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than shipping it as air cargo. Plus it
clears customs quicker, instead of
sitting for days in customs as cargo
often does.
The major-
ity of the flights
originate in
New York, Mi-
ami, L.A. and
San Francisco.
Some leave from
Houston, Chi-
cago, Vancou-
ver, Toronto, and
Montreal. Once
overseas you can link up with other
courier
compa-
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You pay only $250 for your round-trip ticket. Must be in our office on Tuesday
morning, 11:00 am June 14th. Flight leaves at 2pm. Arrives in Rome June 15th
3:00 am. Return flight must be made within seven days.
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Week One Number 452A
Volume 16
Key words in this issue: Round-
Trip Ticket | Courier Flying | Dis-
count Travel | Libraries | Archives |
Museums | Section 108 | Executive
Summary | Carry On Bag | Web Sites
| Research | Scholarship | Congres-
sional Bearings |
NEWSWORDS: Sign Here | Keeping
Up | Slipping Away? | For Travelers
Only | See How The Pros Do It | Have
Fun | Sign Of The Times | Who Was
This Guy? | Do Pictures Lie? | Rightly
So! | Only Good Eyes Wanted | Why
Were They Taken? | Expert Hobo |
A Young Robert Mapplethorpe | Now
That’s Big | Costly Frame |
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Would you like to fly to Rome
and back for $250 or to other exotic
cities for super-discounted air tick-
ets? Sometimes
free?
Budget-
minded stock
photographers
are finding that
“courier flying”
is an inexpen-
sive way to take
picture-gather-
ing trips abroad.
How? You baby-
sit someone else’s package. Courier
companies have found that shipping
freight as luggage is less expensive
Work Your Way to Europe....
FLY NOW; Don’t Pay Later
Three years ago, the Library of
Congress formed an independent
study group under the auspices
of the Copyright Office and the
National Digital Information Infra-
structure and Preservation Program,
to address how libraries, archives
and museums deal with copyrighted
materials in fulfilling their missions
in the digital environment. Its mis-
sion statement was:
The purpose of the Section 108
Study Group is to conduct a reex-
amination of the exceptions and
limitations applicable to libraries
and archives under the Copyright
Act, specifically in light of digital
technologies. The group will study
how section 108 of the Copyright
Act may need to be amended to
address the relevant issues and con-
cerns of libraries and archives, as
well as creators and
other copyright hold-
ers. The group will
provide findings and
recommendations
on how to revise the
copyright law in or-
der to ensure an appropriate balance
among the interests of creators and
other copyright holders, libraries
and archives in a manner that best
serves the national interest.
The Study Group has now has
issued its Report and recommenda-
tions, which can be read in its entire-
ty of 201 pages at
. The 14 page Executive Sum-
mary is available at the same site.
Section 108 of the Copyright
Act provides limited exceptions
for libraries and archives, permit-
ting them to make copies to replace
copyrighted works in their collec-
tions when necessary to preserve
them for the long term and make
them available to users.
Among the recommendations
made by the Study Group are the
following:
- Museums should be included,
along with libraries and archives, for
Section 108 eligibility, as they per-
form many of the same functions.
- A new exception should be add-
ed to Section 108 to permit certain
qualified libraries, archives and mu-
seums to make preservation copies
of published works determined to be
“at risk” prior to any damage or loss.
Access to these “preservation-only”
copies will be limited.
- There should be an additional
exception to Section 108 to permit
libraries, archives and museums
to capture and reproduce publicly
available web sites and other online
content, solely for preservation
purposes, and to make those copies
accessible to users for private study,
research
Library of Congress...
For Libraries, Archives and Museums
COPYRIGHT SECTION 108
STUDY UNDERWAY
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nies that fly elsewhere.
DISCOUNT TRAVEL
Usually the courier company will
pay 50% to 85% of the cost of the
flight of its couriers. In rare cases,
when a last minute time-sensitive
assignment comes up, they’ll pay
100% of the flight.
Central and South American
flights often leave within 24 hours.
European flights are usually sched-
uled further in advance, except in
winter when deadlines seem to be
shorter.
There are some drawbacks: usu-
ally you can travel with only one
carry-on bag of your own. You of-
ten have to be at the courier’s office
three hours before flight time. If two
people want to travel on the same
assignment, such as a husband-wife
team, one would have to leave one
day, the other on a separate courier
assignment arranged for the next
day.
There are some qualifications
required to be eligible to be a courier
but they are easily met. Details are
explained in the “So You Want To
Be A Courier” info sheet sent out to
you for the cost of a self-addressed
stamped envelope.
Here are your contacts: Ms.
Barbara Whitting, WORLD COU-
RIER INC., 125 Whipple St., 2nd
Flr., Providence, RI 02908. (401)
459-0990, FAX (401) 459-0992;
Kath Craig, President, COURIER.
ORG, PO Box 31279, Omaha, NE
68131. (412) 281-1982. (Ask about
the “Shoestring Traveler Newslet-
ter”).
Bon Voyage!
Library of Congress Section 108
Continued from page 1
STOCK PHOTO
AGENCIES can be an outlet
for some of your pictures. Do
agencies object to you market-
ing your own pictures when they
also represent you? No, not the
established ones. They encour-
age you to also market on your
own. They want to share the
sales with you, and also to share
the setbacks. They know that a
photographer who markets pic-
tures on his/her own will under-
stands the pitfalls (and glories)
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or scholarship. It would also permit
copyright holders to opt-out of these
provisions.
