A few nice photo websites images I found:
More on the Vivia photo; First article.
Image by Kaare
This is what the story looked like in the newspaper today. Also, the story was on their website too: www.bt.no/innenriks/article332174.ece
A rough translation:
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A German photographer is threatening to go to court after Unge Høyres membership paper used her photo for the cover page without her consent.
-I’m asking for back pay for the use and for breach of the copyright, and also for moral rights, say Mareen Fischinger from Düsseldorf.
Last Tuesday the German freelance photographer sent a letter to Unge Høyre in which she calls to their attention that one of her photos are being used illegally as cover illustration on their membership paper Xtra.
The edition in question came out in September last year, the number printed being 20.000. The theme of the issue as women, feminism, and liberalism, something the cover illustrates by the photo of a young woman, Mareen Fischingers sister Vivien.
The photographer was not asked
The picture was taken by Mareen Fischinger, who in august posted it on flickr.com – a website where people interested in photography can view and comment on each other’s photos. Only recently did she see the comment by a Norwegian flickr user who had seen the picture on the cover of Xtra – a use Fischinger had neither heard about, nor given permission to.
I followed it up at once, and found several cases of the photo being used in the website of Unge Høyre, says Fischinger.
Was the photo protected in any way, either technically of through a copyright warning?
The photo can only be downloaded by registered flickr-users and carries the copyright mark © All rights reserved next to it. In my flickr profile I even ask people to send me an email should they wish to use photos privately, something a lot of people do…
Demands 67.000 kroner
In the letter to Unge Høyre Fischinger demand a fee of €1240, and an additional fee of €2800 for breach of the copyright. She also demands a similar fee on behalf of her sister, something that puts the total demand at over 67000 kroner.
In addition she demand that Unge Høyre sign a paper stating that they will never use the photo again, with a penalty fee of €41000 should they ever break the contract.
I will take the issue to court if Editor Ida Mjelde doesn’t answer or follow my instructions, says Fischinger.
That her photo is used in a political relation is extra bad to her. –Not even a big agency would approve of the political message without reservation, so Unge Høyre must have thought they got around that hurdle quite easily, says Fischinger, who have experienced similar misuse earlier.
This is probably just one of many cases where my photos are used illegally, but this time it was accidently discovered. In a new world with superfast internet photos are spread more. Everyone has got access to them, but that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be protected. I put my files on the internet for people to watch them, not for people to exploit them for their own profit, or spread their message says Fischinger.
The young photographer was recently used by international photo agency GettyImages, but stress that the photo in question has never been available any other place than flicr.com.
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-Pure theft
"The leader of The Pressphotograpers Union, Terje Bringedal, is reacting sharply to this case.
There is no doubt that this is pure theft. They must have fetched the photo off the internet. Even Unge Høyre must understand that this is theft, says Bringedal.
There are according to him a lot of people experiencing their photos on the internet being used without permission. He also belives that Fischinger has a good case, should it ever get that far.
-I don't know about anyone having to go to trial about this, because most of the thieves acknowledge the fact."
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-Will look into the case
-We have recived the letter today and will look into the case as soon as possible.
This is what the general secretary of Unge Høyre, Gunnar Kongsrud, said when BT contacted him Tuesday. By this time Xtra-editor Ida Mjelde asked that all questions be directed at him. According to Mjelde it is Unge Høyre Landsforbund who is responsible for the graphic design of the paper. However, on the content page in Xtra the following is stated: "The content is not edited by any part of Unge Høyre, but by an independent editorial staff." Short time after BT's inquiry the web edition of the paper in question was unavailable.
