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Metal band Arch Enemy bans concert photographer after he complains their fashion designer swiped a shot
J Salmern, a Netherlands-based concert photographer, took a fantastic shot of Arch Enemy singer Alissa White-Gluz at a festival gig in Nijmegen. He posted it to his Instagram, to White-Gluz and fans' general delight.
A company named Thunderball Clothing, operated by Marta Gabriel, reposted Salmern's photo to their own Instagram account. Thunderball created the leather vest White-Gluz wore in the post, and used the photo, without the photographer's permission, to market its services.
Salmern sent a request: give €100 euros to a charity, the normal licensing fee, and he wouldn't ding Thunderball with a €500 unauthorized use invoice.
So Gabriel told the band that Salmern threatened her. And the band itself told him that, as far as they were concorned, they could also use his photos however they please.
Salmern, who as luck would have it is also a lawyer, explains that this is a dangerous misunderstanding of copyright law:
Read the restThis made no sense since, although there are some restrictions (for example, I cant use a photo of Alissa to promote a product, unless she expressly authorizes me to do so) I am the only one who gets to decide how and where my work is used. To put it in legal terms: I own the copyright over my photos.
The message also sought to perpetuate the ridiculous system that some bands expect to have with photographers: They let them come into the pit, expect to have the absolute and perpetual right to use the photos in whatever way they want, and pay photographers in exposure, by using their work before a massive audience.
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/HrKbp_Se45c/metal-band-arch-enemy-wants-to.html