Copyright Law

"The company?s main selling point is the licensing of high-quality images from professional photographers around the world"

Posted on January 21, 2008
From today's New York Times:"Getty Images, the world?s biggest supplier of pictures and video to media and advertising companies, has put itself on the auction block and could fetch more than $1.5 billion ?. Final bids are due by the end of the month ?...

"A great step forward"

Posted on January 21, 2008
Jason Kottke gives thumb's up to the Library of Congress's new Flickr program: "The LoC's extensive online image repository has always been exceedingly difficult to use so making images available on the easy-to-use Flickr is a great step forward."

"A haggle over insurance, really" (UPDATED)

Posted on January 19, 2008
Fast Company magazine takes a look at the Frank Gehry-MIT lawsuit.UPDATE: More here.

"The current stipulation does not address any question of title"

Posted on January 18, 2008
Bloomberg's Philip Boroff reports that "Lawrence Salander ... will allow his bankrupt gallery to move 231 artworks from his two homes to the gallery and to a warehouse for safekeeping. The agreement was disclosed in a [bankruptcy court] hearing yesterday ...

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"The real magic comes when the power of the Flickr community takes over"

Posted on January 17, 2008
From the New York Times:"As part of an effort to expand access to its photograph collections and tap the collective knowledge of user-generated content, the Library of Congress Wednesday launched a pilot project with photo-sharing site Flickr to publish some 3,000 photos...

More on Copyright Class Actions

Posted on January 17, 2008
Robert Bernstein and Robert Clarida have more [$] on the Second Circuit's Electronic Databases Litigation decision (mentioned earlier here): "the majority held that ... all copyright infringement claims within the certified class must have been registered prior to commencement of the suit...

"A deeply unsatisfying system"

Posted on January 17, 2008
Derek Fincham comments on the Peter Nahum piece I mentioned last night: "The clear indication is that there needs to be a radical shift in the way the art market guarantees authenticity and title. Either a centralized database, or some kind of title insuring mechanism is sorely needed to prevent this kind of fraud...

"The point about the Greenhalgh case ... is that what seems to be a rock solid provenance can distract the expert?s eye from careful assessment"

Posted on January 16, 2008
Dealer Peter Nahum tells of his personal brush with the Greenhalghs: "How I was duped by the Bolton forgers."

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