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Legal Controversies Forum / Warhol estate sues Photographer over transformative use

« on: May 02, 2017, 11:09:07 AM »

Preemptive strike by artist against photographer.

https://petapixel.com/2017/04/15/andy-warhol-estate-sues-photog-prince-photo-copyright-fight/

This one is close to my heart. Actually my wallet, but I didn't have the Warhol Estate's finances to roll the dice.

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Getty Images Letter Forum / Is posting links copyright infringement?

« on: January 04, 2014, 02:40:31 PM »

In reference to "those" letters from Sanders, representing BWP:

I'm curious about two things:
1) With a "contact" link on every single static or dynamic page on a website, can DMCA safe-harbor apply when the site doesn't have a registered agent. Doesn't due-diligence play into this - if an image is alleged to be infringing why couldn't there simply have been an effort to click "contact". Seems it would have been more onerous to go through the hoops to determine a DMCA agent... There also seems to be a deliberate skipping of steps that to my way of thinking would more buttress a plaintiff's case (obviously the point in an extortion scheme)?
2) Links. Can you really be sued for a link? Didn't Google go through a similar case for their search engine caching links/thumbnails or such. Where does the law stand on such matters if the image was never hosted on a defendant's site in the first place and, say for example, was simply linked from what was considered an official source?