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This Week on the Copyright Alliance Blog - Week of April 5, 2010
Friday, April 09, 2010
April 8th – LIVE from APA: Stories of Photo Infringement
Patrick Ross, Executive Director, The Copyright Alliance
DENVER — Lucinda Dugger and I spoke before a gathering of photographers here at a dinner sponsored by one of our members, the Advertising Photographers of America, and we were graced with the presence of Karin Sullivan, an accomplished IP attorney here in Denver. Karin, naturally, was the popular panelist, fielding a ton of detailed questions. So as not to put her in the position of offering legal advice through q&a, she asked that the questions be “hypothetical.” There were a lot of “hypothetical” horror stories.
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April 8th – Visual Artists Sue Google
Patrick Ross, Executive Director, The Copyright Alliance
If you get your hands on 18 million books you don’t own, make full copies of them, and look to profit from them online, expect a bit of legal trouble. Google’s latest headache is from photographers and illustrators. You go, visual artists!
Read Complete Commentary: http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/2010/04/visual-artists-sue-google/
April 9th – LIVE from AWP: Michael Chabon and the Benjamins
Patrick Ross, Executive Director, The Copyright Alliance
DENVER — This is our second year participating in the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP) Annual Conference (http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2010awpconf.php), and a true highlight of this show occurred last night when Pulitzer-Prize winning (http://www.barclayagency.com/chabon.html) author Michael Chabon (http://www.michaelchabon.com/Michael_Chabon/Home.html) addressed a ballroom filled with writers to its absolute brim…
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