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Corbis, DMCA, And John Kerry Photos

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the forgery-and-libel-were-already-criminal dept.

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."

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  1. Corbis Owner by gabeman-o · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Not that it's necessarily relative, but I think either Bill Gates or Microsoft owns Corbis.

  2. Personal Photos by nycsubway · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    My fiance has a picture of: her, her parents, her sister, standing with John Kerry. Just the five of them. I dont know who took the picture.

    Are pictures with famous people copyrighted in some way by the famous person? I hope not. I just think its really cool that my future wife had her picture taken with a potential US president.

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  3. Bill Gates.. by greenskyx · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    Not that this is too important, but I found it interesting that Bill Gates owns Corbis... (see this month's forbes magazine)