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Certainly interesting.
These copyright issues more and more start to feel like a whole herd of pink elephants in the room.
I don't have any magic solution, but put on your thinking cap and crank up the little grey cells, I know it hurts, and try to find ways to use the systems to your advantage before we made all lawyers billionaires. You don't have to win every battle to win the war.
The copyright laws were written for the old ways and days, pieces of film, books, paper, paintings, etc. and technology has run it over and massacred it many times over, it just won't lay down.
Thinking of the Megaupload issues and the guys arrested in New Zealand. I use places as Megauppload to transfer my big files to clients, so is it now that Big Business and Big Brother are going to sue ISP's, shipping container manufacturers, pilots and ship captains, warehouse owners, truck drivers, computer makers, memory makers, for aiding piracy. Looks like we are getting to that point. Countries as Sweden already has a "piracy tax" on all portable memory devices, as CD's, memory sticks, and portable HDD. They "could" be used for piracy activities. Everyone has to pay the tax though and it goes to the Big Business. To me it is modern dictatorship, and we as the small guy has no say.
Remember, we are the small guys, and the more complex and draconian system the more the Big Business wins on our expense, it is us that get trampled in the end, by the big guys, what I call the copyright Mafia. We earlier talked about how the middle man, many stock photo sites, start to control our sales and the prices we get for our work.
On 28-Jan-2012 5:16 AM, sjlocke wrote:
Hey,
I thought some of you might find my blog posting yesterday of interest, as I know how we all love people who use our work without permission:
http://bit.ly/yjHWQx
Sean L.
--- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, "Skip" <skipc43@...> wrote:
>
> The only drawback to watermarking your work is that MOST stock photo agencies wont accept copyrighted submissions.
>
I'm sure you mean "watermarked" submissions, which makes sense, as who would want to license an image with a big watermark on it?
Sean L.
Hey,
I thought some of you might find my blog posting yesterday of interest, as I know how we all love people who use our work without permission:
http://bit.ly/yjHWQx
Sean L.
Another good reason to give them the "finger", just my humble view. You need to be in control, not the middle man.
Always put your logo and better email in one bottom corner of every picture you put on the web.
On 26-Jan-2012 7:42 AM, Skip wrote:
The only drawback to watermarking your work is that MOST stock photo agencies wont accept copyrighted submissions.
The only drawback to watermarking your work is that MOST stock photo agencies wont accept copyrighted submissions.
> However, I did say that digital was a double edged sword. Please let me expand
> on that. In days of yore it was very difficult to "break into" markets which
> demanded a minimum of medium format transparencies, if not large format; picture
> editors would mainly deal with the photographers they knew and trusted, and if
> you did not live near major towns it was expensive and time consuming to post
> sheets of transparencies. With the advent of the internet and digital imaging the
> market has opened up, which I believe is a good thing, and everyone competes on a
> level playing field; if your images are good enough they are accepted. However,
> this has also led to more and more competition, and I am not saying that this is
> a bad thing, with a glut of images and especially similar images being available
> for sale. This has driven down the price of images, especially generics, and I
> doubt that anyone can argue that repro rates in magazines and books have not
> fallen in recent years.
Joe:
While I agree in principal, my recollection of the past is very different. However,
before I get into my comments about editors and agencies, I really want to stress
how much I agree with your points about how much more fair stock photo agencies are
to photographers than they were just a few decades ago.
The present system makes it so impossible for one photographer to dominate an agency
that newcomers to the industry can't even imagine what we're talking about. The very
nature of how our business is conducted today makes it impossible for one person to -
say - make half the sales of an entire large agency. (as was common 25 years ago).
It's much easier to get a foot in the door today than ever before.
Markets and agencies are two different things though and you confuse the two at your
own risk. If you think that being in stock photo agencies can help you break into
any market - you'd be sadly mistaken. Those editors who were hard to reach years ago
are still hard to reach - and you still have to reach them to break into the real
markets.
Worst and most facinating though is the way the internet brings hundreds or
thousands of people together in these discussions. This creates a whole mythology
intended to explain the present situation. Take it from somebody who was there;
there was no golden age of stock photography for most people. Tales of a glorious
past should be viewed with extreme caution.
Brian Yarvin
Author, Educator, Photographer
http://www.brianyarvin.com
michael,
I just convert my copyright into a brush then I can size it to fit any image and I can select a color from the image to use for the copyright so that compliments rather than detracts from the image.
Lyell
--- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, "michael jm" <mgtymike1@...> wrote:
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> Greetings fellow photogs, I was just wondering what program (if any) or process does one use with ease to attach your copyright and or logo to your images.....
>
Hi friends,
For all photography members, this is a little blog about learn and share photography, hope give a little knowledge and info,
agusdlaksono.blogspot.com
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Agus dL
We are shopping around for new liability and property coverage and I have looked at ACT Insurance, Brower and RLI. I am finding that RLI's premium is rather high for what the coverage provides and I am leaning towards ACT or Brower but I wanted other artists opinions or experience working with these companies. Anything you can share is appreciated.
Lightroom. You can use an image or create text.
--- In selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com, "michael jm" <mgtymike1@...> wrote:
>
> Greetings fellow photogs, I was just wondering what program (if any) or process does one use with ease to attach your copyright and or logo to your images.....
>
> So far Brian seems to be offering the most help on that topic.
Don:
Thank you very much. I appreciate you saying this.
Sadly, it's my suspicion that you'll never get the answers you're looking for from an internet
discussion group. You really need to get out and talk to people who are at the top of their
game and they're not here.
Brian Yarvin
Author, Educator, Photographer
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I remember the old saying that photography is not art, but art is not photography. So it is maybe more true than you thought of when you wrote it that your work is art, photography is your tool to create art. With photography we can also create many other things, as news, stories, information, records, etc.
A paint brush can be used to paint the lines on a road, not exactly art, but also a Rembrandt. A pen can be used to write an address, not exactly poetry, and think on.
The secondary question then become, what is art. For me it is what I enjoy, then I don't give a toss about the efforts it took to create it or what anyone else thinks.
An analogy about those sharp photos. If people tell you what a brilliant website you have, get rid of it instantly. Usually it is in Flash. You want them to notice your photos, not the website, sorry, your art I mean. :-)
On 21-Jan-2012 8:54 PM, Daniel Walsh wrote:
From: angiephotographer <angieknostphoto@hotmail.com>
Subject: Selling Stock Photography What is art?
To: selling_stock_photography@yahoogroups.com
Date: Friday, January 20, 2012, 7:14 PM
This talk about what is art and what isn't reminds me of a kind of off topic story I will share...
I did one art show in my life. Didn't sell anything. The photos I presented were mainly of rock musicians performing or 'rocker lifestyle' type of subjects.
The exhibitor next to me was presenting his black and white, out of focus pictures of women bound, gagged and tied up. He looked over and sneered at me, and I heard him comment out loud to someone, while clearly looking my way, that "Some of this crap here isn't even art"....
Make what you will of that story. Carry on....
As a photographer I feel my work is pure art....I don't point and shot people at parties.....all the effort in pre-shoot composition and post editing takes time tallent, which i consider a true art form. I just find it frustrating when the 'avereage Joe' skims through my work with no apperrant appriciation of the time and effort that goes into the final product. Every time someone tells me how sharp my photos are, I assume that it isn't a very interesting photograph. If it were, they would have more to say. ~Author Unknown --- On Fri, 1/20/12, angiephotographer <angieknostphoto@hotmail.com> wrote:
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