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 blogs had no [...]

10 top tips to improve your Stock Photography

photo credit: Suzie T Shoot! The Blog over at the Photoshelter Stock Library has posted a great countdown of 10 top tips to help you improve your success with Stock Photography. I have to say that I agree with all of them, and especially Tip 1! Get on over there and inwardly digest this great [...]

Soft and lacking definition… just what do Alamy QC mean?

photo credit: DerrickT Quick heads up for Alamy contributors having Alamy QC failure paranoia. I’ve been alerted to some great examples of Soft & Lacking Definition failures from Alamy QC over at andysmee’s blog here where he explains each type of failure with good 100% crops so you can see exactly what is being failed. [...]

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 help [...]

Assignment Photography: How to charge and price up assignments – part five

photo credit: Lili Vieira de Carvalho Welcome to the final part of the tutorial on pricing up assignment photography. This part is going to show you how to apply your base usage rate (BUR) to assign license extensions for re-use of your images in a real world example.