Copyright Archives - Gary Crabbe - Enlightened Images Photography

Hey, that’s my picture in your painting! (Derivative Use)

Picture: Side by side comparison of my "Native Spirit; Bird flying past El Capitan in Yosemite Valley" photo and a screen capture of a derivative use painting. On top of all the other stuff that's been keeping me busy lately, guess what I found? While re-writing a section of my…

Gary CrabbeMarch 9, 2012

The joys and perils of going viral

Picture: Elk in river during wildfire, Bitterroot National Forest in Montana; credit: John McColgan / Alaska Fire Service Several times in the last few weeks, I've watched as photos have gone 'viral'. In the Internet age, that means that photos receive immediate and widespread recognition and distribution on web sites…

Gary CrabbeAugust 27, 2009

Great Photo Business Links 090713

From Art Wolfe and Outdoor Photographer Magazine: Get into the Stock Market. In this article, famed photographer Art Wolfe shares his wisdom with aspiring outdoor & nature photographers who are starting down the path of wanting to sell their images. While he discusses many of the fragmenting and frustrating changes…

Gary CrabbeJuly 17, 2009

Noteworthy legal tidbits re: books and the NT

Picture: Fountain Garden at Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Cotswolds Region, Oxfordshire, England A couple legal tidbits worth noting: First; Are you an author? Do you have a book of your photography or writing that's been published before Janunary 5th, 2009? If so, you may want to look over the following pdf…

Gary CrabbeApril 28, 2009

Licensing Copyrights & Copywrongs on the Left Coast

And now back to our regularly scheduled business programmig: First is an announcement for those living and working in the Southern California region, and following that is a strong suggestion for everyone who dabbles in stock photography The West Coast Chapter of the ASPP (American Society of Picture Professionals) is…

Gary CrabbeMarch 28, 2009

How many reasons for a celebration?

How many reasons do you need for a celebration? For me, right now, it's two; the recent successful server upgrade and my blog upgrade to Wordpress 2.5 both of which seems to be working. (Knocking on wood.) However, I'm shorted by a mere 11,999,998 reasons when compared to photographer Liz…

Gary CrabbeJune 23, 2008

Orphan Works – Political Action Made Easy

A storm is brewing again in Washington DC, and this battle is important for all visual artists to pay attention. Orphan Works (OW) is legislation that will allow someone to use an image without penalty provided they "tried to locate the author / creator". The idea stemmed from museums and…

Gary CrabbeMay 7, 2008

Come and get me NFL Copyright Police

You should all know I'm a very vocal advocate for intellectual property rights. I'm also very much againstÂ big mega-corporate conglomerates that use gorilla tactics to to assert ownership over something they don't own or can't control. Â Let's take the NFL for example: Yesterday I watched the game with my…

Gary CrabbeFebruary 4, 2008

Copyright Morality betwixt the generations

Photo: Patron reading books at City Lights Bookstore, North Beach, San Francisco, California Right or Wrong? Stealing, borrowing, retribution, ease, or simply, "everybody does it." Where would you fall on the morality scale?? Examlpe, you check out a book or a CD from a public library. You make 5 copies…

Gary CrabbeJanuary 8, 2008

Copycat copying my copyright copy

Over on one of the nature photography forums today, someone posted a link to COPYSCAPE, a web site that will help you find plagiarized web content. In otherwords, it simply scans html pages for similar words. When I checked out my home page, a good number of web sites came…

Gary CrabbeAugust 14, 2007

Stop That

If you ever find someone using one of your photos (or writings, drawings, music, animation, movie, etc.) without your permission, and you want them to stop, you need to know what to say, and to whom to say it. Plagiarism Today has stock sample Cease & Desist Letters that you…

Gary CrabbeJuly 17, 2007

Upload this…

Coming soon to a Library of Congress near you: Good news for creatives here in the United States; our friendly neighborhood Library of Congress has posted an announcement about the coming availability of electronic registration of your copyright materials. Not only that, but the cost will be lower than traditional…

Gary CrabbeMay 7, 2007

Now presenting ViaTube Squarepants

Busy week on the Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Filing front. Viacom, the media mega-giant that owns MTV & VH1 is suing YouTube for unlawful distribution of their copyrightedÂ material. A year ago, this would probably not have happened as YouTube was just another Internet site on the rise. But now, the supreme…

Gary CrabbeMarch 14, 2007

Ma Bell vs Pa Gates

Batton down those proverbial IP hatches, as AT&T is about to have a Supreme Court face-off with Microsoft over some intellectual property involving every PC sold running Windows software. Microsoft admits infringing on AT&T's patent of a Digital Speech Coder when it developed it's Windows OS, but new issues involve…

Gary CrabbeFebruary 7, 2007

Royalty Free or Royalty Expensive?

So that Royalty Free photo that you got way back when and not sure where... you've used for this and that without much thought, because after all, you were smart and purchased Royalty Free. But are your Royalty Free photos really free to use for anything, anywhere? Probably Not. Did…

Gary CrabbeDecember 11, 2006

Journalist teaches that stealing is OK – especially from schools.

Geez! I was gonna post a photo, but this is much more important. It's been out for the last few weeks that a journalist named Stacey Bradford wrote an article for SmartMoney.com where (s)he lists the Top 5 annoying school costs. (S)he then suggests some money saving tips for each…

Gary CrabbeDecember 5, 2006

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Hey, that’s my picture in your painting! (Derivative Use)

The joys and perils of going viral

Great Photo Business Links 090713

Noteworthy legal tidbits re: books and the NT

Licensing Copyrights & Copywrongs on the Left Coast

How many reasons for a celebration?

Orphan Works – Political Action Made Easy

Come and get me NFL Copyright Police

Copyright Morality betwixt the generations

Copycat copying my copyright copy

Stop That

Upload this…

Now presenting ViaTube Squarepants

Ma Bell vs Pa Gates

Royalty Free or Royalty Expensive?

Journalist teaches that stealing is OK – especially from schools.

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