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Jan 17. 2012
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The Swiss National Association of Picture Libraries (SAB) invites everybody who is active in the picture indusrty to join their monthly meeting which features this time a professional talk on digital copyright.

Attonery Herbert Pfortmüller and his team will speak about the coypright of images. Topic related questions can be emailed to info@sab-photo.ch. The meeting will be held in Zurich on Wednesday, 1st February 2012 starting from 17:00 - 19:30.

Location
Restaurant Weisser Wind
Weggenstube 1. Stock
Oberdorfstrasse 20
Zürich
http://www.weisserwind.ch

Prices

  • SAB Members: free
  • Non Members: 80 €
  • Students: 20 €

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Copyright in Portrait Photographs

Dec 06. 2011
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ByCharles SwanThe European Court of Justice delivered a judgment in the important case PAINER v STANDARD VERLAGS GmbH

The European Court of Justice last week delivered its judgment in this important case for photographers, largely upholding the Advocate General’s Opinion reported in detail in our April 2011 bulletin.

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Introduction of Protect IP Act

Nov 02. 2011
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The much anticipated version of the U.S. House of Representatives rogue websites bill was introduced two weeks ago.

It has been introduced by the following Congressional Representatives:
* House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas)
* Ranking Member John Conyers (D-Mich.)
* IP Subcommittee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.)
* Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) ay

The following Representatives cosponsored the bill:
* Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.)
* Rep. Mary Bono-Mack (R-Calif.)
* Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio)

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Finding the Author is not a Lost Cause

Oct 18. 2011
01:10
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On 12th October, within the framework of the Frankfurt Bookfair, CEPIC and EVA addressed the issue of Orphan Works.

Cultural heritage institutions scan and digitize their collections to give access to the public. A growing number of images is concerned. Prior authorization is needed but not all rights holders can be tracked.

The legal back ground was explained by prof. Dr. Dreier (KIT). The ARROW tool, a network supporting the search, was demonstrated by Paola Mazzuchi (ARROW).

The CEPIC presentation which outlines CEPIC's position on Arrow Plus may be downloaded here.

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Literary Property Rights Suit Against HathiTrust and Five U.S. Universities

Oct 11. 2011
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U.K. Society Representing 50,000 Book Authors, Along With Canadian, Norwegian, and Swedish Writers' Unions, Joins Literary Property Rights Suit Against HathiTrust and Five U.S. Universities

  • This is a press release from PRNewswire published on October 7th 2011

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How Image Tracking Technology May Be Used in OW Legislation

Oct 10. 2011
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ByGetty ImagesGetty Images and PicScout share with CEPIC their Policy Position Statement in relation to the Hargreaves Report and the Response of the UK Government to that Report.

  1. They present their reservations with regards to the establishment of the Digital Copyright Exchange ("DCE") as proposed by the Hargreaves Report
  2. They show how existing effective tracking technology makes ECL in the management of "visual orphan works"redundant

The second document is a powerpoint presentation outlining the main elements of the Hargreaves Report. The presentation was made by Lawyer Lisa Peets at the IP Guest Session organised by ICOMP in London on 8 September 2011.

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Finding the image author - A lost cause?

Sep 28. 2011
07:09
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On 12th October, CEPIC and EVA will be at the Frankfurt Bookfair to address the issue of Orphan Works.

Cultural heritage institutions scan and digitize their collections to give access to the public. A growing number of images is concerned. Prior authorization is needed but not all rights holders can be tracked. The legal back ground will be explained and the picture agencies’ and authors’ perspective. The ARROW tool, a network supporting the search, will be demonstrated.

  • It is a short presentation in English that will be held from 17:30 to 18:00 at the Frankfurt Bookfair, Hall 4.2 P457, Hot Spot Professional & Scientific Information

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German Seminar on Copyright, Contract Law and Press Law organised by BVPA

Sep 25. 2011
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The German Association of Picture Agencies (BVPA) is happy to announce a German seminar on copyright, contract law and press law moderated by Prof Dr Christian Donle

  • The seminar will be held on 25 November 2011 in Hamburg
  • For further information please find a German press release attached or check the BVPA website

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Orphan Works: Proposal for a directive

Aug 16. 2011
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On Tuesday 24 May, the European Commission has adopted a Proposal for a Directive on certain permitted uses of orphan works with a view to establishing common rules on the digitisation and online display of so-called orphan works.

Orphan works are works like books, newspaper and magazine articles, and films that are still protected by copyright but whose authors are not known or cannot be located or contacted to obtain copyright permissions. Orphan works are part of the collections held by European libraries that might remain untouched if no common rules are developed to make their digitisation and online display legally possible. Common rules on how to deal with such works are therefore necessary in order to proceed with large-scale digitisation projects, such as the Commission’s Europeana portal.

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Banned and readmitted: Belgian newspaper websites in Google Search index

Aug 15. 2011
11:08
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Google banned Belgian newspapers both from Google News and Google Search after the Belgian publishers collecting society, Copiepresse, supported by a number of journalists and photographers, filed and won a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google in 2006 and 2011.

However, after some negotiations, Google has now announced that it will re-index the pages in their search engine.

Copiepresse accused Google of unauthorised listing of the newspapers in their news search and for making profit out of it. Furthermore, the cache function allowed users to preview content that has already been taken off the actual website. The claim has been admitted by the court on May 5th, 2011.

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