posted by guest

Dec 23, 2008 11:20AM

LauraMili - as long as the copyright holder granted them the right to do so (i.el. they paid a fee), of course they can.

Needless to say, this does not surprise me. A lot of British publications do the same -they reuse older images and then take quotes out of context and write an entire article around them.

posted by guest

Dec 23, 2008 11:21AM

i wonder if nylon can sue them. i think they can and i think she can sue too

posted by guest

Dec 23, 2008 12:24PM

LauraMilli - Magazines reuse cover images ALL THE TIME, particularly with celebrities. Check out this Angelina Jolie photo that's been used on, like, 10 different magazine covers (and each has been photoshopped to hell in it's own special way).

http://gawker.com/5116222/foreign-cosmo-runs-the-same-angelina-jolie-covers-over-and-over-again?skyline=true&s=x

posted by etoilee8

Dec 23, 2008 2:58PM

Looks like Nylon's hard up for cash.

posted by guest

Dec 23, 2008 3:01PM

I saw this the other day and looked inside to see that the photographer and Nylon have been credited for the cover

posted by guest

Dec 23, 2008 6:32PM

the sad thing is that company is (or at least used to be) a more fun and real (funner & realer?) version of cosmo. this is a shame

posted by guest

Dec 24, 2008 7:41AM

well. nylon could have paid the photographer for exclusive rights, if they wanted exclusive rights to the image.

posted by hyst

Dec 24, 2008 10:45AM

I picked this up at heathrow yesterday on my way back to NYC and you will see in the credits that Marvin Scott Jarrett is credited as the photographer.

posted by guest

Dec 24, 2008 11:40AM

Magazines are allowed to use the same cover photograph as long as the photograph has been bought by them and is credited to the original photographer. Company has obviously (as stated in comments above) credited the original photographer. I doubt that they're stupid enough to use the same cover without paying for the rights.

posted by guest

Dec 24, 2008 11:10PM

yay leighton!

posted by rocketcup

Dec 25, 2008 5:05PM

the teeny-bopper mags like bop and tiger beat used to do this all the time. there are only so many pics of the jonas brothers and such to go around. i used to notice as at 12-year-old putting up backstreet boys pics on my walls. one mag would take a pic from another and flip the image and publish it.

posted by guest

Dec 26, 2008 1:22AM

here's a similar situation;
uma thurman shot for anOther magazine:
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s290/laura123laura_2007/umathurmancoveranothermxv1.jpg and http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s290/laura123laura_2007/umathurmananothermagazidj3.jpg

and then australaian harper's bazaar used the images later on for a supposedly 'never seen bofore' type thing...
http://i155.photobucket.com/albums/s290/laura123laura_2007/scangd6.jpg

xo

posted by guest

Dec 28, 2008 6:11PM

Photographers only license their images for use, almost no circumstances are the rights transferred. This applies to editorial as well as advertising.

Contrary to popular belief most of these publications don't even have any formal agreements with the photographers to prohibit them from allowing other publications to use them (even with specific commissions). But obviously to keep the business relationship sweet there is an unspoken understanding in the industry.

The Magazines never own these images. Some photogrpahers have special agreements eg Mert & Marcus only shoot fashion for Conde Nast magazines.

Magazines that republish shoots are usually filled with stock images.

Nylon will in all likeliness have no right to sue.

AA

posted by Style Guru

Feb 21, 2009 1:50AM

Yes they can do this. This especially happens with the expensive fashion magazines like gap collections etc. which cover the runway fashion shows. I seriously doubt that reputed magazines like nylon & co. will bootleg images.

Style Guru