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Painted Stories in Britain 4: Hogarth extended

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Two of Hogarth’s later narrative series: Four Time of the Day, and Marriage A-la-Mode, were key in his new British narrative painting.

September 21, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Publishers determined to kill electronic books

A recent judgement makes it a breach of copyright to sell pre-owned eBooks. Do publishers really want to deter everyone from buying eBooks?

December 26, 2019 General, Language, Life, Macs, Technology

Versions and other app metadata: what to trust?

Version numbers are simple, aren’t they? So how come so few of Apple’s own apps conform to its own rules? And as for copyright info, forget it, as so many Apple apps seem to.

July 10, 2019 Macs, Technology

Italian Masters go commercial: the Bridgeman deal is bad for art

Bridgeman Images has acquired rights to images for all the 439 state-owned museums and galleries in Italy. Why this is bad are art historians, art, and culture.

April 23, 2018 General, Life, Painting

xattr: com.apple.metadata:kMDItemCopyright, records copyright info

Contains arbitrary copyright information which remains ‘sticky’ and is not stripped when most metadata are removed from files.

December 20, 2017 xattr

An introduction to rights to use images in blogs and websites

How can a blogger (or website author) ensure that they do not infringe copyright when using images of artworks? Here are some suggestions.

November 4, 2016 General, Macs, Painting, Technology

Industrial copyright abuse

Copyright should protect the creators and their work. It has been turned on its head, to generate immoral earnings for companies who have no rights in much of the content they sell.

August 6, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Someone is likely to be profiting from your public domain content

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Is it right that image libraries should charge their customers for the use of content which they know is in the public domain?

August 3, 2016 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

How copyright disserves almost everyone

Current law does not help websites such as this, or Wikipedia – or the original artists.

February 12, 2016 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Getting copyright right

Two current cases show how messy copyright can become: it is not a Happy Birthday for Harry Potter.

July 31, 2015 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

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