The War on Photographers Continues. This is an article we ran on another blog, but it’s such a great lead-in to the blog article that we’re posting tomorrow, we thought we’d run it here again. There is a famous story of Picasso, who was sitting in a Paris café, when a fan came up to […]
Free Photos!…Not Really
Sep 27
Good News / Bad News
Sep 26
Just so y’all know, we sold out all of our supply of books at Photoshop World in Las Vegas. It was like watching locust devour a corn field. Fantastic. So thanks to all you guys and gals out there as it looks like our first print run of the Photographer’s Survival Manual has sold out. […]
Ad Agency Follies, Part 2
Sep 15
The Follies continue from yesterday: 4. The ad industry has been particularly hard hit by the economy. Picking off clients of other agencies while hardly a new sport, has become “more of a blood sport these days” as the “stakes have never been higher”. Many former execs have opened up their own small/smaller shops and […]
Ad Agency Follies, Part 1
Sep 14
We recently talked (a lot) at Photohop World in Las Vegas, where we gave three seminars. We covered model release issues, copyright matters and a Vegas style buffet of other photo/legal issues. PSW was a very well attended blast thanks to in no small measure Scott Kelby and his staff from NAPP. A significant number […]
Thanks to Attendees in Vegas
Sep 10
Thanks to all that came to our 3 seminars at Photoshop World in Vegas this past week. It was a lot of fun, as usual and the feedback from attendees was fantastic. Jack is off to Italy for two weeks and Ed has some high profile cases in the works, so please be patient for […]
Lawyers Need Money Too!
Sep 4
Its no secret that this economy has hit photographers, models, illustrators, graphic designers, ad agencies and real estate brokers really hard. Rarely mentioned is that lawyers have similarly suffered in an economy where there are fewer home sales and business transactions, consumer/business credit is tight, many people can’t afford to get divorced and if you […]
Sexualizing Tweens
Aug 24
Recently a barrage of media attention has been paid to the issue of using children, teenagers and especially “tweens”, in sexually provocative poses. Some of this attention arises out of a new case which Ed has brought in Federal Court in New York on behalf of a teenager. Her image was used for various commercial purposes […]
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 […]
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 […]
