EPUK: Photographer wins copyright infringement case against Mirror Group Newspapers

Photography site EPUK publishes a report by law firm Swan Turton on a celebrity photographer’s copyright victory over Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN).

“In a judgment issued on October 16 which has potentially important ramifications for the photography industry, the High Court held that Daily Mirror publisher MGN Ltd had infringed copyright in photographs included in back copies of newspapers it was making available online to paid subscribers.”

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RIA Novosti: Russian media drafts law opposing illegal content sharing

(From last week via Adrian Monck’s blog) Russia’s leading news organisations are proposing draft legislation that would change the legal status of news reports to goods, with fines imposed for publication out of copyright.

“The main goal of the proposed amendments to a number of laws is to turn news into goods which must be paid for,” RIA Novosti editor-in-chief Svetlana Mironyuk said in the report.

Russia’s media landscape is beginning to address the issue of copyright breaches online – but will the country learn from the attempts of other states to tackle this problem?

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BJP: Guardian in alleged photography rights grab

The Guardian is going to demand increased usage rights for commissioned images, according to this report.

The paper will reportedly ask for full and future usage rights, but with no extra compensation.

A Guardian spokeswoman said the matter was still under discussion.

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Apartment Therapy: NYTimes calls off take down notice for blog network

Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan, co-founder of Apartment Therapy, confirms that the New York Times has withdrawn a take down notice for articles and images used by the blog network.

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MediaGuardian: OMC09: Reform UK copyright, says Google

Allow limited use of copyrighted work to individuals looking to create new content, Richard Sargeant, Google UK’s public policy manager, told the Oxford Media Convention.

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MediaPost: Film critic’s YouTube channel shut down over copyright allegations

Kevin Lee’s use of short film clips as part of his video reviews would normally be regarded as fair use, but several complaints about his channel forced YouTube to protect itself under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.

“[I]t seems as if perfectly lawful clips are being silenced at the whim of copyright owners who don’t like the thought of anyone other than themselves posting content,” writes MediaPost’s Wendy Davis.

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Tip of the day from Journalism.co.uk – Think about copyright

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Bloomberg: Google loses copyright cases in Germany

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Folio: Publishers settle copyright case against Mygazines.com

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