Comments on: Life Delivers Its First Takedown Notice

By: robert wright

robert wright — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:37:01 +0000

Gawker, Valleywag, Defamer et al, wash, rinse, repeat.

An entire media company built around appropriation.

Until the internet can police itself it will be the parasite on print media, basically sucking it to death.

By: Hyperbio » Blog Archive » First takedown notice for Life Magazine Image Archive

Wed, 03 Dec 2008 15:56:45 +0000

[...] A Photo Editor: Life Magazine Photo archive issues its first (is it really the first?) take down notice. This won’t be the last [...]

By: David Hobby

David Hobby — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:44:15 +0000

Watch out for Apartment Therapy. They like to look like a big, corporate site in their advertising press sheets, then play the stupid young “we didn’t know that was wrong” card when you confront them for infringing your photos. At least, that is what they did to me.

One of their publishers accidentally “replied all” to an internal email (stupid) and gave me a little behind the scenes look at just how much contempt they have for photographers.

When I took a closer look at it, the site appeared to be a typical post mill, wherein people are pressed to update, update, update, update with little time for adhering to the niceties of copyright. In my case, they simply took down my photo — and replaced it with another, web-res stock image which had metadata on it that pointed to it having been infringed as well.

Nice guys, huh?

It did not surprise me that they now seem to have a placeholder image at the ready to throw into their “takedown” posts. No sense in killing the whole post just because the only the art was infringed, huh?

By: Ellis Vener

Ellis Vener — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 01:46:13 +0000

I think the photographer was John Loengard (sp?)

By: Jonathan Wilson

Jonathan Wilson — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 00:58:11 +0000

Matter of time this would happen, especially with a library like that of images.