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Settled out-of-court: the model, the album cover, and the polaroid
Over a year ago there was a bit of a hoo-haa involving the band Vampire Weekend, the photographer Tod Brody, and the former model Ann Kirsten Kennis. In a nutshell? Brody licensed an image of Kennis...
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Model release grief for Match.com
Oh dear. Another photographer and two companies with teams of lawyers who should know better are in hot water over the unauthorised use of someone’s image. This time it’s in Georgia; the...
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More murk at Olympus
The bigwigs at Olympus were probably hoping that the investigation they commissioned into the case of higher-than-expected payments to merger brokers would uncover a sloppy but somehow explicable...
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Pixiq.com site goes down, leaving authors and readers in the lurch
Sterling Publishing apparently shut down the popular photography blogging site Pixiq today, only a few days after serving notice to all their bloggers, stating that the staff would no longer be...
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Pixiq.com goes down: the response from Sterling Publishing
The decision by Sterling Publishing, a subsidiary of Barnes and Noble, to close its popular photography blogging platform Pixiq on Friday 10 May, has been met with shock, surprise, and consternation by...
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Some very odd goings-on at Olympus
Oh Olympus, you’re supposed to be in the news for developing exciting camera technology, not for sacking your newly appointed British CEO, issuing contradictory statements about financial...
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The Flickr Spectaculr: what’s right, and what’s wrong
‘Make Flickr awesome again.’ That was the Internet’s message to Marissa Mayer when she was appointed CEO of Yahoo! last year. Last night’s announcement of a new-look Flickr with a new business model...
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Olympus getting out of cheap compact cameras? Good!
The news that Olympus is ditching their compact camera division this week caused quite a stir, but I can’t help but think that the camera manufacturer is on to something. I’ve long thought that...
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Fujifilm and Panasonic come together to create a thinner, more sensitive...
The development of the imaging chip has focused overwhelmingly on resolution, and the desire to cram more and more pixels onto smaller and smaller sensors. However, improvements to image quality can...
View ArticleWhat’s in a name? Pentax Ricoh to become Ricoh
From 1 August 2013, the Pentax Ricoh Imaging Company Ltd will be no more. Instead, it will be the Ricoh Imaging Company Ltd. It took a little while in coming, but a new name wasn’t wholly unexpected...
View ArticleFaceifi lets you identify people using photos
‘Why can’t I find out more about somebody from just a photograph?’ That was the question that started Faceifi, which is a bit like a social directory where you identify people using images of them...
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CSR Pictures, a stock agency devoted to corporate social responsibility...
There are hundreds of stock agencies out there, so if you want to break into the market, you have be certain of at least two things; first, that you’re providing a service that buyers are demanding and...
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Canon launches its Student Network to get in with the pros of tomorrow
In an attempt to help the next generation of photographers build on both their creative and business skills (and maybe get their claws into them as camera users), Canon has launched the Canon Student...
View ArticleAdobe’s security breach in October was far more serious than believed
Adobe announced that it had suffered a security breach in early October that had resulted in the compromise of approximately 3 million customers’ data as well as the loss of some proprietary source...
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Auto-playing videos come to Facebook
Oh joy! Facebook has embarked on a steady roll-out programme to bring auto-playing videos to all of its users. It started with Android devices, progressed to iPhones, and now the team at TechCrunch has...
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It’s all about communication: Instagram unveils Instagram Direct
When Instagram sent out paper invitations to its press event held in New York today, there was, naturally, speculation regarding what the square-picture-sharing-service might announce. Might it be...
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Flickr has a new embed feature. Expect uproar.
In another update that aims to make Flickr a more fully web-integrated photo-sharing experience, it has rolled out a revised photo embed function. This one should make it easier to add full-bleed...
View ArticleWhat’s the situation with the Snapchat hack?
The Snapchat security vulnerability is a story that has quietly grumbled on over the Christmas and New Year period, but is hopefully reaching some kind of resolution, at least for the bugs highlighted...
View ArticleSnapchat spam gets an apology
Following revelations over Christmas of a potential software vulnerability in its ‘Find Friends’ service that could allow its users’ names to be linked with their phone numbers and a subsequent...
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Google’s just made it easier to search for images according to licence type
‘I found it on Google, so that makes it alright!’ No, no, and no. Just because you found an image on the Intergoogles does not make it free to use. How many times have we been through this? I’ve lost...
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