Posts Tagged ‘artwork’

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.



Update: PhotoBucket Petition Takes Off

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 16th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News, Prevention

The petition against PhotoBucket has been growing at a rapid pace. Here’s a discussion as to what is happening and what the immediate future plans are.



Updates on the Lara Jade Case

By Jonathan Bailey • Oct 17th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Legal Issues, News

Back in May, I reported on Lara Jade Coton, a professional photographer who discovered that a self portrait she took of herself when she was fourteen was used as the cover art for a pornographic DVD.
Later, in July, she filed a lawsuit against the company behind the DVD, TVX Films, with the aid of [...]



Lightbox and Content Theft

By Jonathan Bailey • Jun 19th, 2007 • Category: Articles, Prevention, Products

Lightbox is a very popular jJavascript application for displaying images on Web sites. It, along with the modifications of it and the similar scripts, produce the “fade out” effect that pushes the clicked image to the foreground, making it easier to focus on the large image and giving it more room to be displayed.
Also, since [...]