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PhotoRESEARCHER Newsletter for September Week Two ## 444B |
KEY WORDS: | Printer | Cartridges | Computer Keyboard | Built-In Obsolescence | Manufacturer | Marketing Strategy | Internet | Customer | Code | Cartridges | Information For Photobuyers | Re-Use | Supreme Court | Court Of Appeals | Lexis-Nexis |
NEWSWORDS: | ASPP Copyright Probram | Prices Falling | The Largest and the Smallest | Scratchin' Backs | Mea Culpa | The Big Show | Social Potography | Keeping Memories Alive | Down Deep | Take A Tour |
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The Case Of The
Broken Printer
Advance Notes: When your printer says, “I quit,” don’t believe it. There are remedies for “failing” printers (just like there are for “failing” computers). Here’s one:
After a few spurtings, coughings, and hic-cuppings, my color printer (XYZ r77) rolled over and played dead. It lay there with a slight grin as if to say, “Going, going…”
I flipped through the Manual of Resuscitations For Printers and found mention of a few Band-Aids. None worked. But a faint heartbeat in my printer was still there.
A warning message appeared on my computer screen that said, ‘parts in my printer had reached their normal life span and would now have to be replaced.’ UGH! What the printer (the manufacturer) is essentially telling me, is that I ‘have to buy a new printer.’
And my little pea brain is telling me, “I have to buy that same printer, because I have a barrel-full of color cartridges I just bought that fit exactly into my singular XYZ r77. Otherwise what’ll I do with them…try to sell them on eBay?
Nice going XYZ… You’ve devised a marketing strategy that will marry a customer to your printer for life!
THE DIAGNOSTICIAN
Enter Bruce, our ace technology expert here at Photosource International.
Bending over and stretching to pull plugs, flipping panels, access doors and buttons, Bruce scratched his head. He put my printer through a few routines with his stethoscope, to no avail. Nothing was happening.
Then he grinned back at the r77. He sat down and started pecking away at the computer keyboard.
That’s when I left to go back to easier jobs like dumping the cat litter box.
No word from Bruce.
About a half hour later, he emerged from the operating room.
“It’s fixed.”
“How’d you do it?”
“I found a hack for it.”
“What’s that?”
“I went onto an Internet chat group for XYZ printers, and found a Russian guy who figured out the software code to counteract the XYZ trojan that was telling the printer to shut down and the customer to get new expired parts.”
“You mean the printer wasn’t really ready to call it quits?”
“No.”
“You mean XYZ puts a built-in obsolescence code in their printers?”
“Yep.”
And that’s not the end of the story. We also have another “dead” printer of the aforementioned brand name that had sputtered and died last year. We’d stashed it away covered up in a back room. Bruce takes it out, applies a similar hack code, and yes, there IS an after-life for printers. The Russian guy had a resurrection code for that one, too.
And, it gets even better. We had a boxful of color cartridges for that printer too, about $150 worth.
By the way, I’m printing this message to you on my ol’ XYZ r77.
Rohn Engh, veteran stock photographer and publisher of “PhotoRESEARCHER Newsletter,” has provided on-line targeted information for photobuyers, photo researchers and editors for two decades. No other newsletter brings photobuyers such up-to-the minute, practical intimately familiar with both sides of the stock photo desk. For more info: https://www.photosource.com/photobuyer/.
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Is Payment Made For The Re-Use Question Goes to the Top Court in the Land
Advance Notes : What happens when a publisher re-uses a photographer’s photograph? Does the photographer deserve a second payment? By Joel Hecker, Esq. Ed. Note: Here’s the background, and here’s the conclusion. (July 1999) In my reports in this newsletter on the case of Tasini v. The New York Times, I've stated that in my opinion the outcome of this case will determine whether a publisher can re-use photos (or text) for electronic use (digital delivery) without paying an extra fee. Re-use fees, of course, have historically been the norm in the stock photo industry. Along came the Internet, and somehow, many publishers assumed that they didn't have to pay additional fees when they used a photo (from a previous one-time usage purchase or previous freelance assignment) on their website, in online databases, on CD-ROMs, etc. TO THE SUPREME COURT The original trial court judgment of the Tasini case held that electronic publication of a freelancer's work was a permissible "revision." A three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals unanimously overturned that ruling in September 1999, and held that The Times and other publishers (Newsday, Time Incorporated, and Lexis-Nexis) were infringing freelancers' copyrights by posting writing and photos on-line without permission from freelancers. The Appeals Court also refused to re-hear a counter appeal by The New York Times et al. The publishers then asked (and got) the Supreme Court to hear the case. As yet, no date has been set for the hearing of the appeal. Want to read more of this article? Go to http://www.photosource.com/researcher/jan012A.html .
CHANGES Each month we report to you moves among, within and between: publishing houses, stock agencies, photobuyers, photo researchers, ad agencies, and design firms. RESPONSE MAGAZINE ( 475 Riverside Dr #1501, New York, NY 10015) former contact and e-mail: Dana Jones, Editor, djones@gbgm-umc.org ; current contact and e-mail: Barbara Wheeler, Editor, bwheeler@gbgm-umc.org. DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE ( 1101 Forteenth St NW Ste 1400, Washington, DC 20005) former contact and e-mail: Mary Selden, Photo Editor, photobuyer@defenders.org; current contact and e-mail: Peter Corcoran, Designer, photobuyer@defenders.org. AMERICAN FITNESS MAGAZINE ( 15250 S Ventura Blvd Ste 200, Sherman Oaks, CA 91403) former contact: Bonnie Lee, Co-Managing Editor; current contact: Kevin McGuire, Co-Managing Editor.
