May 2nd, 2012
Chad Jones asks: I had my images stolen of a 12 million dollar malibu home by the Daily Mail UK a few months ago. They stole the images from the SoCal MLS. The image size has gone up on all the listings uploaded to the MLS. On top of sites like realtor.com creating one click videos and what [...]
April 18th, 2012
Vail, CO Realtor and photographer John Nilsson recently used the new Lightroom 4 book creation feature to create a Blurb book that is a compilation of work the has done in the last four years for local Vail brokers. A nice piece of work John! John posed the following legal questions: Do I need to get past or [...]
July 6th, 2011
Everyone is stoked about Google+ and it looks like it has some very cool features. But, Scott Bourne, over at photofocus.com, has a great article that professional photographers should read before posting photos on Google or FaceBook. Were you aware that when you post photos on Google and FaceBook you are granting them rights to pretty much [...]
February 14th, 2011
Over the years we’ve had a lot of heated discussions here about ethics of image modification in the context of real estate photography. I think the subject is important enough that I have a separate page dedicated to summarizing the consensus that has evolved out of these discussions over the years. Here is a general outline [...]
August 11th, 2010
Iran Watson started a thread in the PFRE flickr group about shooting acreage so I jumped in and described how on a large land listing we had I had used Photoshop to make a put a transparent surveyors map layer over a Google satellite map layer so that buyers could see the vegetation, the streets and how the newly subdivided [...]
August 19th, 2009
Thanks to Scott for pointing out a great story of how you can stand up to unauthorized uses of your images without spending big money on legal support. Here is the story in the words of the photographer Christopher Boffoli. And here is Carolyn Wright’s legal analysis.
July 15th, 2009
While cleaning up the blog I ran across the summary of a series of posts and discussions from two years ago on the subject of ethics. Two years ago this was a fairly heated discussion with opinions all over the map so what I did was attempt to summarize the general consensus of how readers [...]
June 25th, 2008
Via: Thomas Bliss’s IAAP site and Carolyn Wright’s Photo Attorney blog: “Liz Ordonez-Dawes, an accomplished architectural and interior design photographer, recently was awarded more than $12 million dollars for copyright infringement of seven photographs. In brief, the court found that the defendants distributed Ms. Ordonez-Dawes’ photos of high-end houses to various third parties for advertisements [...]
June 19th, 2008
About a month ago I did a post highlighting some background on the The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008 legislation pending in the house and senate. Thanks to Carolyn Wright over at photoattorney.com I just noticed that there is a petition to sign registering sentiment against this legislation.
May 30th, 2008
If you haven’t noticed Congress is on it’s way to passing some legislation that will radically change the way copyright law works. Photographers owning copyrighted material will be effected by these laws if passed. I suggest taking the time to understand what is about to happen with copyright and if you don’t like it, express [...]