AIA 150 logo
Image by wallyg
In February 2007, to celebrate their 150th anniversary, the American Insitute of Architects (AIA) named their America's Favorite Architecture list. For details about the methodology, see the topic posting, Methodology. For more information, see the AIA 150 website
# 1: Empire State Building - New York City (William Lamb, Shreve, Lamb & Harmon)
# 2: The White House - Washington, D.C. (James Hoban)
# 3: Washington National Cathedral - Washington, D.C. (George F. Bodley and Henry Vaughan, FAIA)
# 4: Thomas Jefferson Memorial - Washington D.C. (John Russell Pope, FAIA)
# 5: Golden Gate Bridge - San Francisco (Irving F. Morrow and Gertrude C. Morrow)
# 6: U.S. Capitol - Washington, D.C. (William Thornton, Benjamin Henry Latrobe, Charles Bulfinch, Thomas U. Walter FAIA, Montgomery C. Meigs)
# 7: Lincoln Memorial - Washington, D.C. (Henry Bacon, FAIA)
# 8: Biltmore Estate (Vanderbilt Residence) - Asheville, NC (Richard Morris Hunt, FAIA)
# 9: Chrysler Building - New York City (William Van Alen, FAIA)
# 10: Vietnam Veterans Memorial - Washington, D.C. (Maya Lin with Cooper-Lecky Partnership)
# 11: St. Patrick’s Cathedral - New York City (James Renwick, FAIA)
# 12: Washington Monument - Washington, D.C. (Robert Mills)
# 13: Grand Central Station - New York City (Reed and Stern; Warren and Wetmore)
# 14: The Gateway Arch - St. Louis (Eero Saarinen, FAIA)
# 15: Supreme Court of the United States - Washington, D.C. (Cass Gilbert, FAIA)
# 16: St. Regis Hotel - New York City (Trowbridge & Livingston)
# 17: Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City (Calvert Vaux, FAIA; McKim, Mead & White; Richard Morris Hunt, FAIA; Kevin Roche, FAIA; John Dinkeloo, FAIA)
# 18: Hotel Del Coronado - San Diego (James Reid, FAIA)
# 19: World Trade Center - New York City (Minoru Yamasaki, FAIA; Antonio Brittiochi; Emery Roth & Sons)
# 20: Brooklyn Bridge - New York City (John Augustus Roebling)
# 21: Philadelphia City Hall - Philadelphia (John McArthur Jr., FAIA)
# 22: Bellagio Hotel and Casino - Las Vegas (Deruyter Butler; Atlandia Design)
# 23: Cathedral of St. John the Divine - New York City (Heins & La Farge; Ralph Adams Cram)
# 24: Philadelphia Museum of Art - Philadelphia (Horace Trumbauer, Zantzinger, Borie, and Medary)
# 25: Trinity Church - Boston (Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA)
# 26: Ahwahnee Hotel - Yosemite Valley, CA (Gilbert Stanley Underwood)
# 27: Monticello - Charlottesville, VA (Thomas Jefferson)
# 28: Library of Congress - Washington, D.C. (John L. Smithmeyer, FAIA and Paul J. Pelz, FAIA)
# 29: Kaufmann Residence (Fallingwater) - Bear Run, PA (Frank Lloyd Wright)
# 30: Taliesin - Spring Green, WI (Frank Lloyd Wright)
# 31: Wrigley Field - Chicago (Zachary Taylor Davis)
# 32: Wanamaker’s Department Store - Philadelphia (Daniel Burnham, FAIA)
# 33: Rose Center for Earth and Space - New York City (James Stewart Polshek, FAIA)
# 34: National Gallery of Art, West Building - Washington, D.C. (John Russell Pope, FAIA)
# 35: Allegheny County Courthouse - Pittsburgh (Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA)
# 36: Old Faithful Inn - Yellowstone National Park, WY (Robert Reamer)
# 37: Union Station - Washington, D.C. (Daniel Burnham, FAIA)
# 38: Tribune Tower - Chicago (Howells & Hood)
# 39: Delano Hotel - Miami Beach (Robert Swartburg; Philippe Starck (interior))
# 40: Union Station - St. Louis (Theodore C. Link, FAIA)
# 41: Hearst Residence (Hearst Castle) - San Simeon, CA (Julia Morgan)
# 42: Sears Tower - Chicago (Bruce Graham, FAIA, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)
# 43: Crane Library - Quincy, MA (Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA)
# 44: Woolworth Building - New York City (Cass Gilbert, FAIA)
# 45: Cincinnati Union Terminal - Cincinnati (Alfred Fellheimer, FAIA and Stewart Wagner, FAIA; Paul Philippe Cret,consulting architect)
# 46: Waldorf Astoria - New York City (Schultze & Weaver)
# 47: New York Public Library - New York City (Carrère & Hastings)
# 48: Carnegie Hall - New York City (William B. Tuthill, FAIA; Richard Morris Hunt, FAIA and Dankmar Adler, FAIA, consulting architects)
# 49: San Francisco City Hall - San Francisco (Arthur Brown Jr., FAIA)
# 50: Virginia State Capitol - Richmond, VA (Thomas Jefferson)
# 51: Cadet Chapel, Air Force Academy - Colorado Springs, CO (Walter Netsch, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)
