I found myself packing up for the day at the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit last week, when I was approached by the co-founder and CEO of Idee – the makers of TinEye, Leila Boujnane. Leila wanted to chat about TinEye’s capabilities, as I’d just finished talking about the problems of orphan works, and the image … Read more
My literal interpretation of “up” and “dig.”This industry continues to overflow with acronyms. It started with ASA, then we graduated to ISO, then there was APO, then DAM, not to mention all of the associations – NPPA / ASMP / APA / EP / WHNPA / BAPLA / ASPP, and so on and so forth. … Read more
How much time do you spend on SPAM? I recieve upward of a thousand e-mails a day, and about 2% of those e-mails, I want to read, and maybe 5% I have asked for. I encourage you to spend an hour of your time watching Merlin Mann give a talk at Google about managing e-mail. … Read more
There’s a lot going on with Orphan Works behind the scenes. ASMP reported in their member announcement “…the House version of the orphan works bill is expected to go to mark-up very soon, perhaps this week or next,” and I have heard that Sen. Sam Brownback has placed a hold on the Senate version of … Read more
Just when you thought that Getty was in it’s last throws of existence, before its massive library of wholly owned content gets broken up by Hellman & Friedman and sold off for pieces, Getty comes in and lowers the bar that much further. The only upside to the impending Getty breakup will be the mass … Read more
What can I say about the Microsoft Pro Photo Summit that just concluded today on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington? Well, let’s start with what other folks have said:PDNPulse – Microsoft Targets Pro Photographers With Summit: Who Is Listening?PDNPulse – Is The Amateur The New Professional?PDNPulse – Pirates and Money and Bears, oh Microsoft!Thomas … Read more
No doubt, Donnie would have done a better job than the Iranians, who tried to hide their test failure (hey, tests fail all the time – that’s why they call them tests!). PDN reported on the false photo (Breaking News: AFP Retracts Iranian Missile Photo, 7/10/08), and I immediately thought of the good folks at … Read more
So I went looking for a link to the Copyright Office’s Form VA today, and when visiting this link:http://www.copyright.gov/forms/formva.pdfThis was the resulting page:So, what gives?(Continued after the Jump)The Copyright Office is now phasing out paper registrations in favor of their eCO (i.e. electronic Copyright Office) system. They want you go to their eCO Online System … Read more
Probably the number one comment I get about people who are looking to find reasons to avoid all the business issues of photography – that is – improving their bad practices for good ones – is that their current clients have come to accept things like buyouts/all-rights/work-for-hire; no shipping charges; no post-production charges, and so … Read more
I get that dealing with the business end of photography isn’t always comfortable. Whether it’s determing the specific fees and applicable production charges for an assignment, providing an explanation to a client about a particular item (i.e. “what is post-production? Can’t you just copy the photos off the card and burn me a CD – … Read more
