DMLA Newsbreak 10/4/2022
Education
Like limitless opportunity? All-access is your ticket!
Want to give your entire staff a world-class crash course in copyright, synthetic content, photojournalism, NFTs and more?
The 2022 International Digital Media Licensing conference will let them learn straight from the best. Let’s start with the USA’s Register of Copyright Shira Perlmutter and industry legend Rick Smolan, Meta visionaries, the Committee to Protect Journalists, and leaders from Warner Media, Getty Images, Shutterstock and more.
At this year's conference, your staff members can hear from a photojournalist on the ground in Ukraine, from master builders of the metaverse, members of the new Copyright Claims board, leading intellectual property attorneys, and, you guessed it, even more.
You and your team can have it all. Purchase a Corporate All-Access Pass, and any member of your company can participate in as many sessions at this all-virtual event as they'd like.
Previous purchasers have called an All-Access Pass a "perfect opportunity" to get their staff up to speed on important issues like copyright and AI-generated imagery and to provide an engaging "crash course" in media licensing for their newest hires.
This year’s International Digital Media Licensing Conference promises the deepest, most diverse education the organization has ever produced. Don’t miss a minute of its brilliant, business-enhancing, partner-finding education, delivered wherever you choose to connect. You and your business deserve the next-level opportunities this event is about to deliver.
Engage and educate your team today with a Corporate All-Access Pass. And if you are a team of one, don’t worry! We have an All-Access Pass for you, too.
Fair Use is not a verb. Public Domain is not a place.
Public domain. Fair use. What you don’t know really can hurt you and your business. Join DMLA at Noon EDT Friday, Oct. 7, to review what it takes to undergo proper licensing of stills and footage. Our experts will come armed with plenty of real-life cases and examples to show you why you may only think you understand how it all works.
Nancy Wolff is DMLA's Legal Adviser, a Partner at Cowan DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard LLP, and recognized since 2018 as one of the Best Lawyers in the United States for her expertise in Copyright, Entertainment, Intellectual Property, Media and Trademark Law. For the record: DMLA has recognized her brilliance for more than 25 years.
Heather Cameron, Getty Images, Heather is a non-lawyer problem solver specializing in intellectual property training, claims and litigation. She joined the legal department at Getty Images' Seattle headquarters 23 years ago during the digital revolution and never looked back.
Industry News
Remembering Marybeth Peters, Register of Copyrights 1994-2010
DMLA notes with sadness the passing of Marybeth Peters, former Register of Copyrights, on September 29, at the age of 83. The copyright community lost a true friend, advocate and scholar. Marybeth served the Copyright Office for more than four decades in numerous capacities, including as its director. She helped implement both the 1976 Copyright Act, which still forms the backbone of U.S. copyright law, and the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which was instrumental in responding to the challenges of new technologies.
She was a global authority on copyright law and a well-known and well-loved presence in the world of copyright.
Marybeth and the Office worked directly with DMLA (formerly PACA) in creating a strategy for registering stock photo catalogs that would protect the individual photographs, and then for digital archives when catalogs went online. She always had the ear of the creator and tried to make copyright registration work for everyone.
“Marybeth was not only a global expert on copyright law, but she was a caring advocate for copyright and the rights of creators” said Nancy Wolff, DMLA legal adviser. “She was approachable and welcoming to all. She provided updates on the Copyright Office. She always had a smile, an infectious laugh and a wonderful sense of humor – like when she delivered news of a long backlog of registration applications during her tenure because an anthrax scare forced applications to be delivered to an offsite location for radiation, all the while holding up a disintegrated package!
"She was a true friend, and it was an honor to know her professionally and personally, whether attending annual Copyright Society Meetings or the numerous Copyright Office hearings I attended on behalf of DMLA. Her passing marks the loss of a giant force in the development of copyright law and an unparalleled source of knowledge and expertise.”
Member News
9th Annual Survey of Creative Pros indicates COVID is having a lingering effect.
VisualSteam announces the release of its 9th Annual Survey of Creative Pros: Visual Content & Licensing.
The survey is sent to more than twenty-five thousand creative pros, including creative directors, art directors, publishers, photo editors, graphic designers and marketing professionals. The goal of the survey is to provide creators, licensors and distributors with customer feedback on needs, likes and the many challenges faced when searching for and licensing visual content.