A US appeals court has ruled that Andy Warhol’s silkscreen prints of musician, Prince, which were created using an image by photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, is… Read more
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Copyright reform: Orphan Works in, Fair Use out
The Federal Government has announced proposed copyright reform bringing , and while this includes the potentially troubling Orphan Works exception, the more controversial and harmful US-style Fair Use exception is no longer a consideration. This marks the beginning of an end to an eight-year inquiry into reforming copyright, with Australian creatives likely to welcome the reforms which mostly benefit cultural and educational institutions. Read more
Warhol Foundation fights with Fair Use
A New York judge has thrown out a copyright lawsuit after celebrity photographer, Lynn Goldsmith, claimed Andy Warhol unlawfully created artworks by using her photo… Read more
Fair Use fails photography, again
An American photographer has lost a seemingly straightforward copyright claim against the Republican National Committee (RNC), with the judge ruling the political party’s image theft… Read more
US copyright trumps Fair Use
A US judge has rejected Esquire Magazine‘s claim that it qualified for the Fair Use defence to copyright infringement when it stole and published a… Read more
CCP Photo Fair celebrates local photographers
Melbourne's Centre for Contemporary Photography (CCP) will return to its photographic roots in bringing together nine Australian commercial photographers for its inaugural Photo Fair, a four-day event in August featuring exhibitions and presentations by photographers. Read more
Dumping Quilty: Mean-spirited, unfair and lacking transparency
It comes across as mean-spirited, unfair and lacking any transparency for media organisations to announce their draconian punishments against Andrew Quilty without providing the most basic details of the accusations, or flagging any further investigation into the claims on which those punishments are based. Read more
NY Times uses AI for archiving
The New York Times, with help from Google, will digitally catalogue and archive its vast image library, to safely back-up the paper’s rich visual history.… Read more
Fair remuneration or ‘censorship machine’?
The European Union Parliament has shot down proposed copyright reform which may have forced content aggregating platforms, like Google and Facebook, to license material hosted… Read more
Fair Work audits for small retailers
The Fair Work Ombudsman seems to be focussing on small business this year, initiating a national audit with beefed up fines, and launching a comprehensive… Read more
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