A bit of relief for Media Professionals

Media professionals are always in great need of innovative material for editorial usage—stills, motion, sound files—and they need it quickly. Often, as we all know (with a sigh) the resources available are beyond our budgets and the available offerings fall short of the creative vision we have. Increasingly, we are seeing distributors of visual/auditory media …


DMCA Takedown Notices Require Fair Use Considerations

Reprinted with the kind permission of the DMLA Nancy Wolff and Josh Wolkoff, Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard, LLP Lenz v. Universal Music Corp., Case Nos. 13-16106 and 13-16107, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was enacted in 1998 to address in part issues …


What do all these pictures mean, anyway? And whose are they?

In a world where we now upload 1.8 Billion photos a day, maybe it’s time to take stock of all things ”photographic” and what those little image suckers – both professional, amateur and press – might actually mean in the scheme of things; as our high art, media and pop culture changes; both aesthetically and …


Dangerous Little Knowledge

reposted from The Illusion of More with the kind permission of David Newhoff Not surprisingly, friends contact me from time to time with copyright-related questions. I’m careful not to give definitive answers to most of these, but I can usually point them in the right direction toward a solution.  Very recently, a dear friend (let’s …