From Etapes. SubmarineChannel.com: “Very worthwhile even if you don’t speak French. There are clips of the original animatics, character studies, and Logorama creators Ludovic Houplain, Hervé de Crécy et François Alaux of H5 discuss their love for logos, the graphic style of the film, the… Read More
io9: “Hanuka’s illustration of a ravenous Googly-Moogly (and its pen-wielding prey) is in this month’s issue of California Lawyer, which contains a refreshingly lucid synopsis of what’s at stake legally and financially for the players involved in the Google settlement.”
Books at the University of Michigan Library which have been scanned on behalf of Google. Photograph: Mandi Wright/AP Guardian.co.uk: “Former children’s laureates Quentin Blake, Anne Fine and Jacqueline Wilson, bestselling authors Jeffrey Archer and Louis de Bernières and critical favourites Thomas Pynchon, Zadie Smith and… Read More
Los Angeles Times: “In October, the L.A. artist admitted that he knowingly submitted false images and deleted others during the case in an attempt to conceal the fact that the AP had correctly identified the photo that Fairey had used as a reference for his… Read More
I have followed Henry Jenkins’ blog Confessions of an Aca/Fan ever since I read his fascinating book on what he calls participatory culture. Today Mister jenkins ios having a look at “Obama artist” Shepard Fairey: “At first, I envisioned the stickers as a new kind… Read More
Contemporary Dance Video Database: “We love dancers.Although the ethics behind uploading ‘somebody’s work’ to the internet without ‘permission’ is highly debatable, our point is doing so, especially when the ‘work’ in question is a performance video -live recording or movie version of the performance, is… Read More
BBC: “Celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz is being sued by an Italian photographer who says she used his pictures without permission. Paolo Pizzetti claims Ms Leibovitz used photos he took in Venice and Rome, and passed them off as her own in a 2009 calendar for… Read More
The Guardian: “The heirs of Karl Ganzer, the Austrian composer of the 63-year-old beer-hall hit which is said to be Europe’s most-played folk song, were yesterday successful in their attempts to sue the music publisher Egon Frauenberger, who claimed he had written the song’s refrain… Read More
This work by Sir Joshua Reynolds was among those uploaded to Wikipedia BBC: “The battle over Wikipedia’s use of images from a British art gallery’s website has intensified. The online encyclopaedia has accused the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) of betraying its public service mission. But… Read More
Wired.com: “The Wall Street Journal’s publisher Les Hinton has called Google a ‘digital vampire,’ but even his paper, one of the last holdouts of subscription-based online content, has made its articles’ full text accessible via Google searches. Using free content as bait for paying customers… Read More
