## PhotoRESEARCHER Newsletter for October 409

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Internet Life Begins at 35

By Bill Hopkins

The Internet. It started 35 years ago this month of September. So if you're thirty-five years old, you're as old as the Internet. And of course, being the Internet -we are bound to have some controversy. In this case, it's about the date of birth. Most people believe it to be September 2, 1969, when two computers at the University of California, Los Angeles were linked in a lab via a 15-foot cable and sent test data back and forth. Some, however, view the birth date as January 1, 1983, when 400 or so computers on the ARPANET (the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network*) switched to a new protocol called TCP/IP. A few years after 1969 came e-mail. Next, in the late 70's, was the development of TCP/IP, the core communications methodology used today, followed in the 80's by the domain name system where it was no longer necessary to type that dotted decimal notation. For example, instead of typing http://217.160.248.180, you could type http://www.photosource.com. Then came the Web. We all know what the Web hath wrought. And of course, the Internet is ever-inspiring new aspects (think SPAM and security). Here are some items in the pipeline and/or being tested:

NEW DEVELOPMENTS

New security protocols are being looked at and developed. A next-generation numbering system called IPv6, to expand the number of available IP addresses (unique numbers without which you couldn't get anywhere on the Internet). A "parallel" Internet network dubbed Internet2, available to selected universities, institutions, and companies, that offers up to 100 times the speed of typical broadband. Internet telephoning (discussed in the prior PhotoResearcher Newsletter). And some companies are laying fiber optic cable right into homes instead of using the fiber just for trunk lines. Even NASA is in on this, working on a way to extend the Internet into space for improved communications with spacecraft and satellites. Of course, here come the naysayers, companies that value profit over public good and government agencies that want to censor (or monitor or tax or spy on) information flow.

Want to read more of this article? Go to: http://www.photosource.com/researcher/gen667.html

Archival vs. Poly Pages

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Should photographers use archival or poly pages for storing their transparencies?

This question might at first seem a moot point, now that 'digital' has arrived. But please be aware that many photobuyers, especially at graphic houses and ad agencies, still require slides rather than digital images.

I have not figured out whether the question of 'archival' sleeves for slide storage is myth, hype, or reality. At my seminars, people tell me of their problems with polyvinylchloride (the cheaper, sturdy, sleeves). However, those particular complaints are from people who live in places like New Orleans, Washington DC, and San Francisco -- probably the most humid places in the nation.

One reality: the archival sleeves don't 'hold' slides in the sleeves well. Example: An art director holds an archival slide page up to the light; something slips out unnoticed onto the floor, the art director steps on it and says, "What's this under my foot?" There's not much archival quality to a slide that's been stepped on.

My recommendation for this controversy:

Store slides in filing cabinets in 'archival' pages, and send slides to a photobuyer in the thick, strong, 'poly' pages. -Rohn Engh

CHANGES

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Each month we report to you, moves among, within and between: publishing houses, stock agencies, photo buyers, photo researchers, agencies, and design firms.

HER SPORTS MAGAZINE (15979 Via De Las Palmas, Rancho Santa Fe, CA 92091) former phone: 1 858 759-7441; current phone: 1 858 337-6617.

POCKET BOOKS (1230 Sixth Ave, New York, NY 10020) former contact, phone and fax: John Ordover, Editor, 1 212 698-7576, 1 212 632-8083; current contact, phone and fax: Marco Palmieri, Editor, 1 212 698-7271, 1 212 632-3549.

SENIOR WORLD - ARIZONA, former company name and address: Senior World - Arizona, 2207 S. 48 St, Tempe, AZ 85282; current company name and address: LOVIN' LIFE NEWS, 40 N Sunway Dr Ste 1, Gilbert, AZ 85233.

ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON (PO Box 265, Boston, MA 02117-0265) former contact: Richard Bryant, Editor; current contact and e-mail: Ted Clark, Editor, tclark@arlboston.org .

NEW LEAF PRESS INC (PO Box 311, Green Forest, AR 72638) former contact: Harriett Dudley, Editor In Chief; current contact and e-mail: Brent Sperlock, Editor, brent@newleafpress.net .

MACALLISTER PUBLISHING SERVICES (3646 North Washington Blvd, Indianapolis, IN 46205) former contact and e-mail: Christine Hackerd, Project Manager, chackerd@macps.com; current contact and e-mail: Beth Brown, Project Manager, bbrown@macps.com .

SHEPHERD INC, former address: PO Box 139, 18319 US Route 20 W, East Dubuque, IL 61025-0139; current address: 137 Main St, Ste 200, Dubuque, IA 52001-0714.

CALIFORNIA WILD, former address 55 Concourse Drive Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118; current address: and phone: 825 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94118. Contact person, Kathleen Wong, Editor. Former phone: 1 415 750-7116; current phone: 1 415 321-8188.

