The DAM Show (the site operated by Peter Krogh, author of The DAM Book) recently posted a video “RIP: A Remix Manifesto” by Canadian Film-maker, Brett Gaylor of EyeSteelFilm which discusses the distinction between what might be termed “creative plagiarism” (or remixing) and more shameless copyright infringement …
Continue reading »Nate Andreson, writing in ars technica discusses the findings and recommendation of an IEEE working group into a more lenient form of DRM (Digital Rights Management) which would not penalise users for tenuous IPR infringements which are typically ignored with physical products (e.g. lending a friend a copy of a …
Continue reading »In this article, Eugenia Loli-Queru uncovers a little known fact regarding the license agreement for many professional cameras that support h.264 or mpeg2 formats – you must pay royalties for commercial use.
“No, my friends. It’s not just a matter of just “picking Theora” to export a video to Youtube …
Continue reading »In “Who is Stripping Your Metadata?“, Pro-Imaging.org discusses results of a survey carried out by David Riecks and members of the Controlled Vocabulary discussion forum where they discovered that embedded metadata such as IPTC and XMP is routinely stripped out of image files by social media sites like …
Continue reading »The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is currently being negotiated “in secret” and is a proposed trade agreement for establishing cross-border standards on IPR enforcement ostensibly to limit the trade in counterfeit goods (in particular intellectual property). ACTA’s scope covers many areas including counterfeit products, generic medicines, and internet piracy. The agreement …
Continue reading »According to the British Journal of Photography, the UK national newspaper, “The Independent” has been forced to apologise to a photographer for breaching copyright when using a Flickr stream containing copyrighted images:
…Continue reading »The Independent newspaper has apologised, after it was accused of breach of copyright for publishing a Flickr
