Earlier this month, the Israeli Government Press Office (GPO) faced an internal revolt. Photographers objected to distributing official photographs of…
Category: law
Can Really Simple Licensing Actually Protect Photography?
Really Simple Licensing (RSL) emerged in 2024 as a technical response to AI companies training on web content without permission.…
Where have the archives of Sygma photographers gone?
This article was first written and published on September 8, 2023, by Michel Puech in French and is reproduced here…
AI licensing for photography
From content creation to copyright management, the integration of AI in the field of photography is rewriting the rules. As…
Generative AI : Do or Die
Understandably, new powerful technologies like generative AI triggers anxiety. But the conversation needs to evolve and move on from the…
Article 17: Are you ready?
6 months away from the full implementation of Article 17, it seems no one is ready. Working models have yet to…
Protection of who?
There is a reason for professional photographers. They document events with the most proximity to the truth. Denying them access…
Thoughts about Deepfakes
The real strength of deepfakes or alternate images is not that they falsify the truth – we have been able…
Certain uses of protected content by online services
The European Directive on Copyright is passed, and along with it, the infamous "Article 13", now Article 17 in the…
And you thought Instagram was safe…
Guest Post by Thierry Secretan, photographer, author, journalist. Although Instagram declares it does not monetize your pictures, it still allows…
