Corbis Stock Photography Claims Copyright Victory
PDNOnline reports that Corbis has reached an out of court agreement with Ofoto, a division of Kodak. The suit stemmed from pirated images by Corbis photographers that appeared on the now defunct file sharing site Webshots. Ofoto inherited the suit when it bought Webshots. Apparently, folks downloaded images from the Corbis site, them uploaded them to the public Webshots site for sharing.
As part of the settlement, Ofoto agreed to license digital watermarking technology to detect copyrighted images...
Right now, Ofoto uses human editors to judge which images were made by professional photographers.
Corbis uses a company called Digimarc, which supplies digital watermarking and document identification software. Green says Corbis? in-house team uses the technology to uncover between 20 and 50 commercial infringements per month.