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How journalists behave when your video goes viral

How journalists behave when your video goes viral [http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/collegeofjournalism/entries/c9b6250d-6557-4968-b0ce-e6eef3e04dfb] Journalist Marc Settle found his video suddenly of great interest to a wider new media than just his employer, the BBC: > Broadly, their behaviour fell in to one of three categories: a)

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Tired of "aggregators" stealing his pics, a photographer sues

One photographer has had enough of a viral content site nicking his photos [http://petapixel.com/2015/07/31/this-is-what-it-looks-like-to-sue-a-viral-clickbait-site-for-photo-copyright-infringement/?curator=onemanandhisblog] : > California-based photographer Jeff Werner has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against the popular website ViralNova for publishing (and profiting from) his photos without his permission. Theft is

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Pando's nicking my photos again

Here we go again. In the past I’ve had to call Pando out for reusing my photos without attribution and payment. The last time they ‘fessed up, coughed up and I donated the proceeds to Cancer Research: > I work with PandoDaily on the financial side of the business.

Flickr embraces the public domain

This is an interesting move: > But we’ve heard from our community that we’re missing two important designations: Public Domain and Creative Commons 0 (CC0). Many members of our community want to be able to upload images that are no longer protected by copyright and correctly tag them

YouTube celebs: the consumer mags of the future?

A music label is suing YouTube star Michelle Phan [http://michellephan.com] for using its music [http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-28418449]: > The label and its publishing arm claim she has used about 50 of their songs without permission in her YouTube videos and on her own website.

Automattic

Automattic & a student journalist sue PR for DCMA takedown damages

Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, is teaming with a student journalist to sue a “Straight Rights” organisation’s press officer for abusing the DMCA takedown process [http://torrentfreak.com/wordpress-demands-10000-dmca-takedown-abuse-140615/]: > Hotham wrote an article about “Straight Pride UK” which included a comment he received from the organization’s

Twitpic's attempted copyright grab?

Twitpic becomes the latest in a long line of web companies playing fast and loose with their users’ copyright: > The first part highlighted is a clause seemingly denying anyone who uploads a picture to Twitpic the media exploitation rights for that picture; it specifically targets those businesses who might

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