FINDING, FILING, and FUNDING. -- Asset Management Help for Photographers - One of the main tasks for digital photographers today is asset management: how to file, find, protect, and re-use their photos. The best solutions can be found in The DAM Book, Second Edition, a guide to managing digital images efficiently and effectively.
http://www.creativepro.com/article/asset-management-help-photographers
FATTENING THE BOOTY -- The National Trust photographic project has lost a high profile photographer in a competition rights row. Renowned photographer, Simon Norfolk, has pulled out of the National Trust’s
photographic project in protest over rights-grabbing terms in an associated competition run by the conservation body.
http://copyrightaction.com/forum/national-trust-lose-high-profile-photographer
COPYRIGHT HARMFUL? Economist Copyright poll - A poll at The Economist on the motion : "This house believes that existing copyright laws do more harm than good."
http://www.economist.com/debate/overview/144
http://copyrightaction.com/forum/economist-copyright-poll
Raza Khan, a driver and fixer who had worked with many photojournalists and writers covering Pakistan, was killed in a car accident on Saturday while driving photographers Lynsey Addario and Teru Kuwayama from the Jalala refugee camp to Islamabad.
http://www.pdnpulse.com/2009/05/the-importance-of-the-fixer.html
SIGHT UNSEEN. -- Visually impaired photographers display mind-boggling shots. Twelve visually impaired artists, a few of whom are totally blind, recently showed some amazing images as part of an exhibit called Sight Unseen at the University of California at Riverside.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-10238900-1.html?tag=mncol
TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE. -- "Free software for your Mac that helps you organize, share, and enjoy your photos based on the people who are in them." But the terms of service provide: In order for Blue Lava to make the Service available to you, you hereby grant Blue Lava a royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide right and license....
http://www.photoattorney.com/2009/05/sharing-love-and-your-photos.html
WHERE HAVE ALL THE ADVERTISERS GONE? -- Readers aren’t ditching magazines, Advertisers are ditching magazines. The common perception is that readers have abandoned magazines and newspapers. This perception is mostly wrong. The advertisers are the real culprit. They’ve been abandoning magazines like frightened buffalo. SOURCE: Marion Maneker
http://www.thebigmoney.com/blogs/goodnight-gutenberg/2010/01/14/readers-arent-ditching-magazines-advertisers-are-ditching-magazines TIME RUNNIN’ OUT? When Does the Time Start for Your Copyright Infringment Claim? - You have the limited time of three years to make your claim when someone infringes your copyright. But sometimes you don’t find out about the infringement until after it has occurred. So when does the three years start? SOURCE: Carolyn E. Wright, Esq.
http://www.photoattorney.com/?p=1040
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