11th Circuit Reverses Major Copyright Ruling

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A federal appellate panel in Atlanta has reversed its circuits 6-year-old opinion in a major copyright case, declaring the rulings mandate on behalf of freelance photographers to be moot. In doing so, the three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals interpreted a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision that expanded freelance writers copyrights in a way that limited the copyright claims of freelance photographers.
 
It means that any form of media that you sell to a publisher once printed can also be recreated by the publisher onto a CD or DVD without having to repay the creator for new use. Because the court deemed that the action is not new use. It is reusing.
 
So, freelance photographers will just have to charge media outlets MORE for their pictures, seeing as how they can reproduce the pics after they acquire rights.

One of those 'victories' that big companies will take a while to digest.
 
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