Big copyright fight coming up for Bruce Springsteen, Billy Joel, Kenny Rogers, members of the Village People, and a ton of other famous musicians. It seems that the copyright to songs written after January 1, 1978, even though turned over to publishers, can revert back to the artists after 35 years. And the artists are […]
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One of our favorite speeches is by the late, great Winston Churchill, who said to a nation in its darkest days: “We shall not flag or fail. We shall go on to the end. We shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and the oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and […]
Doctors are amazed with patients who self medicate, self diagnose, or worse, photographers who wake up with a green oozing sore on their body and then call other photographers asking “What should I do?” Easy. CALL A DOCTOR. In the same vein, Big Name Airlines doesn’t call Midas Muffler or Bernie’s Discount House of Oil […]
BEER HERE!
Aug 4
We’ve always stressed in our talks that as creative people it’s important to know the customs, culture, specific language, and the “rules” of the industry and the people who you work with and that of those who hire you. Wedding photographers have their own vocabulary and culture as does advertising photographers and as does photojournalists. […]
Image Lie Detectors
Jul 29
Heard of CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) on TV? How could you not, it’s on like 24/7 in various forms? Well, now we have ISI (Image Scene Investigation), or at least that’s our name for a new company that is in the forefront in the new of image forensics. Image forensics is the “analysis of digital […]
This is from a New York Daily News Gossip section, but funny how these things turn out to be more than just gossip. The Daily News is reporting that Getty’s celebrity photo division, WireImages, might be in play to be bought by the Reuters Group, who has no such celeb photo division. You can read […]
Free Stuff!! Really?
Jul 25
We have always tried to remind our readers that copyright infringement is not without its flesh and blood victims. Every time a photo, movie, illustration or artwork is stolen via copyright infringement someone is seriously harmed. The livelihoods and very financial existence of creators, is dependent upon the prevention of theft via downloading, scanning, copying […]
Proof of Life After Death
Jul 23
Many photographers have been contacted by the estates of celebrities who have passed on to the silver screen in the sky, for portraying said celeb in a photo recreation, such as Marilyn Monroe look-a-likes. Such contacts have usually resulted in transfer of money from photographer to estate. One friend of ours was contacted because without […]
We ran across a great article by David Saxe at Black Star Rising, headlined Professionalism Trumps Talent Every Time http://tinyurl.com/64whg9l Even though the story is about hiring a copywriter and such, it really hits home. We always stress issues like having your paperwork in order, acting in a professional manner in sticky situations, and so […]
The Hidden Cost of Stealing
Jul 19
A rose by any other name still smells the same. We been talking recently and reading about many cases involving appropriation, adaptation, influence, sampling, remixing, reiterations, sequels, ganking, detournment , and reconfiguring. We simply call it as we see it- stealing. But at what cost these days? There is a cost to those who are […]
