May 6, 2012 Eisie and Papa Ben Cosgrove has a story up on Alfred Eisenstaedt’s trip to Cuba in 1952 to photograph Ernest Hemingway … and how miserable of a subject he was. Categories Craft/Photojournalism
May 4, 2012 Copyright Office Planning to Raise Registration Fees FYI The NPPA is disappointed to report that the U.S. Copyright Office is planning to nearly double the cost of registering your images. They have provided the opportunity for public comment prior to the change and NPPA will be submitting comments regarding the change. The changes include increases in the cost of group registration of images from $35 to $65.... Categories Advice & Learning/At Work/Business & Industry/Photojournalism
May 4, 2012 Evernote for Next Semester So, a good chunk of My Kids are heading out the door next week, off to brave new adventures in far away lands. (Also – if you need interns or staffers, have I got some great ones for you.) But for those who will be coming back, Megan Cotter has a blog post with 10 Tips for Using Evernote to... Categories Advice & Learning/Tech Talk
May 3, 2012 Twitter, Twitpic, Copyright and $120,300,000 Yep, you read that right – one hundred twenty million, three hundred thousand dollars. That’s what photojournalist Daniel Morel is seeking in damages from AFP, Getty Images and The Washington Post. Ahem. Better make sure you know who owns what before you publish anything … Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal
May 3, 2012 OOOOOhhhhhh – Graphics Geeks Can Celebrate! The New York Times has a new blog over on Tumblr – and it looks at the “chartsnthings” they create for different data driven stories. How did I not know this existed? Categories Graphic Design/Journalism
May 3, 2012 Lists Are Not Transformative The depths that some will dive to in an effort to defend the indefensible … BuzzFeed co-founder Jonah Peretti thinks that grabbing images off the web and reposting them as part of a list is a transformative work and therefore not a copyright violation. Categories Ethics & Legal
May 2, 2012 Finally: Metadata to Replace Reporters Publishers have been scaling back photo staffs for decades, handing ever-improving point and shoot cameras to reporters. Now, Matt Richardson has reversed this and built a “camera” that will write about what it has photographed. (News coverage available from Cnet.) So, publishers? Time to start laying off the reporting staff and expanding the photo department again! Categories Journalism/Tech Talk
May 2, 2012 Pursuing Pulitzers Wired.com’s Jakob Schiller has a piece up about Tim Rasmussen, the Denver Post’s assistant managing editor for Photography and multimedia. Should you care? I don’t know … since getting to Denver six years ago, his staff has won two Pulitzer Prizes … he’s kind of a smart guy. Categories Business & Industry/Photojournalism/Thoughts & Theory
May 1, 2012 Colorado Copyright Question Cleared Up Colorado University has come clean and said it does not hold the copyright to the now-famous image of a bear falling from a tree shot by student Andy Duann. Good, though I’m saddened to see Duann isn’t going to pursue payment for use of the image by other media outlets. Categories Business & Industry/Ethics & Legal
May 1, 2012 Who Dropped the $300,000 Statue? Over at Photo District News, David Walker has the story of a 2,600 year old statue that was destroyed during a photo shoot last year … and the law suit over who has to pay how much. It’s a long read, but the important part is at the end – most professionals carry liability insurance that would cover such a... Categories Advice & Learning/Business & Industry