It may seem unusual, but yes, those fonts you are using are graphic designs, and copyrightable. In fact, while Adobe owns a great many of them, Font Bureau owns – and creates – custom fonts for clients. Enter NBC, and their copyright/trademark/breach-of-contract, and so on. As Softpedia reports here, and The Business Insider here has … Read more
The Associated Press has released a statement regarding the case brought against them by Shepard Fairey. In a remarkable turn of events, according to the AP, “Shepard Fairey has now been forced to admit that he sued the AP under false pretenses by lying about which AP photograph he used to make the Hope and … Read more
Well, that didn’t take long! Best Business Practices, Second Edition, is now a best-seller on Amazon:In addition, it’s always nice to see people making smart decisions, and including these two books together with BBP2 really does set you up for some solid business reading!For now, Amazon has sold out on the book, however, it’s available … Read more
After three years, the second edition of Best Business Practices for Photographers is now out. Over 10,000 copies of “BBP1” have been sold, through multiple printings, and the book has remained a multiple-category best-seller on Amazon for three years. All I can say, is “thank you” to the readers!So, with well over 10,000 photographers who … Read more
For those of you Getty-ites who are no longer in the seemingly ever-shrinking inner circle of Getty Images, you’re likely missing the pie-in-the-sky missives from the Wizard himself, Mr. Jonathan Klein. Kleins’ delusions musings about the future of the stock photography industry and Getty’s place in it is like watching a CNBC panelist advise you … Read more
Since the inception of the PicScout service, which scours the web fingerprinting images and locating the uses (and occasional unauthorized use) of their clients images, PicScout’s service has been a defensive mechanism. There was no solution that actually helped connect image buyers to rights holders. Until now.PicScout announces a product they are calling “Image IRC“. … Read more
Stealing photography these days is extremely easily. A few clicks of the mouse, and its on your desktop. The video below did an amazing job of humrously illustrating how Facebook would look in the real world:In an effort to accurately illustrate how stealing photographs translates in the real world, the New York Chapter of ASMP, … Read more
In photography, especially when the assignments are third-world in nature, what is the aftermath of the assignment, once you have left; how have you left the location you were in; and what perceptions are you compounding?(Continued after the Jump)In the TED video below, Chimamanda Adichie talks about the mis-perceptions she grew up with about the … Read more
As staff positions at organizations around the country are cut, the workload needed to be accomplished on any given day does not. The common refrain I hear from people who are separated from their jobs is “how will they do all that work without me?” – and that’s a fair question.The two primary ways they … Read more
The NGO, or non-governmental organization, has made it to the forefront of well-intentioned photojournalists’ minds these days hoping to change the world with their photography. Photographers get the opportunity to travel to far-away lands, usually in the third world, to document the plight of a population, region, or other disenfranchised group. The photos are immediately … Read more
