Introducing the next generation of DAM software.
This blog has been quiet, but that’s not because I have been slacking off. For the last year or so, I have been hard at work bringing a new vision
November 26, 2020
Privacy, Rights and the EU
I’ve said recently that the extent of social media licenses will be probably tied to issues of privacy, and that it’s likely the EU will take the lead. In the
May 14, 2014
The Fire Hose
Dateline SXSW – I’ve written over the last year about how Instagram is creating a commercial service to supply photos for editorial and marketing purposes. The legal foundation was laid in
March 17, 2014
Getty did what?
Getty images are now free. Okay, so I’m trolling. They are not “free.” But editorial and academic uses of unwatermarked images on blogs can now be done for free, as
March 5, 2014
David Byrne and the Independent Creator
I’m peeling this post off of a discussion I’m having on Facebook with Leora Kornfeld, who writes about Disintermediation as a Harvard Research Associate. I think this message is an
October 16, 2013
The other shoe dropping
Late breaking news: Facebook has delayed the implementation of the new policy. Send your comments to Facebook today. Link at the bottom of this post. Facebook has just claimed the
August 30, 2013
The Instagram Papers
DAM Useful Publishing and ASMP have just released The Instagram Papers, a collection of essays about the current Instagram Terms of Use, and the rights that they give the company.
August 15, 2013
Smart Web Images
We’re starting to see some interesting new technologies for adding connected intelligence to images published on the web. It’s now possible to attach information and other links to images that
May 30, 2013
Instagram Terms – Still Terrible
Instagram made a big deal of backpedaling through the PR storm it created with the proposed Terms of Service (TOS) changes. They claim to be really sorry, and that they
January 2, 2013
Instagram creates terrible new user agreement
I’m generally not alarmist about web rights boilerplate, since there is often a lot of ambiguity. Nothing ambiguous about this. (Item 2 in Rights, emphasis added.) Some or all of the
December 18, 2012