With an orphan works bill looking more and more likely every month, services are cropping up to help artists claim and protect their works. Does C-Registry stack up?

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New image search engine Tineye hopes to change the way artists and photographers track their work across the Web. In essence, they hope to do for the visual world what Google did for text.

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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.

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.

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 [...]