By Jameel Odom In recent copyright infringement news, the British government recently moved to repeal section 52 of the Copyright, Designs, and Patents Act. Removing section 52 will increase the …
By Jameel Odom Stock Photo by: https://picjumbo.com/girl-shooting-with-dsrl-in-sun/ A freelance photographer named Giordano Cipriani is accusing Grammy winning rapper Kendrick Lamar of copyright infringement. Mr. Cipriani is claiming that Kendrick Lamar took …
by Eric Reeves – World Art Group . Below are photos taken during the 2012 Guangzhou Furniture Fair on Saturday September 8, 2012 inside Modern Decoration’s Booth. Below each photo of …
These pictures were taken in the Shenzhen Sunsister Design CO., LTD booth at the Shenzhen DecoExpo in Shenzhen, China on July 29, 2013. We have sent numerous emails and letters from a chinese attorney with no response from Sunsister. We have asked Sunsister repeatedly to remove our images from their booth, stop selling our prints, and pay us for the prints they have sold.
At the recent West Coast Art & Frame show, art publishers gathered to discuss industry issues. The biggest issue common to all of us – no surprise here – is copyright infringement, particularly in Asia. At the meeting the group decided to formally revive the Art Copyright Coalition which had become somewhat dormant during the recession when we were all busy just trying to survive.
On October 24-25, 2012, eight art publisher members of the Art Copyright Coalition met in Guangzhou, China to walk the Canton Fair and the Jinhan Fair to assess the level of copyright infringements at these shows. The group found over 30 Chinese companies with significant levels of illegal copies. Because two days was insufficient time to cover both shows, the group estimated the number of infringing companies to be much higher.
