I have decided to post information today on a slightly off-topic subject, but I think it deserves as much coverage as possible. On October 29th 2009, the UK Government announced that it was planning changes to the current copyright laws, which would effectively allow free and unhindered reproduction of photographs without payment, or credit, on [...]
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Getty Images has just won a High Court copyright infringement case against a UK removals firm, for using a copyrighted image on their company’s web page. The company, J.A. Coles, has agreed to pay £1,953.31 in damages and interest over the use of the picture, plus Getty Images’ legal costs. You can read the full [...]
If you’re putting your images on-line, on flickr.com, for example; you’re making it very easy for image ‘theives’ to download your work and either print it out, or reuse it somewhere else on the web without your permission. The simplest way to help protect your images, (short of not uploading them in the first place [...]