# 52: Field Museum of Natural History - Chicago (Charles B. Atwood, D. H. Burnham & Co.)
# 53: Apple Store Fifth Avenue - New York City (Bohlin Cywinski Jackson)
# 54: Fisher Fine Arts Library, University of Pennsylvania - Philadelphia (Frank Furness, FAIA)
# 55: Mauna Kea Beach Hotel - Kohala Coast, HI (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)
# 56: Rockefeller Center - New York City (Raymond Hood et al., FAIA)
# 57: Denver International Airport - Denver (Fentress Bradburn Architects)
# 58: Ames Library - North Easton, MA (Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA)
# 59: Milwaukee Art Museum - Milwaukee (Santiago Calatrava, FAIA)
# 60: Thorncrown Chapel - Eureka Springs, AK (E. Fay Jones, FAIA)
# 61: TransAmerica Pyramid - San Francisco (William Pereira, FAIA)
# 62: 333 Wacker Drive - Chicago (William E. Pedersen, FAIA, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates)
# 63: National Museum of Air and Space - Washington, D.C. (Gyo Obata, FAIA, Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum)
# 64: Faneuil Hall Marketplace - Boston (Benjamin Thompson, FAIA)
# 65: Crystal Cathedral - Garden Grove, CA (Philip Johnson, FAIA, Johnson/Burgee)
# 66: Gamble House - Pasadena, CA (Greene and Greene)
# 67: Nebraska State Capital - Lincoln, NE (Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue)
# 68: New York Times Building - New York City (Renzo Piano, Hon. FAIA)
# 69: Salt Lake City Public Library - Salt Lake City (Moshe Safdie, FAIA; VCBO Architecture Associates)
# 70: Dolphin and Swan Hotels, Walt Disney World - Orlando, FL (Michael Graves, FAIA)
# 71: Hearst Tower - New York City (George P. Post & Sons; addition Foster + Partners)
# 72: Flatiron Building (Fuller Building) - New York City (Daniel Burnham, FAIA)
# 73: Lake Point Tower - Chicago (Schipporeit-Heinrich; Graham, Anderson, Probst & White)
# 74: Guggenheim Museum - New York City (Frank Lloyd Wright)
# 75: Union Station - Los Angeles (John Parkinson and Donald B. Parkinson)
# 76: Willard Hotel - Washington, D.C. (Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, FAIA)
# 77: Sever Hall, Harvard University - Cambridge, MA (Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA)
# 78: Broadmoor Hotel - Colorado Springs, CO (Warren & Wetmore)
# 79: Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center - Washington, D.C. (Pei Cobb Freed & Partners)
# 80: Phillips Exeter Academy Library - Exeter, NH (Louis I. Kahn, FAIA)
# 81: The Plaza Hotel - New York City (Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, FAIA)
# 82: Sofitel Chicago Water Tower - Chicago (Jean-Paul Viguier, Hon. FAIA)
# 83: Glessner House - Chicago (Henry Hobson Richardson, FAIA)
# 84: Yankee Stadium - New York City (Osborn Architects & Engineers)
# 85: Harold Washington Library Center - Chicago (Hammond, Beeby & Babka)
# 86: Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts - New York City (Wallace K. Harrison, FAIA, director, board of architects)
# 87: The Dakota Apartments - New York City (Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, FAIA)
# 88: Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago (Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge)
# 89: Fairmont Hotel - San Francisco (Reid & Reid; Julia Morgan)
# 90: Boston Public Library - Boston (McKim, Mead & White)
# 91: Hollywood Bowl - Hollywood (Lloyd Wright; Allied Architects; Frank Gehry; Hodgetts + Fung Design Associates with Gruen Associates)
# 92: Texas State Capitol - Austin (Elijah E. Myers)
# 93: Fontainebleau - Miami Beach (Morris Lapidus)
# 94: Legal Research Building, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, MI (York & Sawyer; Gunnar Birkerts (addition))
# 95: J. Paul Getty Center for the Arts - Los Angeles (Richard Meier, FAIA)
# 96: High Museum - Atlanta (Richard Meier, FAIA)
# 97: Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse - Islip, NY (Richard Meier, FAIA)
# 98: Humana Building - Louisville, KY (Michael Graves, FAIA)
# 99: Walt Disney Concert Hall - Los Angeles (Frank Gehry, FAIA)
#100: Radio City Music Hall - New York City (Edward Durell Stone, FAIA)
