A federal appeals court has re-instated stock photo agency Alaska Stock’s copyright infringement claim against textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin, reversing  a lower court decision to dismiss the case due to the fact that the stock agency had registered its images improperly. The decision signifies that Alaska Stock now gets the chance to attempt its copyright claims in court. The case… Read more →

Getty Images lit up the Twittersphere today with a press release that it was making its archive available gratis for bloggers and other non-commercial users. The various big questions are: What’s Getty gaining by making images free to the general public? How does Getty’s decision affect not just its own contributors, but all photographers? And are there any hidden costs… Read more →

© Ishiuchi Miyako “Mother’s #3,” from Miyako Ishiuchi’s series “Mothers,” which was shown on the 2005 Venice Biennale. The Hasselblad Foundation has presented Japanese photographer Miyako Ishiuchi with the 2014 Hasselblad Award, a prize of one million Swedish Krona (approx. $156,000). The award was given at a ceremony in Japan yesterday. “During a period of 35 years Miyako Ishiuchi has… Read more →

© John Stanmeyer American photographer John Stanmeyer won the 2013 World Press Photo of the Year for a picture depicting African migrants standing at the beach in Djibouti, holding cell phones aloft so we can get a reasonable wireless signal from neighboring Somalia so that they could reach family abroad. The arena Press Organization announced the winners of the 57th annual… Read more →

©Associated Press/Narciso Contreras Contreras’s image, showing the unique version (top) and the altered version (bottom) with a circle highlighting the alteration.  Associated Press (AP) has severed ties with freelance photographer Narciso Contreras for altering a news photograph he shot in Syria, the wire service has announced. Contreras was section of a team of AP photographers that shared the Pulitzer Prize… Read more →

© John Dominis/Time Inc/Courtesy of the Monroe Gallery “Mickey Mantle Having a nasty Day at Yankee Stadium, Long island,” 1956, photographed by John Dominis for all times magazine.  John Dominis, who photographed sports, politics, celebrities and culture as a staff photographer at LIFE from the 1950s to the 1970s, died December 30 at his home in Ny city,  Life.time.com reports. He… Read more →