Over 2,000 natural sandstone arches give this U.S. National Park in Utah the highest density of natural arches in the world.
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Icon of India, the “Crown of the Palace” is a jewel of Muslim art and one of the New7Wonders of the World. Built 1632–53, the Taj Mahal is an ivory-white marble mausoleum in Agra, India.
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The Golden Pavilion — lined with real gold — graces this Shinto shrine in Kyoto, Japan.
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Thousands of red torii gates cover a two-mile-long path at this Shinto shrine in Kyoto, Japan.
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Want to earn some cash? Kevin Jordan at Improve Photography has a nice article titled 20 Ways to Make a Side Income with your Camera.
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Created in 1759, Kew Gardens comprises 121 hectares of gardens and botanical glasshouses in outer London.
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The most photographed bridge in the world is the icon of San Francisco, USA.
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Henry VIII’s pleasure palace, dating from 1515, lies 13 miles southwest of central London. This photo guide contains:
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Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapa Nui people. One of the most remote inhabited islands in the world, Easter Island is part of Chile, 3,512 kilometres (2,182 mi) away.
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Apple has launched a microsite called How to shoot on iPhone 7. There are 16 videos, each lasting about 30 seconds and presented in a snappy Apple way. You can pick up some quick and easy photo tips.
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The PhotoSecrets logo has been modernized to match a new typeface I’ll be using on future guides. The typeface — called “Montserrat” — has a more rounded and friendly look, a larger x-height (the lower-case letters are closer in size to the uppercase ones), and I’ve dispensed with the italics on Secrets.
For over 20 years (since my first PhotoSecrets guide book in 1997), I’ve been using Helvetica Black for the logo typeface. But now that my website and books are using a more modern typeface (Adobe Source Pro) for the body text, I’m changing the titling logo to match. Designed in 1997 by Julieta Ulanovsky, Montserrat is based on “old posters and signs in the traditional neighborhood of Buenos Aires called Montserrat.”
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— Motherboard
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— Google
Google is pushing for all websites to use HTTPS and is increasingly noting those that do not. Here are the top holdouts:
Websites that are popular but unsecure | ||
|---|---|---|
| Website | Rank U.S. | Rank World |
| EBay | 10 | 36 |
| >CNN (Time Warner) | 25 | 102 |
| Bing (Microsoft) | 26 | 42 |
| >IMDB (Amazon) | 30 | 55 |
| >BBC | 79 | 107 |
| >Go (Walt Disney) | 102 | 400 |
| Selected major websites not using SSL/HTTPS, using ranking from >Alexa, as of May 2, 2017 | ||
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed that copyright law allows photographers to sell photos of people without their permission, as long as the license is for non-commercial use.
“the crucial distinction is ... how [the] copyrighted works are used.”
— >Maloney v T3 Media, 15-55630 (9th Cir. Apr. 5, 2017)
In 2001, student athletes Patrick Maloney and Tim Judge helped Catholic University win their first-ever national championship trophy for men’s basketball. But they were not consulted or compensated when T3Media sold non-commercial licenses to photos of their win on the NCAA website, pictured above. Maloney and Judge sued for publicity-rights and unfair competition under California law. However, in >Maloney v T3 Media (4/5/17), the district and appeals courts held that the federal Copyright Act preempts the athlete’s claims, and the photographer has the exclusive right to distribute the images.
“[A] photo archive that merely sells reproductions of photos of athletes is not infringing the right of publicity of the pictured athletes. Since the vast majority of athletes (both professional and amateur) do not own copyright in such photos, they have no right to control the mere reproduction and sale of their photos per se.”
— >Maloney v T3 Media, 15-55630 (9th Cir. Apr. 5, 2017)
The justices implied that permission is only an issue for commercial use, being use in trade such as on merchandising, or in advertising.
An unrelated photo of an athlete to break this up
The ruling came down to a clash of privacy and copyright. The winner was copyright, since it is a federal right and thereby trumps privacy (publicity) which, if it exists, is generally a state right. The justices noted that copyright gives the photographer the exclusive right to distribute photos, without “interference” from people in the photos.
“[A] publicity-right claim is not preempted when it targets non-consensual use of one’s name or likeness on merchandise or in advertising. But when a likeness has been captured in a copyrighted artistic visual work and the work itself is being distributed for personal use, a publicity-right claim interferes with the exclusive rights of the copyright holder, and is preempted by section 301 of the Copyright Act.”
— >Maloney v T3 Media, 15-55630 (9th Cir. Apr. 5, 2017)
the “core” of the right of publicity is preventing “merchandising [of] a celebrity’s image without that person’s consent”
— Hilton v. Hallmark Cards, 599 F.3d 894, 910 (9th Cir. 2009)
the “core” of the publicity right “is the right not to have one’s identity used in advertising”
— Facenda v. N.F.L. Films, Inc., 542 F.3d 1007, 1031 (3rd Cir. 2008)
“The basis of a right of publicity claim concerns the message—whether the plaintiff endorses, or appears to endorse the product in question.”
— Toney v. L’Oreal USA, Inc., 406 F.3d 905, 910 (7th Cir. 2005)
Source: >Carolyn E. Wright, Photo Attorney, 4/26/17, also see >Rebecca Tushnet, 4/06/17.