- Libraries, archives and muse-
ums would be permitted to make a
limited number of copies, as rea-
sonably necessary (in place of the
current three-copy limit) to create
and maintain a single replacement
or preservation copy. This would
enable libraries to more securely
preserve digital materials.
The Report is obviously long,
very comprehensive and thorough.
Congressional hearings and pro-
posed legislation will undoubted
follow. As with most legislation,
however, all sides to each issue will
weigh in to protect perceived or real
interests. Therefore, this Report
should be viewed solely as a useful
tool which forms the basis for the
commencement of the process.
Attorney Joel L. Hecker lectures and writes
extensively on issues of concern to the photog-
raphy industry. His office is located at Russo &
Burke, 600 Third Ave, New York NY 10016.
Phone: 1 212 557-9600. E-mail: HeckerEsq@aol.
com.
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SIGN HERE. Rights, Camera, Action - A dispute over photographs taken at state tourna-
ments is affecting how Illinois newspapers cover interscholastic athletics. Some papers are protesting the Illinois High
School Association’s requirement that photographers sign an agreement that restricts the use of pictures they take.
KEEPING UP. Getty Images Reports Financial Results for the First Quarter of 2008. Revenue increased
9.7 percent to $233.2 million from $212.7 million.
SLIPPING AWAY? Getty Says Merger May Not Happen Until Third Quarter - While revenue is
up 9.2 percent over the same quarter last year, profits are down almost 18 percent compared to last year.
FOR TRAVELERS ONLY. Digital Cameras For The Road. In Pictures: 10 Top Digital Cameras For
Travelers.
SEE HOW THE PROS DO IT. Getty Images Podcast Interviews Bring Award-Winning Images to
Life - To honor the work of its photographers, Getty Images has developed an on-going series of podcasts featuring
interviews with some of its award-winners sharing their experiences behind their imagery.
HAVE FUN. 12 Ideas to Reduce Stress and Have More Fun on the Job - Have fun, and in the
process, reduce your stress and help create a more productive, innovative and fun work environment.
SIGN OF THE TIMES. Local chambers of commerce and tourism folks have been taking a lot
of flak lately. Take for example, the recent photography debacle. It seems that some believe that the Adirondack
Regional Tourism Council has been working on putting local photographers out of work by encouraging others to
abandoned them in favor of, get this, flickr.
WHO WAS THIS GUY? This could only happen in secretive France, full of untapped art caches.
Around 1887, a photographer who used the pseudonym Dornac started doing the rounds of Paris society, explaining
to his sitters that he planned to build up a photographic survey of the great and the good. Forty years later, Dornac
published his portraits under the title “Our Contemporaries at Home” and made a hit. Some sitters like Rodin or
Verlaine are famous. Yet, Dornac soon faded from memory and with his death, so did any desire to find out who
Dornac really was.
DO PICTURES LIE? Photography Does Sell Real Estate when buying a house. “Photography, photography,
photography” will soon be the new advice when selling. But is it good photography?
RIGHTLY SO! National Geographic Wins 3 Awards, Honored Beyond Photography This year the honors
reflect the efforts of National Geographic, long recognized for top-flight photography, to elevate the rest of its offer-
ings.
The featured Photographer this
week on the PhotoSourceFolio is
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ONLY GOOD EYES WANTED. 123RF.com Unveils the EVO Label - Contribution to EVO is a by in-
vitation-only and portfolios of possible candidates are evaluated by a panel consisting of experienced directors of
photography and art directors. The criteria for selection are a good eye for highly stock related shots.
WHY WERE THEY TAKEN? Errol Morris’s new film, “Standard Operating Procedure,” is not about the Abu
Ghraib prison scandal. It is about the photographs themselves, and what went on in and around them, before, during
and after they were taken. Perhaps the most baffling question surrounding them is why they were taken at all.
EXPERT HOBO. Passion for photographing trains began with boyhood. The one thing Richard
Kindig liked better than riding trains was taking pictures of them. Kindig, who shot an estimated 50,000 photographs
of trains, died April 7. He was 92.
A YOUNG ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE. Whitney Museum of American Art presents “Polaroids: by
Robert Mapplethorpe”. A little-known body of early work by Robert applethorpe (1946-89) is presented in Pola-
roids: Mapplethorpe, opening on May 3, 2008, at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Best-known for the highly
stylized and neoclassically inspired works he made between the late 1970s and his death in 1989, Mapplethorpe’s
mature work was in fact preceded by an important but largely unknown body of over 1,500 photographs made with
Polaroid cameras between 1970 and 1975, when Mapplethorpe was in his twenties.
NOW THAT’S BIG. With each 5-by-11-foot panel, a few riders became a race, and an eyesore
began to transform into what will be a colorful, 87-foot-long snapshot of the R ochester Criterium. This is the latest
installment in the slowly developing Big Picture Rochester project. Big Picture is Kenichiro “Ken” Sato’s idea. His
goal: To create the world’s largest outdoor photo gallery.
COSTLY FRAME. Parrot’s $500 designer photo frame - The frame has 10MB of, which
is enough space for about 400 photos. This is made possible through a combination of magic and compression.
