It is Friday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show. It is our second week with our “longer story” format and we have a lot of great news for you. There’s an update to the Global Grind case, a major plagiarism controversy and perhaps the most…
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A Scholastic-sponsored contest found itself at the heart of a plagiarism controversy. What could have been done to prevent this from happening?
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Sometimes the question “What is Art” is more than philisophical, it’s also a legal query. As is the case with two makers of firebowls at odds in a Tennessee court.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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…
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