There was an article on the subject of copyright, artists' rights and picture search
engines in the NY Times
on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2001, on Page 1 of the 'Circuits' section.
So far, the courts have ruled against the photographers, but we are still early on in
the appeals process. It
is certainly a subject to stay abreast of.
The possibility of losses is scary,
Harvey Ferdschneider
partner, SKID Photography, NYC
Larry Berman wrote:
> If you're an artist or photographer and have images on your web site......
>
> Some of you may have heard about Google's new search engine for images. As
> they've been indexing the web for content, they have also been indexing the
> web for image files.
>
> http://images.google.com is the new search engine.
>
> Every results page contains the disclaimer, "this image might be copyrighted"
>
> Shows how important it is to put your copyright information on each image.
>
> Here's a post from the Photo District News forum about the issue:
> http://www.pdn-pix.com/ubb/Forum4/HTML/000038.html
>
> Larry
>
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