The Copyright Office has announced new fee structures, effective May 1st. You can read the entire PDF list here. Basically, registration of collections is rising from $35 to $55 on May 1st. That’s quite a jump, so we highly recommend to register all those images you were putting off registering, during the month of April. […]
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There is a vast, underground market, which resides on the web and is based on infringing copyrights and selling counterfeit goods. Protecting your work against such thieves who have no brick and mortar address to call home nor even a “true” identity, is a difficult but hardly impossible task. Creators – and even some lawyers […]
We ran across this great letter to a producer from a songwriter, NJ White in the UK, as to why he is not willing to give away his work to the producer for free. The link is on Paul Resnikoff’s Digital Music News website. It’s a great read. Read it at this link or the […]
Again, we find answering a question in comments is worthy of a blog post. We get asked the question many time, why register before an infringement, when one can still register after an infringement? If you register upon shooting/creation as unpublished or within the 3 month grace period for published work, and you work is […]
Andrew Paul Leonard is a photographer and one of Ed’s clients. Mr. Leonard is also an electron micrographer. Shooting through an electron microscope he is one of the precious few professional photographers in the world who can both use scanning electron microscope and then create color images of stem cells. The black and white image […]
It Still Ain’t Over
Sep 20
Stay with us here because in the end it’s eventually real important to your wallet. Recall our prior articles on the Cariou v. Prince legal battle, which centered on the issue of “fair use”. You can read our previous article titled “It Ain’t Over Till Its Over and This One Ain’t Over”, here. Recently the […]
Charity Should Start at Home
Sep 17
Yet again, we wouldn’t believe it, other than the fact we do believe it because it has happened before. Once more a photographer who apparently had his work infringed and thinks that having the infringer make a small charitable donation rather than pursue his rights in court is a good idea. Yeah, good (actually great) […]
Stock Statements
Sep 15
An interesting article in the British Journal of Photography recently came across our path. Seems that Getty’s CEO Jonathan Klein is out doing some PR including addressing the ever plunging prices by charged by stock agencies including his own. The current state of affairs in the stock photography industry comes as no surprise to us […]
Droning On DronePix
Aug 27
A “drone” by dictionary definition is a stingless male, honeybee that produces no honey and lives just to mate with the queen bee. Those are not the drones we’re talking about here. The drones in this piece can produce honey, for photographers, in the way of hard cash. The FAA has restrictions on the altitude […]
