5 reasons to always use Photo Meta Data

photo credit: Pink Sherbet Photography
Back in the days of film photographers would use sticky labels to show a transparency or print belonged to them and copyright and contact info. Literally stuck on the slide mount or the reverse of the print. With the advent of digital there was no longer a physical object [...]

Alamy announce a ‘Find a Photographer’ service

photo credit: Caveman 92223
Alamy have announced today that they’re going to set up a section of the website where buyers of photography can “Find a Photographer”. Hats off to Alamy for a great photographer friendly initiative.

Tags: Alamy, Assignment Photography, Comment, copyright, find a photographer, Getting paid, licences, licenses, Photography Business, pricing [...]

When does fair use of a photo become copyright infringement?

photo credit: bloomsberries
Good question.
I saw a statistic somewhere on the number of blogs that are created each week and it’s mind boggling. The number that make it to any sort of maturity is only a small proportion but its still, on a global scale, quite a few! Now imagine those [...]

Orphan Works Legislation explained….

Just what is this “Orphan Works” thing I keep hearing about. It’s all over the web now. It sounds pretty serious. Trouble is, there’s just so much out there to read (just Google ‘Orphan Works’ if you don’t believe me) and this is legislation, so its not exactly written in plain English.
But wait [...]

Creative Commons Wordpress plugin could spell big trouble for unwary blog publishers

photo credit: cell105
Uh oh,
A very large lid has just been taken off a huge can-o-worms that could have far reaching repercussions for both photographers and blog publishers who don’t realise what they may be letting themselves in for.

Tags: Comment, copyright, credit lines, flickr, Photography Business, releases, usage, wordpress plugin