With the new orphan works bill set to be introduced, visual artists are looking for ways to identify themselves as the copyright holder and prevent their work from being “orphaned”. Here is one easy way to help with that.

Creative Commons is great for many kinds of images, but there are some photos that one practically has to license. For those, GumGum has an easy and cheap solution that may work well for many bloggers.

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.

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.

Though it doesn’t make much sense, Google Image Search had not been indexing images on its Google’s own Blogspot service until earlier this month.
Though this is good news in that it will improve the effectiveness of image search techniques, such as the digital fingerprint method I described on the Blog Herald, it could also [...]

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 [...]

Having control over your own server can be a very powerful thing. It enables you to control who can access your site, how they visit it and what they can see.
Generally, however, that power is best left unused. For the most part, restricting people’s access to your site is a bad move. Though you can [...]

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 [...]