Typically, I don’t comment on ongoing controversies, especially ones that I’ve already talked about on the Copyright 2.0 Show.
However, the Lane Hartwell controversy does not seem prepared to end. With the flames already fanned by some of the most popular bloggers, the debate rages on as Hartwell released her much-anticipated statement yesterday and the division [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

In May, I reported on DeviantArt photographer Lara Jade Coton who had discovered that a self-portrait she had taken when she was 14 was being used on the cover of a pornographic DVD.
Earlier today she, through her attorney Richard Harrison, filed suit today in a Tampa courtroom against TVX Films, its owner, Robert Burge, [...]

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 [...]

In a blow to besieged gossip blogger Perez Hilton, his site was taken down Thursday by his host due to repeated copyright infringement claims.
Hilton, who is already involved in four different lawsuits with eight different agencies, including the case with the X17 photo agency, was able to get his site back up in limited capacity. [...]

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 [...]

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Rebekka Guðleifsdóttir is heralded as one of the top photographers on the photo-sharing site Flickr. Guðleifsdóttir, a native of Iceland, is well known for her self-portraits as well as her surreal landscapes.
However, she recently discovered that a photo printing site had not only posted several of her works under a false name [...]