What Photographers Need to Know About Fair Use (Before Someone Steals Your Work)

What Photographers Need to Know About Fair Use (Before Someone Steals Your Work)

I keep meticulous records. Backup drives for my backup drives, spreadsheets tracking every hour saved, color-coded folder hierarchies that my kids find genuinely embarrassing. So when I say copyright and image licensing is something every working photographer should have documented and understood, you can trust that I’m not being dramatic. After 15 years shooting and post-producing work for ad agencies and e-commerce brands, I’ve watched colleagues lose licensing disputes they should have won, and I’ve seen clients try to use images they had absolutely no right to use.

The AI Training Debate: What Content Creators Need to Know About Data Scraping

The AI Training Debate: What Content Creators Need to Know About Data Scraping

I’ve been following a fascinating legal development that’s got serious implications for all of us in the creative space. Three prominent YouTube creators just filed a class action lawsuit against Apple, alleging the tech giant scraped their copyrighted videos without permission to train AI models. This isn’t just a YouTube problem—it’s something every digital creator should understand. Understanding the Core Issue The lawsuit centers on a pretty straightforward claim: Apple accessed copyrighted video content through YouTube’s streaming platform while allegedly circumventing the platform’s protective measures.