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If it was the goal of Thierry Guetta, aka Mr. Brainwash, to join the ranks of the street artist elite, as told in the Banksy documentary that made him a near household name, Exit Through the Gift Shop, then he has sort of kind of succeeded. Like Shepard Fairey vs. the Associated Press before him, a judge ruled against Guetta this week in a copyright suit involving the use and re-purposing of a photograph. You might recall that we’d written about the case a few months back, when photographer Glen Friedman sued Guetta after he’d used an iconic shot he’d captured of the group RunDMC in the street artist’s debut show, “Life is Beautiful,” which was chronicled at the end of Exit. The Hollywood Reporter writes that Guetta attempted to argue that the “photograph wasn’t original enough to deserve copyright protection,” but the judge overseeing the case (as well as Friedman’s many fans) believed otherwise. In the end, Friedman won and now the case will move into what Guetta will owe in damages. Here’s a bit:

The judge examines the four factors of the fair use test, including (1) the purpose and character of use; (2) the nature of the copyrighted work; (3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and (4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for the copyrighted work, and determines that Guetta can’t satisfy his burden in establishing this defense.

“To permit one artist the right to use without consequence the original creative and copyrighted work of another artist simply because that artist wished to create an alternative work would eviscerate any protection by the Copyright Act,” concludes Judge Pregerson. “Without such protection, artists would lack the ability to control the reproduction and public display of their work and, by extension, to justly benefit from their original creative work.”

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Le photographe indonésien Jeffrey Surianto arrive à exprimer tout son talent avec la photo. Toujours en train de capturer des visages et des paysages principalement de son pays, ses visuels aux couleurs incroyables impressionnent. Plus d’images dans la suite de l’article.

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Découverte de cette vidéo bien réalisée reflétant avec réussite Manhattan, le tout grâce à un travail de Josh Owens alias Mindrelic. Ce film time-lapse est intitulé “Manhattan en Motion”. Il est à découvrir en vidéo HD dans la suite de l’article.

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Vincent Goutal et Olivia Leriche ont créés ensemble cette série de photographies intitulée Transitions. Cherchant à mettre en image des moments dans le quotidien, ces clichés sont minutieusement composés afin de souligner la modernité et le réalisme des situations.

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Remember last year when Lady Gaga was named the rebooted Polaroid brand’s Creative Director? Or earlier this year when, at the Consumer Electronic Show, the three products she’d reportedly helped develop for the company received their high-profile debut? Well, hot off the heels of the release of Gaga’ new album, the first fruit of that collaboration were finally made available this weekend for public consumption. Zdnet reports that the GL10, a mobile printer from its Gaga-connected Grey Label line, has been made available for purchase at Bloomingdale’s flagship store in Manhattan and for pre-order on Polaroid’s site, shipping sometime in early to mid-June. While aesthetically appealing, and technically interesting, in that the small device will print wirelessly from cell phones, cameras, or anything with Bluetooth connectivity, to this writer, it isn’t the most thrilling release. While we’re sure they’ll sell, both to the gadget-inclined and the Gaga-enthused, we’d much rather have seen a quicker release of the GL20, a pair of glasses with a camera built in that allowed users to immediately display photos onto the lenses themselves. It’s an utterly ridiculous product, and likely won’t sell as well as something that’s occasionally useful in the real world, but surely would have captured a bit more attention and excitement than a mild-mannered printer. But we’ll reserve any more judgment than that until we’ve seen the GL10 in the flesh.

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