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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 Crabbe
June 23, 2008
CopyrightLegal

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 Crabbe
May 7, 2008
CopyrightNewsworthy

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 against big mega-corporate conglomerates that use gorilla tactics to to assert ownership over something they don't own or can't control.   Let's take the NFL for example: Yesterday I watched the game with my…
Gary Crabbe
February 4, 2008
CopyrightPeoplePhotos

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 Crabbe
January 8, 2008
CopyrightRants and Raves

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 Crabbe
August 14, 2007
Copyright

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 Crabbe
July 17, 2007
CopyrightNewsworthy

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 Crabbe
May 7, 2007
CopyrightNewsworthy

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 copyrighted 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 Crabbe
March 14, 2007
CopyrightNewsworthy

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 Crabbe
February 7, 2007
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