Permissions on Digital Media Drive Scholars to Lawbooks
Many scholars, librarians and legal experts see rich promise for the use of multimedia materials in research and education. But the possibility of litigation over file-sharing and confusion over digital copyright protections have scholars feeling threatened about venturing beyond the more familiar world of printed texts.
Photographers and N.F.L. Collide Over Licensing Plan for Archives
On one side is the National Football League, which wants to send its archive of approximately three million images of players and games to a third-party photo agency to license; Getty Images and WireImage are the two most likely partners. The archive includes images ranging from iconic N.F.L. players to Super Bowl highlights.
Opposing the move are 75 of the several hundred photographers who created much of the archive in the last 40 years and still hold the copyrights to the images. Without their permission, the photographers say, the N.F.L. has no right to license the archive to anyone.
See New York Times Co., Inc. v. Tasini (Articles written by freelancers could not be included in a computerized database without permission.)
