Finding the source of a photo on the web is seldom easy. This photo of a serene piano player on the streets of Kiev, playing placidly in the rain while facing helmeted security forces, quickly went viral yesterday. Here is how I found the source…
The practice of sharing images is not new. When I was in college we cut photos out of magazines and pinned them to dorm-room walls along with postcards and our own snapshots and polaroids. Today’s dorm-room wall is social media,
As a photographer and consultant involved in copyright issues I follow a lot of online blogs touching on IP legal issues (primarily copyright of course) including many differing points of view. Here’s the full list of the current blogs. You can also subscribe to them all in a Google Reader feed.
Can automated image recognition software help photo buyers connect more easily with stock photo agencies and individual photographers and quickly identify and license images they find on the Web? Picscout, the 8-year-old Silicon Valley and Israel-based startup is betting yes….
The cover of a travel guidebook is key to its success. Publishers have always put a lot of effort into picking just the right image to sell a book and its destination, and have paid well for the usage. That is, until now.
How do you identify an image you find on the web and find the copyright holder if you want to license the image?
This is the core question that concerns photographers when Orphan Works legislation is discussed, and the impetus behind the PhotoMetadata project to embed identifying information. Now a possible solution has emerged…
William Patry has recently written a fascinating book entitled Moral Panics and the Copyright Wars which should be illuminating reading for every photographer interested in copyright in the digital age.
So what is the big deal about photo metadata? Recently I participated in three onsite seminars in Seattle, SF and LA as part of an SAA tour to educate photographers using a grant from the Library of Congress Digital Preservation project. Simply put photo metadata is data about an image. Basic metadata tells who made […]
Finding the source of a photo on the web is seldom easy. This photo of a serene piano player on the streets of Kiev, playing placidly in the rain while facing helmeted security forces, quickly went viral yesterday. Here is how I found the source…
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