National Geographic takes hard line and refuses to provide any compensation to freelance photographers for use of their work on new CD-ROM project. Photographers and agents up in arms.
It is illegal to photocopy sections of books for sale to students. U.S. Supreme Court upholds 6th Circuit Court decision in Michigan.
Digimarc announces a tool that can be used in conjunction with their Digimarc watermarking software to help a photographer track usage of their images on the World Wide Web.
A system of unique identifiers that can be used to watermark images is developed by the Association of Photographers in the UK.
National Geographic will release discs showing every article and picture that has appeared in the magazine in over 100 years.
In the current environment, VOLUME production of stock photos can lead to disaster, not profits. The issue is examined from many perspectives.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that commercial exploitation of copyrighted materials by a Michigan copy shop did not constitute ''fair use'' was upheld when the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear the case. Articles and book chapters may be used in university coursepacks only with permission of the copyright holder.
Microsoft tries to get all rights when hiring writers to work for their network. The have six different versions of their ''standard contract'' with various levels of rights give up according to ASJA.
Freelancers sue AP alleging AP has historically and illegally infringed their copyrights.
British corporations taking over the stock business with new acquisitions. Getty acquires Liaison. Visual Communications Group is looking for a major U.S. agency to purchase. Two largest sellers of stock in the world.