Posts Tagged ‘art’

Lizzer: A Copyright/Hotlinking Disaster

By Jonathan Bailey • Oct 8th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, Products

In the quest to help bloggers locate interesting content to include in their posts, a new company Lizzer has risen to create a service that manages to do more harm than good, causing users to unwittingly hotlink images and infringe copyright.



Orphan Works: Write Your Representative

By Jonathan Bailey • May 6th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, Orphan Works

With the orphan works debate continuing to rage, for those who are opposed to the bill, I’ve written a draft letter to send to government representatives outlining some of they key problems with the bill and why artists are opposed to it.



PhotoDropper: Creative Commons Made Easy

By Jonathan Bailey • Apr 9th, 2008 • Category: Articles

One of the greatest challenges in using Creative Commons works is giving a proper attribution in the correct format. However, a new WordPress plugin handles that and also helps you format the images for you blog and locate the right photo.



iStockPhoto Comes Under Fire

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 6th, 2008 • Category: Articles, DMCA, Legal Issues, Prevention

When the popular Flickr user Rebekka discovered that her images were being sold on iStockPhoto, she decided to turn her story into a cautionary tale for other photographers and artists.



Update: PhotoBucket Responds

By Jonathan Bailey • Feb 1st, 2008 • Category: Articles, News, Personal Experiences, Villains

After nearly two weeks of silence, PhotoBucket has responded to the controversies surrounding its service. However, the reply is not likely to put anyone at ease.



Attributor Dubs Megan Fox Hottest on the Web

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 10th, 2008 • Category: Articles, News, Products

Content tracking company Attributor puts its image monitoring software to a very interesting test and settles more than a few barroom bets while making a point about image use on the Web.



Find Image Plagiarism with FeelImage

By Jonathan Bailey • Aug 10th, 2007 • Category: Articles, News, Products

New photo search engine FeelImage aims to make it easier to search for photographs by their “feeling”, in particular their color and time.
Though it might seem like something of a novelty, the ability for users to search for “purple flower” or “red car” might have an unintended side effect, enabling photographers and artists to [...]



Ripped Art Task Force Seeks Volunteers

By Jonathan Bailey • Aug 7th, 2007 • Category: Articles, News

DeviantArt’s Ripped Art Task Force, previously covered on this site, is seeking volunteers to help process reported rips.
The group, which has already become one of the most successful grass-roots anti-plagiarism forces, is receiving more cases than it can effectively process.
The group needs volunteers, especially ones very familiar with the deviantArt community, that can [...]



New Anti-Plagiarism Group forms on deviantArt

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 13th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News, Prevention

Following the recent spate of content theft at deviantArt, one of the artists that had her work lifted, Deb Walker, has created a profile and started a group dedicated to tracking down and stopping theft of dA member’s works.
The group, entitled the RippedArtTaskForce, opened its doors eariler this week and according to its description, is [...]



Art Theft Scandals Rock deviantArt

By Jonathan Bailey • May 29th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News

Recently, British phtographer Lara Jade recently discovered than a self-portrait she took of herself when she was fourteen was being used on the cover of a porn DVD without her permission.
Almost at the same time, American fractal artist Deb Walker discovered that some of her artwork was stolen, some of it being sold as prints [...]