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Google+ Now Preserves Copyright Metadata
One month ago we that all metadata, including copyright metadata, was deleted from the images displayed on Google+ pages. We discovered during our investigation that Google+ did preserve the metadata on its servers, but by removing it from the displayed images it rendered them as orphan works. The only official comment that we know Google made about this came from the Google+ Photo Community Manager, Brian Rose, who said that displayed images were "optimised for consumption", i.e. metadata is deleted. As far as we know Google made no other announcement about this, but yesterday we heard from another photographer that things seemed to have changed recently.
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New campaign to embed information permanently in digital media
Media release of 13 December 2011
A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but permanently attached descriptions are worth a lot more as photos travel through the digital world. A campaign has been launched now to embed descriptive and rights information in digital media and to retain it during the whole life cycle.
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Sony World Photography Awards 2012
Last Call for Entries
Today, Wednesday 07 December, the World Photography Organisation, issues a last call for entries for the 2012 Sony World Photography Awards, the world's most comprehensive photography competition. The deadline for entries is Wednesday 04 January 2012 giving photographers from across the world just four weeks left to enter.
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BBC Hanging Committee: Waive Your Moral Rights
In conjunction with Lucky Day Productions, part of the Zodiak Media Group, BBC Two has commissioned a new 10 part series of 'Show Me the Monet'. This contest will follow the fortunes of artists from the UK as they compete for a place at the 'Show Me the Monet' exhibition which will be held at the Royal College of Art in London. The works will be for sale at the exhibition, where, according to the Lucky Day Productions blurb, members of the public and art world can bid to buy the works.
NB! Due to discussions with Lucky Day Productions most of the complaints raised in this story have been resolved. The current situation can be read in the report entitled .
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Artists Hate Copyright says BBC Presenter
A BBC program called Click (@BBCClick) was brought to our attention by a member of Stop43. It was originally broadcast on 22 November 2011.
It debated the fact that copyright is undermined by pirates and other ne'er do wells, but amazingly managed to do so without once using the word 'pirate' or even to discuss the immorality of piracy or copyright infringement. The thrust of the program is that the current problems facing artists are entirely the fault of a) the copyright system, b) lawyers c) artists, and finally d) the United States.
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