PETA (501 Front St, Norfolk, VA 23510) former contact, phone and e-mail: Amanda Nieves, Publications Assistant, 1 757 622-7382, Amanda@peta.org; current contact, phone and e-mail: Roxanne Conwell, Publications Assistant, 1 757 962-8316, RoxanneC@peta.org .

OUTREACH MARKETING (2560 Progress St, Vista, CA 92083) Contact: Liz Hart's name changed to Liz Duffy. Former e-mail: liz@outreachmarketing.com; current e-mail: lduffy@outreachmarketing.com .

HACHETTE FILIPACCHI CUSTOM PUBLISHING (460 W 34th St, 20th Fl, New York, NY 10001) former contact: Amy Harris, Photo Editor; current contact and e-mail: Kitt Harris, Photo Editor, kharris@hfmus.com .

WAVELAND PRESS INC, former address: PO Box 400, Prospect Heights, IL 60070; current address: 4180 IL Route 83, Ste 101, Long Grove, IL 60047.

PEARSON EDUCATION (1 Lake St, IRC, Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458) contact person, Elaine Soares, Visual Researcher. Former phone and fax: 1 201 785-2754, 1 973 893-0434; current phone and fax: 1 201 236-5813, 1 201 236-5865.

QUARASAN (405 W Superior, Chicago, IL 60610) former contact: Jill Kelly, Photo Researcher; current contact and e-mail: Brigette Sullivan, Photo Researcher, brigette_sullivan@quarasan.com .

SPECTRUM STOCK INC, former address and phone: 239 McRae Drive, Toronto, ONT, M4G 1T7, CANADA, 1 905 309-8517; current address, phone and fax: 33 Main St W, 2nd Fl, Grimsby, ONT, L3M 1R3, CANADA, 1 905 309-8518, 1 905 309-9128.

HEINEMANN LIBRARY (100 N LaSalle, Ste 1200, Chicago, IL 60602) contact person, Jill Birschbach, Photo Editor. Former e-mail: jill@hil.com; current e-mail: jill.birschbach@hil.com .

PRONK & ASSOCIATES INC (One Valleybrook Drive, Ste 400, Don Mills, ONT, M3B 2S7, CANADA) former contact and e-mail: Lisa Gardner, Lisag@pronk.com ; current contact and e-mail: Sherri Wilkins, Sherri@pronk.com .

HIGHLIGHTS FOR CHILDREN (803 Church St, Honesdale, PA 18431) contact person, Jane Martin, Photo Editor. Former fax and e-mail: 1 703 765-9063, fotoeditor@cox.net ; current fax and e-mail: 1 703 765-2939, fotoeditor@comcast.net .

JONES PUBLISHING (Box 5000, Lola, WI, 54945) former contact: Nicholas Lujero, Art Director; current contact: Curt Harrington, Art Director.

JACKSON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE (PO Box 550, Jackson, WY, 83001) former contact: Jan Hutchenson, Communications Manager; current contact: Kelly Barbbello, Communications Manager.

IMAGEQUEST (131 Burgess Ave, Toronto, ONTARIO, M4E 1X3, CANADA) contact person Gina Cali, Visual Researcher. Former e-mail: image_quest@sympatico.ca ; current e-mail: gina_cali@cbc.com .

ILLUSTRATED SCIENCE (130 Strandboulevarden, Copenhagen, COPENHAGEN, 2100, DENMARK) contact person Peter Eberhardt, Picture Editor. Former e-mail: petere@bp.bonnier.dk ; current e-mail: peter.eberhardt@illvid.dk .

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PHOTOBUYER EASY LISTING. If you are listing more than one photo need, or several aspects of a need, you can make things clear if you number each aspect or subject. Use numbers and letter designations if the subject has several categories. Responding photographers will identify their submissions by using your number and letter designations. [Example] 1.) Shetland Sheepdog a.) fighting with bulldog b.) sleeping on mattress c.) running with poodle.

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Court Untangles Bureaucratic Catch-22

Many of us have at one time or another faced the nightmare of bureaucratic rules which seemingly have no possible resolution.

A recent New York County Supreme Court decision untied such a knot with appropriate references to Joseph Heller's Catch-22 and Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Although the case did not involve photography matters, the issues are universal.

In 1988, the petitioner obtained a marriage license from the City Clerk and was married to husband number one. They had two children whose births were duly certified, recorded and filed with the City Department of Health. In 1995, husband number one died in an accident. His death was also duly certified and recorded with the applicable authorities.

In 1998, the petitioner obtained the requisite marriage license from the City Clerk and married husband number two. The marriage certificate was duly recorded as required. Unfortunately a divorce followed which was (of course) duly filed on April 14, 2004.

