Category: Ethics & Legal

“Edgy artist” is not the phrase I would use to describe Richard Prince … thief, perhaps. Or genius – he appears to be convincing someone to spend $100,000 on screenshots of someone else’s bad photographs. (Thanks to David Burnett for the link.)

You know the old line about how enough monkeys with enough cameras can make any photo … well, it happened with this photo of a crested black macaque that photographed itself. There’s been some controversy over the image as the photographer who traveled to Indonesia and owned the camera that was used to make the image claimed copyright ownership …...

This is fascinating and disturbing on many levels – the work of an unknown photographer, Vivian Maier, that was discovered at an auction several years ago and who has since been heralded as one of the great street photographers, is now heading into the courts over copyright claims. As someone who truly appreciates the work she did and is intrigued...