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GOOGLE and CEPIC

Aug 19. 2010
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ByTom MorganAt last someone has come up with a way of monetizing content on the web.

Google, as ever, has found a way forward, their ubiquitous search engine delivering billions of pair of eyeballs, daily, matching user behavior to content-type. The problem is that the content which Google is monetizing does not belong to Google.

Google displays images in a grid on their Image Search pages. In order to do so, they have to remove the images from their originally published context. They are also selling advertising on these pages (quite clearly commercial activity). This all raises a number of interesting questions, not least around the legal issues that:

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CEPIC endorses conclusions of SABIP Report in the UK

Aug 18. 2010
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SABIP, the Strategic Advisory Board for Intellectual Property Policy, provides strategic and independent advice to the UK Government on intellectual property policy.

On 23 February 2010, SABIP hosted a breakfast panel debate at the British Library on the Google Book Settlement. The event brought together representatives from Google, authors, publishers, the European Commission and stakeholders from the UK creative community. CEPIC member's BAPLA (Simon Cliffe and Linda Royles), as a representative of the UK picture library community, as well as CEPIC (Christina Vaughan) and ICOMP (David Wood) took part in the meeting.

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About Google Images and Image Search Ads

Aug 18. 2010
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BySylvie FodorTechnology is out there enabling wonderful images to be seen. Google Images shows us how to make money with images, not by producing and selling them, but by showing them at random next to an advertisement and selling the advertisement.

Last month, Google announced the launch of an improved image search system and a new Expanded Image Search Ads.
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The Image Search includes a number of improvements for web users :

  • Larger thumbnail preview
  • Live enlargements of images
  • Denser layout of images with up to 1,000 images on a single scrollable page
  • Better navigation

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CEPIC Statement on the Google Books Settlement Agreement 2009

Oct 30. 2009
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CEPIC’s membership is directly affected by the Settlement.

CEPIC’s membership is directly affected by the Settlement as millions of books digitized by Google include photographs. A small part of our members licence illustrations for children’s books – included in the Agreement – other will represent photographers who hold copyright in books. Sooner or later, Google will pursue all photographic rights and work out its conditions, as has been done for writers’ rights in the present Settlement.

CEPIC is not opposed to general or special agreements between Google and libraries or universities.

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Orphan Works EC Hearing

Oct 30. 2009
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CEPIC spoke at the Public Hearing on Orphan Works on October 26, 2009. The hearing took place at the European Commission.

"The aim of this hearing is to gather further evidence on orphan works and how their digitisation and dissemination can best be managed in full respect of copyright rules. This hearing will be a follow-up to the Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy (COM(2008) 466/3)."

Click here for more information on the hearing and the speeches:
http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/copyright/copyright-infso/copyright-...

"In the image industry, we see that we must work towards the best possible solution:

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CEPIC's Response to the Green Paper on Copyright in the Knowledge Economy (2008)

Oct 30. 2008
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Submission from CEPIC e.e.i.g.

CEPIC is an international federation of picture agencies and libraries, founded in 1993 and registered in Paris in 1999 as a European Economic Group. It obtained observer status at the World Intellectual Property Organisation in 1997 and is a member of IPTC since 2005. It has participated in many EU conferences and follows EU legislation. CEPIC’s membership includes not only over 1,000 large and smaller stock photo libraries and major news agencies but also art galleries and museums in 19 European countries.

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Response to Green Paper on Copyright & Neighbouring Rights in the Information Society (1995)

Dec 30. 2007
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Response of the Coordination of European Picture Agencies to the Green Paper

Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society presented by the Commission

General preliminary remarks

CEPIC was founded in Berlin in 1993 as a European Economic Interest Group in accordance with the Council of the European Community Decree. CEPIC comprises 11 national organisations in 8 EU and EFTA countries. It therefore represents the interests of 650 agencies and 30,000 photographers across Europe.