To follow up on our Flickr piece, there is a lot of buzz today on protecting yourself on Facebook by placing a “Facebook Privacy Notice” on your Facebook Timeline. So tons of people are doing that. After all, they read it on the Internet, so it must be true. It’s a complete hoax. Here is […]
Archive for category Legal Things
Toiling in Anonymity
Nov 21
We are fond of saying that “Mr. Getty” and “Ms. Corbis” are the world’s most prolific photographers. After all they seem to be in hundreds of places at the same time taking newsworthy pictures and taking credit for them. Agencies are loath to post the names of actual photographers and give them credit for various […]
Another One Bites the Dust
Nov 20
As reported in Mashable.com, like Flickr yesterday, the photo site 500px is adding an option to tag your images with a Creative Commons (or as we like to call it, Creative Confusion) license. We again will say we find this a terrible option for photographers. That is unless you have a large trust fund or […]
Effective November 7th, 2012, Canada made sweeping changes via their Copyright Modernization Act. There are many changes, but the major one for photographers is that now photographers own their own copyright rather than the commissioning party. Previously, if you hired a photographer, you owned the copyright and photographers had to transfer the copyright to themselves […]
Catch Us on TWiP This Week
Oct 27
We both had a great time talking with Frederic Van Johnson on the This Week in Photography (TWiP) podcast, #278. Some of the topics we covered: “Why should I sign before I shoot?” “What about those model release apps for my Android, iPhone or iPad?” “Is a model release a contract?” “What are 3 steps […]
Here’s a topic that invariably comes up at our lectures, usually because a photographer had done a “good deed” for a charity and got “punished. Basically it’s understanding that “not for profit” (NFP) is a tax designation, not necessarily a business philosophy. Many “not for profits” and charities actually make a lot of money for […]
Our favorite quote arising from the Shepard Fairey sentencing, was from the CEO of the Associated Press (AP), Gary Pruitt. Mr. Pruitt reportedly stated: “We hope this case will serve as a clear reminder to all of the importance of fair compensation for those who gather and produce original news content.” We love this quote […]
For those that missed our terrific (if we say so ourselves) live NIK webinar a few weeks ago, the recorded version is now up on the NIK website here. We’ll be doing more of these with different photography website and will post any additional ones here. So stay tuned.
Great News! $27,000 Payday
Aug 27
We seem to be posting a lot of hard stories and it’s great to post an uplifting story today. It’s about a photographer who negotiated and got a $27,000 payday for one of his wedding photos. It was first reported to be $18,000, but photographer/blogger John Mireles who first broke this story (read here) later […]
