To get to the free milk, of course. We wonder why buy milk, when the cow will milk itself, bottle the milk, and just hand it over to you? Sound silly, but that seems to be the photographer & agent/rep relationship when it comes to money owed to you the photographer, when you find your […]
We both urge you all to let your government know how you feel about the proposed copyright registration fee increase and that you vote by writing directly to the Copyright Office at http://www.copyright.gov/docs/newfees/comments/index.html THE DEADLINE FOR COMMENTS IS THIS MONDAY BY 5PM EST! All too often photographers have been silent while their elected representatives have […]
Wow, That’s Fast!
Mar 23
Gee, we posted a short story about Pinterest’s terrible TOS and they CHANGED IT THE SAME DAY! http://tinyurl.com/7kotusw Was it our blog post here on The Copyright Zone?? Maybe yes, maybe no. Like maybe we’ll also have the winning number’s in tonight’s $300 million lottery drawing. Hey, ya never know! Haven’t read the new TOS, […]
This falls under “Things you should know” Here’s a link to a great blog piece on Scientific America’s website regarding the Pinterest TOS (Terms of Service). The writer, Kalliopi Monoyios is a scientific illustrator at the University of Chicago and a book illustrator. She explains word by word what scares her away from Pinterest. http://tinyurl.com/6ndolc7 […]
Here’s an interesting 20-minute-long documentary film titled Chimping by Dan Perez de la Garza about the current state of photojournalism featuring Ed and our good friends Chris Usher and the recently departed (and greatly missed) Paula Lerner. This film is about their work and the state of the profession. We think it’s a thought provoking […]
It is with unspeakable sadness that we inform you of the untimely death of a great lady, Boston based photographer Paula Lerner. Paula possessed the all too rare qualities of both bravery and courage well before the insidious cancer ever invaded her body. While most of us are content with the safety of our daily lives, […]
This is not a Copyright Zone event, but thought I’d post it here anyway. And a Free ticket drawing is being held today. Here’s the scoop, Jack will be teaching a lighting and perception workshop in Princeton NJ on April28th with Steve Dreyer and Alan Kesselhauf. More info at: http://princetonphotoworkshop.wordpress.com/ Ed will not be there, […]
Seems that the AP like virtually all other syndicators, publishers, media conglomerates and corporations of whatever size and nature, get real testy when they perceive that their copyrights are being violated. They sic their minions of lawyers on the alleged infringers with a vengeance. They rarely think twice before asserting what they believe, to be their constitutional rights to […]
President Lincoln is famously quoted as saying “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.“ And we’ll famously caution you, when it comes to the legal system, never try any […]
Famous artist Shepard Fairey may end up serving some jail time over his famous Obama “Hope” poster. When questioned about the infringement of the photo used to create the poster, he lied to investigators and destroyed some evidence. That’s a no-no. Ask ex-con Martha Stewart, who didn’t go to jail for insider trading, but for […]