Petitioner met and wanted to marry husband number three. As stated in the decision, "she took the familiar trip to the City Clerk's Office to obtain a marriage license." Instead, she was informed she was ineligible (!) for another marriage license because, according to the City Clerk's records, she was concurrently married to two other men!

Want to read more of this article? Go to: http://www.photosource.com/researcher/legal114.html

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"Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion...the subject must be something

you truly love or truly hate." - Dorothea Lange

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LOOKING FOR A HARD-TO-FIND PHOTO? It's simple. Using the search engine Google, in the search bar, type in the keyword (s) describing your photo need, then a space, then the word photosource. Presto! The name of a photographer(s) having that particular photo in his/her file will come up at the top of your screen. Contact the photographer and negotiate for a fee. >www.google.com <

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TRAVELERS ABROAD

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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 Lela LeBree (1 800 223-3860). For an expansion of this list: www.photosource.com and press the Travelers Abroad button, to learn of past international destinations of our photographers.

Susan Brannon

August 3 - September 21, 2004

Roma, Sicily

Marc C. Johnson

August 3 - August 29, 2004

Vilnius, Lithuania

September 4 - September 10, 2004

Olso, Norway

September 14 - September 22, 2004

Lithuania

Barry Hollritt

August 1 - August 18, 2004

Nova Scotia

Jurgen Ankenbrand

September 3 - September 9

Bergen, Northern Norway

Cat Stoothoff

(October 4 - November 17, 2004

England

October 18 - October 22, 2004

Belfast, Ireland)

Yeltzin

January 3 - March 22, 2005

Canary Islands

April 2 - July 18, 2005

Cyprus

Picture Rights

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"If a photographer 'sells' a picture to a client, do they lose their 'rights' to that picture?"

The Copyright Law of 1976 (enacted into law on Jan. 1st 1978) places special emphasis on this question. A photo belongs to the photographer, from the moment they snap the shutter. The law protects the creator of the "work" (in this case, a photograph) by making the assumption that unless it is otherwise stated in writing, the ownership of the work rests with the creator of the work, not the buyer of the "license" to use it. In other words, if a photographer is on assignment to take specific pictures for a client, and no written statement is made regarding ownership (not just "use" rights) of the resulting pictures -- the photographer owns them. In the old days (pre-1976) it was assumed that the client who purchased the license to use the photo, owned the picture. Now it's considered that when a client "purchases" a picture for use, they are only "renting" the picture for that use. Ownership (copyright) stays with the photographer.

WORK FOR HIRE

Some clients will be aware of this stipulation and will include on their contract form or agreement letter, this phrase: "Work For Hire." If a photographer signs such an agreement or contract, they do relinquish their rights to the picture(s).

Here are definitions of "rights" that are commonly accepted in the industry:

One-time rights -- the client or publication has permission to use the picture only once. Most stock photos are 'rented' or 'leased' on a one-time-use basis.

First Rights -- the same as one-time rights, except that the client or publication pays a little more for the opportunity to be the first to publish the picture(s).

Exclusive rights -- the client or publication has exclusive reproduction rights of the photograph for a specified amount of time. Example: one or two years for a post card, or three years for a brochure. After that time the photograph rights return to the photographer.

Want to read more of this article? Go to: http://www.photosource.com/researcher/gen660.html

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"If It Can Fail..."

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In a recent article in PhotoAimLite, freelance travel photographer and PSN columnist Jeremy Hoare related how "the Nixvue Vista 30GB portable hard drive I bought failed spectacularly, losing the 250 pictures I'd already downloaded and erased from the CF cards." There's an important message here, namely this: "If it's a technological tool it can fail, and if it has moving parts it will fail." The only question is when, not if. No solution is completely safe, but redundancy comes close.

Like Hoare, we also opted for the Nixvue portable hard drive for storing our images while traveling. But we bought two of them. "That's understandable, there are two of you." No, that's not it. We bought the larger capacity 40GB version, and we each back up all of our shots to both units. If one fails, we've got the other.

Similarly we have two 160GB hard disks in our primary computer. After uploading new images or completing a Photoshop session, the top-level images folder is copied to the second hard disk. If one fails, we've got the other. Once a week we back up our images to yes, you guessed it, two DVDs-from two different manufacturers. One we store near-at-hand in our home office, the other in a safe-deposit box at our bank. There are no 100 percent guarantees, but with redundant backups you can come pretty close. And the next time technological tool termination attacks, just call out the reserves. - David Arnold\Gail Rutman.

FORGIVING AND FORGETTING

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by Julian Block, Esq.

My experience as an attorney who provides advice on taxes for people in the stock photography industry, is that folks frequently learn the expensive way that the IRS slaps stiff penalties on tardy taxpayers who miss the deadlines for filing returns or making payments. To get the feds to waive a penalty, you have to convince them that the delay was "due to reasonable cause and not due to willful neglect."

