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Copyright Act Review by Dominic Lee

Tuesday, Jul 5th, 2011 | Source: Priory Studios

© Copyright Act Review by Dominic Lee Copyright law under review. I attended the Copyright Review Committee public meeting in Trinity College today #CRC11 While this was a “Review”, it quickly became clear to me that the committee’s agenda is to attempt to ...

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Dublin Architects O’Donnell + Tuomey at centre of copyright abuse claim

Posted on Monday, Mar 7th, 2011 by Alan Murphy

Dublin Architects O'Donnell + Tuomey have found themselves at the centre of a copyright controversy as a result of claims made by Canadian street photographer  John Goldsmith. When asked to comment to photographers.ie the architects firm, who have won many RIAI awards ...

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Give And Take

Thursday, Nov 4th, 2010 | Source: The Circle of Confusion With Peter & Roger

Social media channels have become vital marketing tools for photographers. Yet as we discussed in episode 6, photographers need to be careful when choosing a platform from which to broadcast their photography to the internet audience. Unwittingly, you could be ...

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When copyright is enough.

Posted on Sunday, Aug 29th, 2010 by Alan Murphy

I recently blogged about how sometimes ownership isn't the only factor photographers must consider when selling images to media groups. I have just heard of a case taken by a Dublin photographer against a Sunday newspaper which used his work ...

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When copyright isn’t enough

Posted on Saturday, Jul 17th, 2010 by Alan Murphy

I got a call from Bray based social photographer Charlie Sharkey recently. The Sunday Independent was looking for photographs of Sean Fitzpatrick and his wife. Charlie had a suitable picture but was concerned about releasing the pictures. I started by ...

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Moral Rights

Friday, Jul 9th, 2010 | Source: Pete Jenkins Photo Thoughts

 “It is a logical and legal absurdity to talk of licensing works whose authors cannot be identified while there are still significant groups of authors who do not have the right to be identified.”This was Viscount Bridgeman, speaking in the ...

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Stop43 organisation makes new proposal on Copyright

Posted on Wednesday, May 19th, 2010 by Alan Murphy

Stop43 propose to allow “cultural use” of so-called orphan works and for this cultural use to switch all other uses and users to “known” works, to stimulate cultural and economic activity to the benefit of everyone. To enable this they propose ...

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BBC Open the Copyright Battle

Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 | Source: Pete Jenkins Photo Thoughts

   Here we are at the start of a new Parliament, and we can be forgiven for thinking that all that nastiness with regard to our copyright and Clause 43 is long gone and behind us.  But no, regrettably that is ...

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David Lammy at SABIP

Thursday, Mar 25th, 2010 | Source: Pete Jenkins Photo Thoughts

I would like to share with you this U-tube coverage of the event that was held last Tuesday morning (22nd March) by SABIP (Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property) which advises the Intellectual Property Office. ...

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Stop section 43…or the horse gets it, and so do you…

Posted on Monday, Mar 22nd, 2010 by Alan Murphy

There is legislation going through the UK Parliament which ALL photographers should be aware of.  The bill, entitled the Digital Economy Bill, will affect photographers copyright.  Here is a link where you can read more on the law and what ...

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Orphan Works Countdown

Tuesday, Mar 2nd, 2010 | Source: Pete Jenkins Photo Thoughts

It has been a while since I wrote in this blog. Things have been very busy one way or another.The Orphan Works debate has been increasing in intensity, especially now as it seems to be all coming to a ...

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Police release film of suspects’ ‘terror targets’

Wednesday, Dec 16th, 2009 | Source: Pete Jenkins Photo Thoughts

Police release film of suspects' 'terror targets' I have been keeping out of the debate on Police stopping photographers under the Terrorism act section 43 and 44 partly because there are already others out there doing a great job, and ...

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© the way ahead: A Copyright Strategy for the Digital Age II

Thursday, Nov 19th, 2009 | Source: Pete Jenkins Photo Thoughts

Part 2 of an analysis Looking at the main part of the document Indented paragraphs in italics are quotes from the document Page 10 What is Copyright ...

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© the way ahead: A Copyright Strategy for the Digital Age

Wednesday, Nov 18th, 2009 | Source: Pete Jenkins Photo Thoughts

For some time now we have been waiting for the Government to ‘announce’ its strategy with regard to copyright and orphan works. There has been much debate about the efforts in the United States to introduce an Orphan Works ...

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Victory for the Contract Photographers

Sunday, Sep 27th, 2009 | Source: Pete Jenkins Photo Thoughts

Great news that GNM management have admitted their mistake.Photographers are relieved that the Guardian News Media management have accepted the error of their planned attempt to deprive their freelance contributors of re-use fees announced on FridayThe hard work of NUJ’s ...

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