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PRICES FALLING. Getty Slashes Prices for Web Use - Getty Images has announced a new Web-use price of $49 for a 500k 72DPI file of any of its images, regardless of brand or pricing model. http://rising.blackstar.com/getty-slashes-prices THE LARGEST AND THE SMALLEST. Fotolia Has Web's Largest Micro-Priced Image Library - Top Fotolia photographers see a net return of between $12 and $36 US per accepted image per year. Fotolia's elite photographers net a revenue of between $5 and $10K US per month. http://www.stockphotographer.info/content/view/578/92/ SCRATCHIN' BACKS. CondeNet and MSNBC Enter Content-Sharing Deal - Included in the new partnership are CondeNet sites Style.com, Men.Style.com, Epicurious.com and Concierge.com, as well as content from Conde Nast mags Vogue, Glamour, Self, GQ, Details, Men's Vogue, Vanity Fair, Gourmet, Bon Appetit, Conde Nast Traveler and Conde Nast Portfolio. http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=120140 MEA CULPA. Photographer Complaints Derail Modern Postcard-iStockphoto Deal - Following a spontaneous uprising of angry photographers, Modern Postcard announced Tuesday that it is ending its relationship with iStockphoto immediately. http://www.pdno THE BIG SHOW. American PHOTO Images of the Year 2007 Call For Entries - Deadline for DEADLINE entries must be postmarked no later than midnight, September 14th, 2007. http://www.popphoto.com/photographynewswire/4029 SOCIAL PHOTOGRAPHY. Humanity, not sweetly, through a camera's grip; Today it seems like anyone wielding a cell phone is a documentarian of current events. But what do those emerging Everyman images mean for the world of professional photography? Legendary photographer Bruce Davidson has some ideas. http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/oregonian/index.ssf? KEEPING MEMORIES ALIVE. Photographer Mario Algaze has shifted his global lens closer to home; A quiet life in suburban South Miami is a long way from shooting a KISS concert in 1973 or a forthrightly nude Nina Simone in Paris, but Mario Algaze's 40-year career in photography means that no memory is ever neglected. http://www.miamiherald.com/274/story/221917.html DOWN DEEP. SANYO has launched Xacti VPC-CA65 is the first digital movie camera specifically designed for underwater photography and videography.with a remarkably expressive 6.37-megapixel primary-color CCD, CA65 converts images collected by the 6-megapixel CCD to the recorded equivalent of 10-megapixel (3680 x 2760 pixels). http://www.ameinfo.com/130690.html TAKE A TOUR. Photoshelter, Apple, Others Host 6-City Photography 2.0 Tour Apple, Photoshelter, HP and other industry leaders have announce a series of town hall meetings called Photography 2.0. The meeting is designed to bring together photographers and media buyers as well as those who aid both. http://www.macobserver.com/article/2007/08/31.6.shtml
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Edward Wallowitch. His outstanding editorial photography inspired yours truly in the early 70’s to enter the field and begin selling images to book publishers. Wallowitch passed away some years ago, and his heirs have now decided to offer Wallowitch’s entire collection for sale, to a private collector, museum, or stock library. 3 of his photos appeared in the PBS TV series on Andy Warhol. For more information, contact John Wallowitch, 411 East 51st Street, #1 , NYC 10022 (212) 753-5748; wallowitch@juno.com – Rohn Engh ####################
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#################### “Almost every one of my clients is as aware as I am of the lobbying Rohn Engh has done for years for "big city" photographers like me in Chicago- in addition to his yeoman work for my confreres situated all over the Republic and beyond. The amazing thing to me from the beginning many years ago, is that Rohn and his gifted staff of marketers have been able to accurately divine the pulse of our industry from a redoubt in Wisconsin! Each PhotoSourceBOOK and each encounter with PhotoSourceBANK makes me currently aware of their skills and importance. And spurs and inspires me and my new archivist to comb my vast Time-Life files for salable material. Rohn and company have been responsible for many a successful treasure hunt through territory I had too long overlooked. I recommend PSI not only to fellow old-timers- (hey, I've done more than 1000 covers and had 25,000 pictures printed - many in my 65 or so books-) but especially to newcomers in the new, fantastic digital environment. How else would my recent 1014th cover - a nude of philosopher Simone de Beauvoir c.1954- have made it to last month's cover of a French magazine- which brought me an offer to exhibit in Paris come Spring. Keep on truckin'.....” - Art Shay, Photographer, Chicago
#################### TRAVELERS ABROAD Photobuyers: Watch this column. For the e-mail address, phone or fax number of the traveling photographer, call the PhotoSource International office and ask for Rohn Engh (1 800 624-0266). For an expansion of this list: www.photosource.com and press the Travelers Abroad button, to learn of past international destinations of our photographers. Pamela York Shawn McGrath
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