A Federal Court has just upheld warrantless border searches conducted at or near our nation’s borders. These searches may include an examination of the contents including photographs contained in your camera, smart phone or digital device. If you are a photojournalist returning from a stint in say the Middle East, be prepared to be detained […]
Archive for category Legal Things
The act of taking funds out of the cash register and diverting them for some illegal, unintended or illegitimate purpose is commonly called “skimming”. One who is caught engaging in such activity at say a casino, often disappears for eternity. A “defalcation” is an amount of funds misappropriated (a/k/a “stolen”) by a person trusted with receiving […]
We’ve heard and written about numerous and never ending excuses from infringers. One of the most common responses we heard goes like this: “We made no money” or “We didn’t charge any money”. The following is a current, real life court case that shows that it doesn’t matter that money didn’t change hands. New York […]
You Can Make It Up
Dec 31
Left Coast photographer Howard Rosenberg gets the credit for finding this beauty. Our readers know that we are quite fond of the phrase, “You can’t make this stuff up” and we use it frequently in our workshops. Here is proof that you can, in fact, make it up. Howard noted some discussions in a photo […]
Back To The Future
Dec 24
Clichés like, “Dance with the person who brung ya’” or “If it ain’t broke don’t fix it” speak to the wisdom of doing that which has worked well in years passed. We have all become eager participants in the digital age and the instant communications it affords us. We are now all tied 24/7 to […]
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 If you register upon shooting/creation as unpublished or within the 3 month grace period for published work, and you work is […]
We recently had a question in comments as to why models haven’t unionized. Ed response was such that we thought it best to post it here rather than in comments. So here is Ed’s response regarding the issues of models unionizing. These are a just few reasons why it has never really happened is not […]
We have often written on and Ed has litigated the sensitive topic of using child models. NY State has just passed a new law with respect to the use of child models. See this article in Crain’s. This new law imposes burdens on models, model agencies, clients, ad agencies and of course, photographers. The NY […]
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 […]
