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PhotoRESEARCHER Newsletter for August Week One ## 443A |
KEY WORDS: | Royalty Free | Subscription Service | Micropayment Sites | Guideline | Rights-Managed | Infringement | Copyright Infringement | Permission | News | NEWSWORDS: | Commercial Travel Site Swipes Photos | Cheap
Ads NFL | Capture A Photo Of Your Chihuahua? | Traveler
| Good For Editorial Photos | Photos On Stamps | Search
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Who’s Ahead of The Game?
Advance Notes: The introduction of Royalty
Free, subscription services, and micropayment sites in stock photography
creates a dilemma. But whose dilemma is it?
In blustery winter storms in the last century, farmers out here in northern Wisconsin used to tie a long rope between the farmhouse and the barn. During a blizzard, without holding onto the rope, a person could get lost in the whiteness just trying to get over to the house or barn. The rope was a life saver.
Do stock photographers need a similar lifeline today, in the face of the
storms within the stock industry?
The “storms,” of course, for stock photographers, are the
introduction of Royalty-Free, subscription services, and micropayment
sites on the Internet, along with digital cameras, which together with
bandwidth on the Internet, have introduced speedy and efficient ways of
supplying images to formerly sleeping segments of the marketplace. Once
the price of photos came down, the market expanded, thanks to technology
and the innovative spirit of both buyers and sellers.
The only guideline we need for these storms of change (“Are we out
of the storm yet?”) is history. The invention of the sewing machine
did not put the seamstress out of business. Those who could not afford
hand-tailored clothing in the past could now own three or four dresses.
This technology phenomenon repeats itself as any industry adapts and progresses.
And how have they fared – the managed-rights photographers who had
a monopoly on the industry in the 80’s and 90’s? Are they
out in the cold or have they ridden along with the flow and adapted?
SAME OL’ SAME OL’
The equation hasn’t changed all that much. In the 80’s, the
market for stock photos was small, and commercial stock photographers
were selling Rights-Managed photos for $1,000 each, while editorial photographers
were selling and re-selling one image 20 times for $50 each time. Postal
delivery of images was sufficient.
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Derek Fell |
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USE OF IMAGES IN MOVIES - INFRINGEMENT OR NOT?
I previously reported on an important decision where the use of artwork in a television series was determined to be copyright infringement. In that case, Ringgold v. Black Entertainment Television, Inc., the image was visible during nine sequences ranging from 1.86 to 4.16 seconds, or an aggregate total of 26.75 seconds in all. In a more recent case, the same Appellate Court found a different fact pattern did not constitute copyright infringement because the unauthorized use was de minimus. This ruling in Sandoval v. New Line Cinema, narrows the scope of Ringgold to the extent that the images in Sandoval etc. were basically not recognizable in the context shown, and thus the issue does not even reach the threshold necessary to be determined whether it was a fair use of the images. Want to read more of this article? Go to http://www.photosource.com/researcher/july992.html
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CHEAP ADS NFL Forcing Photojournalists to
Become Walking Billboards - The NFL has ruled that game photographers
will be required to don red vests emblazoned with Canon and
Reebok logos this season -- infuriating many photojournalists
and setting off a blogstorm of protest. http://rising.blackstar.com/nfl-forcing
-photojournalists- CAPTURE A PHOTO OF YOUR CHIHUAHUA? The high-resolution
camera can capture details as small as 6 to 12 inches, and
the company's processing system can produce orthorectified
imagery that's been corrected for perspective distortions.
Google acquires ImageAmerica to boost mapping. ImageAmerica
specialized in creating aerial photos with "accuracy,
quick delivery and low cost," selling primarily to city,
county, state and federal governments and to corporate customers.
In addition to developing its DDP-2 (Direct Digital Panoramic)
camera system, the company has its own aircraft to house it.
http://news.com.com/8301-10784_3-9748227
SEARCH YOUR SITE Google Introduces Hosted Site Search for Small Businesses - Google Inc. announced Google Custom Search™ Business Edition, a simple and inexpensive way for small businesses to add Google search to their websites. http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/25709.html
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Does this symbol need to be displayed on all your photos for you to be protected? In other words, if someone uses a photo without the permission of the photographer, but the photo does not contain a copyright notice, is that person still guilty of infringing? The answer is yes. Someone who uses a photo they see in a publication,
without getting the photographer’s permission (let alone
paying him or her), is violating copyright, whether or not
there’s a copyright notice on the photo. Under current
law, photos are protected by copyright whether or not the
photographer puts a copyright notice on them. However, the
fact that a photo does not have a copyright notice on it may
result in a lower damages award, under copyright law’s
"innocent infringer" defense.
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