Link: $1 billion worth of stolen content | Thoughts of a Bohemian

While Tumblr always had a policy of abiding to the DMCA and would take down any flagged images not properly licensed, it is however a fact that out of the 107.8 million blogs and 50.6 billion posts, the majority are made of images stolen from other sources.

Link: AFP v Morel: Judge reconsiders potential damages – British Journal of Photography

Daniel Morel has been dealt a blow in his three-year-long legal battle against Agence France-Presse and Getty Images after a judge has reconsidered the amount of statutory damages the freelance photographer will be able to claim

Link: The Photography of Alma Lavenson, From Pictorialism to Modernism – NYTimes.com

Imagine you’re a young photographer. It’s 1930, and you’re armed with a letter of introduction from a family friend — a fellow patron of the arts. The letter is addressed to Edward Weston.

Link: Todd Hido: Excerpts from Silver Meadows | Le Journal de la Photographie

Hido’s recent work offers a darkly dramatic glimpse into a world that reflects both the alienation and dislocation of suburban America

Link: Gavin WatsonChroniques anglaises | Le Journal de la Photographie

Born in 1965 in northwest London, Gavin Watson started taking pictures at an early age. By the time he was 14 he was a skinhead, immersed in the world of Madness and Two Tone, and set about documenting the antics of his friends and especially this ‘muse’, his brother Neville

Link: In Memoriam: Wayne Miller (1918 – 2013) – LightBox

To photograph mankind and explain man to man — that was how legendary photographer Wayne Miller described his decades-long drive to document the myriad subjects gracing his work. Miller passed away Wednesday at the age of 94 at his home in California.

Link: Diggy Lloyd | JENREN

Link: Documenting thrift culture in all 50 states. – Slideshow – HaRVey2- Washington, DC

It seems thrift shopping has started to appeal to a broader audience. As a photographer, journalist, and culture enthusiast, I became fascinated by not only the people that shop at thrift stores, but by the stories I see in the donated goods available at thrift stores.

I see what you wear, I see where you vacation, who you vote for, what church you go to, even what 5K you ran. Each item tells us a little bit about ourselves, about our neighbors and about America.

Link: LeTour by Grayson west: Arts & Photography | Blurb Books

Grayson West’s Le Tour as Seen on TV is a unique playful photographic journey of the world greatest bike race. This is a must have for any cyclist or zine enthusiast. 150 copies available.

Link: HEAVY DISCUSSION

This is probably the worst driver I’ve ever seen.

Link: World Press Photo controversy: Objectivity, manipulation and the search for truth – British Journal of Photography

Beyond the attacks leveraged against Paul Hansen’s winning World Press Photo, the recent controversy over image toning is symptomatic of the current state of photojournalism and its place in a society that has learned not to trust what it sees. Photojournalists, photography directors and post-producers speak to Olivier Laurent, and ask whether objectivity in photojournalism is actually attainable

Link: photo-eye | BLOG: Prince is King & Flux and Focus: Responses to Appellate Court Decision on Cariou v. Prince

Last summer photo-eye hosted a series of lectures on art law that culminated in a panel discussion on appropriation centering around the highly discussed Cariou v. Prince. With the appellate court decision in Prince’s favor in April, the discussion continues, and we asked two of our panelist, Talia Kosh and Craig Anderson, to weigh in on the ruling.

Link: Copyright Implications of Yahoo Buying Tumblr | Plagiarism Today

With the buyout of Tumblr, one of the Web’s most prominent independent companies has come under the wing of one of the established giants. Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Facebook and Twitter combine to control a large part of our lives online.

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Link: Copyright Implications of Yahoo Buying Tumblr

Link: Angelos Tzortzinis’s Photos of Growing Desperation in Greece – NYTimes.com

For Mr. Tzortzinis, who grew up in the area, seeing women give themselves for as little as 5 euros underscores one of the many horrors of Greece’s drawn-out crisis.

Link: Alec Soth Interview – Part 2

We’re continuing that project, and we’re using the Guggenheim funds to expand it in difficult-to-fund regions. We’re doing Texas, and it’s easier to get funding there, than some place like Idaho. It’s a very expensive project because there are three of us traveling, and I pay Brad. Then we produce the newspaper

Link: Virtually Everything the Government Did to WikiLeaks is Now Being Done to Mainstream US Reporters | Freedom of the Press Foundation

Link: Privacy, public health and the moral hazard of surveillance | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk

If online oversharing is a public health problem, then the state’s decision to harness it for its own purposes means that huge, powerful forces within government will come to depend on it

Link: Spitting on the Grave — Jim Colton

Yesterday, at a press conference after an “acquisition” meeting of Tumblr, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was quoted with the following statement: “There’s no such thing as Flickr Pro today because [with so many people taking photographs] there’s really no such thing as professional photographers anymore.” 

Excuse me?

Link: PDN Pulse » Blog Archive » Forget Tumblr: Yahoo! Has Big Plans for Flickr

I have a feeling this is just the beginning of seeing Flickr images everywhere you see the purple Yahoo! logo.