#101: Paul Brown Stadium - Cincinnati (NBBJ)
#102: United Airlines Terminal, O’Hare - Chicago (Helmut Jahn, FAIA, Murphy/Jahn)
#103: Hyatt Regency Atlanta - Atlanta (John Portman, FAIA)
#104: AT&T Park (San Francisco Giants Stadium) - San Francisco (Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum)
#105: Time Warner Center - New York City (David Childs, Skidmore, Owings & Merrill)
#106: Washington, D.C., Metro - Washington, D.C. (Harry Weese, FAIA)
#107: IDS Center - Minneapolis (Philip Johnson, FAIA, Johnson/Burgee)
#108: Seattle Public Library - Seattle (Rem Koolhaas, Office for Metropolitan Architecture)
#109: Museum of Modern Art - San Francisco (Mario Botta, Hon. FAIA)
#110: Union Station - Chicago (Daniel Burnham, Graham, Anderson, Probst & White)
#111: United Nations Headquarters - New York City (International Committee of Architects, Wallace K. Harrison, chairman; Oscar Niemeyer; Le Corbusier)
#112: National Building Museum (Pension Building) - Washington, D.C. (Montgomery C. Meigs)
#113: Fenway Park - Boston (Osborn Architects & Engineers)
#114: Dana Thomas House- Springfield, IL (Frank Lloyd Wright)
#115: TWA Terminal, Kennedy Airport - New York City (Eero Saarinen, FAIA)
#116: The Athenaeum - New Harmony, IN (Richard Meier, FAIA)
#117: Walker Art Center - Minneapolis (Herzog & de Meuron)
#118: American Airlines Center - Dallas (David M. Schwarz, FAIA; Architectural Services; HKS)
#119: Arizona Biltmore Resort and Spa - Phoenix (Albert Chase McArthur)
#120: Los Angeles Central Library - Los Angeles (Bertram Grosvenor Goodhue)
#121: San Francisco International Terminal - San Francisco (Skidmore, Owings & Merrill; Del Campo & Maru Architects; Michael Willis Architects)
#122: Oriole Park at Camden Yards - Baltimore (Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum)
#123: Taliesin West - Scottsdale, AZ (Frank Lloyd Wright)
#124: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - Washington, D.C. (James Ingo Freed, FAIA, Pei Cobb Freed & Partners)
#125: Citicorp Center - New York City (Hugh Stubbins & Associates; Emery Roth & Sons)
#126: V. C. Morris Gift Shop (Xanadu Gallery) - San Francisco (Frank Lloyd Wright)
#127: Union Station - Kansas City, MO (Jarvis Hunt)
#128: Rookery Building - Chicago (Burnham and Root)
#129: Weisman Art Museum - Minneapolis (Frank Gehry, FAIA)
#130: Douglas House - Harbor Springs, MI (Richard Meier, FAIA)
#131: Hollyhock House - Los Angeles (Frank Lloyd Wright)
#132: Pennzoil Place - Houston (Philip Johnson, FAIA; Johnson/Burgee)
#133: Royalton Hotel - New York City (Philippe Starck)
#134: Reliant Astrodome - Houston (Hermon Lloyd, FAIA & W. B. Morgan; Wilson, Morris, Crain and Anderson)
#135: Safeco Field - Seattle (NBBJ)
#136: Corning Museum of Glass - Corning, NY (Gunnar Birkerts, FAIA)
#137: 30th Street Station - Philadelphia (Graham, Anderson, Probst & White)
#138: Robie House - Chicago (Frank Lloyd Wright)
#139: Williams Tower (Transco Tower) - Houston (Philip Johnson, FAIA, Johnson/Burgee)
#140: Stahl House (Case Study House #22) - Los Angeles (Pierre Koenig)
#141: Apple SoHo- New York City (Bohlin Cywinski Jackson)
#142: John Hancock Towers - Boston (Henry Cobb, FAIA, Pei Cobb Freed)
#143: Pennsylvania Station - New York City (McKim, Mead & White)
#144: Hyatt Regency San Francisco - San Francisco (John Portman, FAIA)
#145: Carson Pirie Scott - Chicago (Louis Sullivan, FAIA)
#146: Museum of Modern Art - New York City (Philip Goodwin, FAIA and Edward Durell Stone, FAIA)
#147: Auditorium Building - Chicago (Adler & Sullivan)
#148: Brown Palace Hotel - Denver, CO (Frank E. Edbrooke)
#149: Ingalls Ice Arena, Yale University - New Haven, CT (Eero Saarinen, FAIA)
#150: Battle Hall, University of Texas - Austin (Cass Gilbert, FAIA)
