Corbis, DMCA, And John Kerry Photos

Phronesis writes "Photo District News is running a story reporting that three historic photos of John Kerry from the early 1970s, including the one used for the Jane Fonda forgery, were pirated from Corbis. The photographers who own the copyright on the photos are asking Corbis to use its fancy watermarking technology to find the culprit. Corbis hopes either to track the responsible people down using watermarks, or to invoke DMCA if the watermarks were removed."

Comments

Damn that photoshop

[ArmenTanzarian]

TotalFarker's give a collective "yeee..." and pull at their shirt collars.

Re:Damn that photoshop

[double-oh three]

And with this PS contest, they are clearly in violation of copyright. Look at all those photoshopped pictures of celebrities!

Volunteering

[lukewarmfusion]

"Pardon me. Would the person responsible for forging the photos, removing the watermarks from the source images, and distributing a libellous claim please come to the Principal's office? Thank you."

I keep reading...

[cartzworth]

...infringers - don't they mean thieves? Oh wait, this isn't an RIAA related article.

Who?

[JohnGrahamCumming]

/. please explain some of these difficult to understand terms: I mean I know what GIMP, DMCA, MP3, PARC, DSL, DRM, DVD and NSA mean, but who's this John Kerry and this Jane Fonda?

John.

Re:Watermarks

[GMFTatsujin]

it's not like it reads, "Thou shalt not do anything we don't like."

Are you sure about that? It's in the fine print. Really fine print, as it turns out -- it's in microtext in the dot over the second "i" in "millennium."

AG Ashcroft ...

[burgburgburg]

has declared that this investigation has been indefinitely been put on hold for reasons of national security. Furthermore, the original photographer has been relocated for his own protection to Guantanamo Bay, along with representatives of Corbis and anybody else who makes trouble, see!

Re:/. sums it up nicely for once

[Anonymous Coward]

For sooth! He used a Y instead of an I! LETS FLAY HIM!!

Belgian hacker found responsible...

[Channard]

Apparently the trail lead to the account of one Beorge Gush - investigations continue.

Apropos posting.

[erik_fredricks]

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that this article directly follows the one announcing Gimp 2.0?

Just wondering...

Re:Not a bad forgery.....

[sfjoe]

Well, at least she got closer to the VietCong than George Bush.

Re:/. sums it up nicely for once

[AhBeeDoi]

And you DO know his wife's maiden name, right? A well known condiment.
What sort of condiment is Simoes-Ferreira?

Re:/. sums it up nicely for once

[nexex]

he also the richest senator

but what people dont know he is controlled by big ketchup and the tomato lobby

Re:/. sums it up nicely for once

[KlomDark]

So people will be chanting "No blood for ketchup" (Or "No Ketchup for Blood" :) ) instead of "No Blood for Oil"?

Re:/. sums it up nicely for once

[d34thm0nk3y]

so much for the 'rich republicans'

I was suprised when I saw these numbers too, but then I realized that most people probably don't put bribes on their tax return.

Re:/. sums it up nicely for once

[uncoveror]

Those old analog photographs are so easy to fake. It is a shame we didn't always have digital cameras.

As Dr. Marcus Von Vickersburg from The International Institute for Photographic Analysis stated, "digital photographs cannot be faked"
;)

I'm confused.

[CausticPuppy]

I don't recall the argument being that Republicans were rich. It was that they are the tools of the rich...

So basically you're saying that Republicans are the tools of the Democrats?

Brain... hurting! Must... vote... Libertarian!!