The tax enforcers have long-standing guidelines on what this means. Though the agency tells its examiners to judge each case by its own facts, there are certain circumstances that will generally excuse a late filing or payment.

EXCUSES, EXCUSES. So what cause is reasonable? Here are some IRS examples of generally acceptable excuses:

Records not available: For reasons beyond the taxpayer's control, records necessary to compute the tax were not obtainable.

Late delivery: While the taxpayer mailed the return or payment in time to reach the IRS by the deadline, through no fault of the taxpayer, it was delivered late.

Want to read more of this article? Go to: http://www.photosource.com/researcher/txtct95.html

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White Mailers

Sending a disk or slides? Look like a pro. Stiff white cardboard mailers are available at: MAILERS, 575 Bennett Rd, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007, Attn: Pat Pulver; http://www.mailersco.com . Phone: 1 800 872-6670. Fax: 1 847 731-2603.

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WORKSHOP

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SCENIC MOUNTAINS & WATERS OF CHINA. October 17 - November 1, 2004. This 16-day tour will include the misty peaks of magical Huangshan (the Yellow Emperor's Mountain), Li River, West Lake; Shanghai, Beijing & the Great Wall. Cost: $3,695 per person, for land only. The land price includes four domestic flights and all ground transportation, hotels, most meals, and guides. Not included are the visa and flight to China, personal expenses, international departure tax from Shanghai and the end of the tour, and individual tips. Contact: Photo Explorer Tours, 2506 Country Village, Ann Arbor MI 48103-6500. Phone: 1 800 315-4462. Fax: 1 734 996-1440. E-mail: DECoxPhoto@aol.com . Web: http://www.denniscox.com/tours/china.htm

Watch for developments in the field of stock photography in PhotoResearcher's

PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE NEWS

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You'll be the first to know...

Note: If the URL is long, it may extend to two lines. In that case - clicking on it won't work. Instead, "copy and paste" the URL.

New Study: U.S. GRAPHIC DESIGN Businesses Bill $5.8 Billion in 2004 - "This

type of study is important," said Dr. Joseph Webb, president of SFM,

"because the graphic design industry represents a large portion of the

overall graphic arts marketplace and their skills and experience are the

first step in the demand for print and other media.

http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/21952.html

Acrobat How-to: Traditional Proofreading in PDF - While the so-called

PAPERLESS WORKFLOW has many benefits, some things are just better done on

paper, like proofreading and copy-editing, for instance. Is it possible to

replicate traditional methods in a digital environment? You can with

Acrobat's markup tools. http://www.creativepro.com/story/feature/21942.html

Leading Digital Camera Manufacturers Announce IMAGELINK Print System to

Simplify At-Home Picture Printing; New Specification Enables One-Touch

Printing from Printer Docks

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/altavista/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040927005495&newsLang=en

Photographer gives tips to prepare for picture day - Dianna Anderson of Mesa

has been a Lifetouch school photographer for four years, going to different

schools every week. Her advice for parents: Above all, make picture day FUN

for their children.

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0927edpictures270.html

Compose yourself - Understanding the TRICKS OF THE EYE will make you a

better photographer

http://www.herald.ns.ca/cgi-bin/home/displaystory?2004/09/26+160.raw+AtHome+2004/09/27

Photographer DISAPEARS WITH MONEY , Pictures

http://www.wnbc.com/money/3759039/detail.html

Photography: Portrait of a passionate photographer - The New Zealand she

first encountered - devout, decorous, conformist - dispirited and bored her.

Still, the "adversity," as she puts it, of the experience also offered an

obvious theme for a LIFETIME'S WORK .

http://www.nbr.co.nz/home/column_article.asp?id=10243&cid=6&cname=Arts

Adobe proposes new FILE STANDARDS for digital cameras

http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=771840a8-6b1d-4d27-a5e6-e2369aba9ce9

Olympus Introduces ZOOM : Easy to Use, Intelligent Design

http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/altavista/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20040927005157&newsLang=en

Leading Digital Camera Manufacturers Announce IMAGELINK Print System to

Simplify At-Home Picture Printing

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/040927/275495_1.html

Photography legend has first RETROSPECTIVE... Albert Watson, the acclaimed Scottish photographer,

http://www.sundayherald.com/45012

HP Color-locking Technology "Advances" Paper PRINT QUALITY - HP Advanced

Paper enables customers to generate prints that dry quickly and exhibit

superior water resistance. Colors appear rich and vivid and solid areas

appear smoother and more uniform.

http://www.creativepro.com/story/news/21924.html

Korczynski's marks 35th year - In addition to the usual 8x10s and 11x14s or

multi-opening mats Richard Korczynski is best known for his own creation

called "PHOTO MATS," where photos are mounted, and then cut with a

coordinating mat inside the actual photographic image.

http://www.thevictoriaadvocate.com/lifestyle/special_sections/story/2235904p-2590944c.html

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