photography

WIPO Photography Prize for Indigenous Peoples and Local Community Youth 2021-2022

Through this competition, WIPO aims to celebrate and make widely known the creativity of Indigenous and local community youth, as well as raise their awareness on how copyright can be used to protect their creativity expressed in the photographs. The theme of the WIPO Photography Prize is Climate Change and Climate Action: Mother Earth through our Lenses. Participation is meant to encourage Indigenous and local community youth to express themselves on this issue of immense global significance.

Word of the Day: Selfie

Selfie
photo: Pixabay

The person who takes a selfie will be the first owner of copyright in it. For the purpose of establishing ownership of copyright in a photograph, it does not matter who owns the device that was used to take the selfie.

Did you know it is almost certain that the term selfie originates from Australia where a drunk youngster first used the word to describe a self-portrait made a decade ago?