Category: copyright
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The Digital Guarantee Certificate
Is probably not worth the pixels it’s not printed on. The rise of computer-generated images means some people want to have guarantees of authenticity attached to each file. It may be presented as part of an exhibition or as entry to a contest, and the organisers and other worried photographers want to make sure it…
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Copyrighting AI
Everyone says it can’t be done. But what would the Supreme Court know? They are just footling when they say that a written description is not a work of art or a creative endeavour. Have you ever watched sophomores in Creative English 101 as they struggle with the essential angst of the human condition on…
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If You Wish To Be Second-Guessed
Hand out RAW files or negatives. Whenever you make something, someone else will criticise it. If there is any connection, they will do so even more vigorously. A portrait subject has a deep investment in what they observe – because it is rarely what they wish to see. Many of them would like a change…
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Remember To Sue
But not a boy named sue, if you don’t want Johnny Cash’s lawyers on your tail… It is time to get out all your old photographs and start searching the internet to see if any of them are being shown. If they are, look carefully to see if there is any money involved – and…
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The Photographic Essay
Versus the set of prints in an envelope that you have just collected from the chemist. Pass both around – the first will get you famous and the second will get you avoided. Because people really only believe it if they see it on a screen with someone telling them it is important. That’s why…
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This Weblog Is Not Under Copyright
The typographical errors alone should alert you to that. If I was going to be right about anything, it would be the spelinge… But no – this is pure stream-of-unconsciousness stuff, pouring out in a thin muddy trickle, and you are free to plagiarise it as you wish. Steal the images and use the quotes…
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No Cameras Permitted
Also no phones. Or pads of paper and pencils. Also no audio recorders. And some of you in the cheap seats are not permitted to look, either. This is a pop concert – not a court of law. The superstar who will be walking out on the stage and lip syncing to her latest overpriced…
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Video 75 – Part Four – Take Two
Ready when you are, Mr. De Mille. After the video appeared on my home computer screen I needed to make it into something that could be supplied to the dancers. The iMovie program exports your finished composition to mP4 files or a library. I chose the former as I did not want to have a…