hargreaves “Who has won the copyright wars?” asked Rory Cellan-Jones last week on the eve of publication of the Hargreaves Intellectual Property Review. Judging by...
View ArticleAlamy: “We Can Cannibalise Microstock” [By Selling Photos Even Cheaper]
Raw deal: available from iStockphoto for $430...or Alamy Premium for $49. When does stock photography become microstock photography? Can it be cheaper than microstock? And what happens when a...
View ArticleBoing!!! Cory Doctorow’s Daily Mail Copyright Clanger
Cory Doctorow: serious about copyright... Photo by Ed Schipul (CC BY-SA 2.0) Question: what do you call someone who campaigns for anyone to be allowed to publish a photographer’s work without...
View ArticlePhoto Of The Week: Sandringham Santa Dash
Photo © Jeremy Nicholl 2011. All Rights Reserved. Sandringham, Norfolk, England, 04/12/2011. Runners dressed as Father Christmas take part in the Santa Dash fundraising run for the Norfolk Hospice...
View ArticleThe Photo Follies 2011 Awards
Welcome to the Photo Follies 2011 Awards, the Premier Photo Industry Contest In This Universe Or Any Universe Yet To Be Discovered™. Entries were judged by a jury consisting of leading industry...
View ArticleSchindler’s Bus: London Judge Takes Cory Doctorow For A Ride
You wait ages for a Schindler, then two come along at once... Charles Swan is one of the UK’s top intellectual property lawyers. His opinions on copyright and court judgements are to be taken...
View ArticleHow To Nuke Your Own Business: Steal A Photo
You’d think there’s enough evidence by now that stealing other people’s images is only for the truly dumb. Whether it’s one of the world’s largest news agencies facing a $123M copyright suit, a...
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