Fashion Photographers To Respect Runway Show Copyright!

In a post published today, FashionReporters, reveals that, the last judgement of the French Supreme Court has rejected the appeal that some photographers had made againts the parties suing them -Chanel, Dior, Vuitton, Loewe, Gaultier and Hermes- because they had distributed the photos that they were allowed to make in 2003 at Paris Fashion Week to a website which was not on their list!

This seems like a real “punishment” of the internet fashion media, being disregarded by the French Federation of Couture, at a time when New York Fashion Week is actually giving the right to journaists to use photos produced by them free of any form of copyright.

The issue is big and could well endanger the future media coverage of designers showing in Paris. [more]

~ by fashionmafia on February 15, 2008.