Copyright, Fair Use & Orphan Works: Legal Conundrums in the Use & Misappropriation of Photographs and Visual Images Posted 5 hours ago

Copyright is, at its most basic, a property right, that must be assertively protected in order to "promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

Photography & the Law - Beyonce' and Beyond: A Roundup of Recent Legal Issues Posted May 19

Beyoncé and her management team are certainly free to propose any guidelines they wish; but the NPPA, supported by many other news organizations believes that providing her own hand-picked handout photos rather than allow independent press coverage is wrong.