While Australian policy makers consider adopting a US-style Fair Use exception to copyright infringement, the rule has bizarrely just failed an American photographer in a seemingly straightforward copyright case. This case of Brammer v Violent Hues Productions LLC is another … Continue reading
The KodakOne blockchain image rights management platform will target US basketball and hockey fans at six stadiums, offering people the ability to upload, register, and license photos and videos during sport matches. The Kodak brand is taking a peculiar journey … Continue reading
The NSW Government allegedly owes creators up to $7 million in unpaid fees from a seven-year period, and is heading to the Copyright Tribunal to defend itself. Intellectual property fee collection and advocacy group, Copyright Agency, filed the case against … Continue reading
NSW photographer Harold David won the 2018 National Photographic Portrait Prize People’s Choice Award for his photo of Prime Minister, Bob Hawke, sipping a milkshake. Harold, commissioned by Weekend Australia magazine to shoot the beer sculling PM and his wife, … Continue reading
Kayell face-off…Adobe throws a bone…Sigma circles Sony with lenses…Samyang expands low-price AF range…Dentists’ News… Kayell face-off Australian photographers are spolit for choice when it comes to photographic competitions – provided they can afford the average $25 a pop to enter … Continue reading
Photographers can still participate in the fourth National Family Portrait Month (NFPM), a charity event which aims to raise $20,000 for the Make-A-Wish foundation by photographing families. NFPM is a simple national fundraising effort by photographers, with all money raised … Continue reading
The Ballarat International Foto Biennale (BIFB) has purchased the heritage-listed former Union Bank building for $1.3 million, with plans for transforming the old building into a National Centre of Photography. The 436-square-metre historic building on Lydiard Street South will eventually … Continue reading
Getty and Canon have teamed up to challenge ‘curious‘ Canon camera owners to get into the stock photography business via Getty’s ‘This Is Australia’ Collection. Canon’s support of the project requires all stock photos to be captured on its cameras. … Continue reading
While Nikon ‘designed’ the 46-megapixel back-illuminated CMOS sensor in its best DSLR to date, the D850, it turns out the manufacturing was handled by rival brand, Sony. ChipMod, a Chinese camera modification company, took a scalpel to the D850 and … Continue reading
New York Times freelance photojournalists are fighting against a new rights-grabbing work-for-hire contract, and encouraging other photographers not to sign up. The contract, issued in mid-May, relates to the production of drone footage and specifies that New York Times ‘will … Continue reading
