The Burning Man Organization (BMO) is calling for community feedback on its camera policy, including its approach to image rights. The section reads as follows: “Use of Images” I UNDERSTAND AND ACCEPT THAT NO USE OF IMAGES, FILM, OR VIDEO OBTAINED AT THE EVENT MAY BE MADE WITHOUT PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION FROM BURNING MAN, OTHER [...]

It’s ladies night at the Forty Forty nightclub in Santo Domingo, R.D., but all’s not well stateside for its MLB superstar owner David Ortiz. Earlier Thursday, music mogul Jay-Z filed suit against the slugger for use of the ‘Forty Forty’ nightclub name and fortyforty.net. The complaint, filed in the New York Southern District Court, alleges [...]

The New York Times is reporting that several Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) patrons have been removed from the gallery for “improperly touching” performers in the Marina Abramovic retrospective, “The Artist is Present.” The retrospective features performers, some nude, re-enacting performance pieces by Abramovic. I have to echo the sentiment of one of the performers [...]

NPR recently featured the band Pomplamoose on its weekend edition of All Things Considered. The San Francisco duo, comprised of Jack Conte and Nataly Dawn, has become a YouTube phenomenon for its vibrant cover songs. One such example is the Pomplamoose cover of Lady Gaga’s Telephone: Apart from garnering millions of views since launching PomplamooseMusic, [...]

Today is World’s Fair Use Day (WFUD), “a free, all-day celebration of the doctrine of fair use: the legal right that allows innovators and creators to make particular uses of copyrighted materials. WFUD will take place at the Newseum in Washington D.C. on Tuesday January 12, 2010.” More here.

A look back at an argument that erupted at the Independent Film Channel’s (IFC) 2007 New York Film Festival Press Conference for the Brian De Palma film Redacted. De Palma bashes Magnolia Pictures owner Mark Cuban for redacting a photo montage at the close of the film that  “disturbed” Cuban. The film itself is a [...]

The heirs of George and Ira Gershwin have filed multiple suits (one in Federal court, the other in a Los Angeles Superior Court) disputing foreign royalties which represent roughly $200,000 of a catalog yielding $8 million a year. More from LA Times. Firebowl makers feud over the validity of copyright, ability to compete in the [...]

Shepard Fairey, the artist responsible for the iconic ‘Hope’ poster of President Obama during last year’s election, admitted to using the same photo as alleged by the Associated Press (AP). Since his suit for declaratory judgment and the counter-suit by the AP, Fairey has argued that the original  photo in question differed. Apparently, the artist [...]