Tuesday, November 20, 2018

FROM MARY FRAN  Nov 20, 2018

1)   Photographer Income Survey Results  - full results can be seen at http://www.selling-stock.com/ViewArticle.aspx?id=9db16f94-8c23-4b43-b5f2-7e7057b6fe1a  There were 270 responses which is somewhat disappointing considering the tens of thousands of photographers producing stock images today…Clearly, the business of stock photography has become more of a part-time, supplementary source of income and no longer a viable career.


1-a)  2019 Creative & Marketing Salary Guide  
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2)   Previously only available to Enterprise customers with Shutterstock Premier or Rex Features accounts – the agency’s editorial photo content is now freed up for licensing on their main site.

3)   Alamy.com and 360Cities.net have announced that the 360Cities’ collection of thousands of stunning, immersive 360° spherical images will now be available to Alamy customers through Alamy’s online worldwide marketplace. 

4)   Fotolia the stock photo platform acquired by Adobe in 2015 to kick start the Adobe Stock offering will close at the end of next year  – 2019. The Fotolia content will be merged into Adobe Stock.
• What you need to do as a Fotolia customer with image credits:
If you’re an eligible Fotolia customer, you can transfer your account in three easy steps and use your remaining credits and/or downloads on Adobe Stock.* As a bonus, you’ll get at least 2x the number of HD files that you would on Fotolia.com.. Please note that Adobe Stock Credits and / or Downloads that you receive as part of this Offer are valid for 1 year from the date of the initial Transfer or each Monthly Quota (as applicable) and can only be used on the Adobe Stock website, not on the Fotolia website. Simply log into your Fotolia account and then follow the instructions at the top of the page
• and contributors:
Currently, Fotolia contributors can continue to sell licenses to their content on both Adobe Stock and Fotolia. As of February 5, 2019, the Adobe Stock Contributor portal will be the one place to upload, index, and submit your content.  However, even after February 5, 2019, you can continue to sell licenses to your content on both Adobe Stock and Fotolia and earn royalties for sales of licenses of your content on both websites. You will also be able to view the tax center and delete content via the Fotolia contributor portal.  See the Fotolia Contributor FAQ for more information.

5)  Magnum Photos is looking for the next generation of international photographers to join its global artistic co-operative.
The agency is accepting portfolio submissions from all international professional photographers and entries for June 2019 can be made directly through Magnum Photos’ dedicated website. Applicants are required to submit two to three photographic projects, with up to 80 pictures over all projects. The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2019.

6)  J. David Ake, deputy bureau chief for visual journalism at the AP Washington bureau, has been promoted to director of photography for The Associated Press. He will be based in New York.  https://photoarchivenews.com/news/award-winning-photojournalist-j-david-ake-new-director-photography-ap/

7) Watch: Google helps New York Times digitise photo archive – metadata by AI    The New York Times are digitising 6M prints from their photo archive to use as story content in the newspaper – Google are helping them with the process – ‘making use of numerous tools within Google Cloud Platform that allow them to securely store their images, provide them with a better interface for finding photos, and find new insights even from the data locked on the backs of image’ – so collecting metadata via AI from the detailed scan on the back of each print is how they are doing it. It’s another step forward in the whole AI learning process which Google are really leading currently.

View the first results in this NYT story HERE
…and watch the Google produced film below.  https://photoarchivenews.com/news/watch-google-helps-new-york-times-digitise-photo-archive/
8)  Photographs by Andy Warhol that have never before been displayed publicly are at the heart of the exhibition, Contact Warhol: Photography Without End, which draws on a trove of over 130,000 photographic exposures that the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University acquired from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts in 2014. The collection of 3,600 contact sheets and corresponding negatives represents the complete range of Warhol’s black-and-white photographic practice from 1976 until his unexpected death in1987.
The exhibition runs September 29, 2018–January 6, 2019

9)  The U.S. Senate has passed the FAA Reauthorization Act that will give authorities permission to shoot down private drones that are determined to be “threats.” The proposed law has sparked an outcry from civil liberties organizations.

9-a)    I’ve Never Flown a Drone. Here’s My Review of the DJI Mavic 2 Pro

10)  RAISE - Join a New Community for Photographers + Get a Chance To Win A Canon EOS R camera!   https://raise.usa.canon.com/

11) Social Media is Ruining Photography  Is it really, though? A simple yes or no just won’t do. There’s plenty to unpack on both sides of the debate.

12)  The Image of Famine That Facebook Tried to Censor  - https://pdnpulse.pdnonline.com/2018/10/the-image-of-famine-that-facebook-tried-to-censor.html  Facebook deemed Tyler Hicks' image of a malnourished, critically ill child "sexual content."


See all your photos neatly organized on the iPhone/iPad
The visual computing team of HTW Berlin (University of Applied Sciences) has released a new app called “Kiano” (Keep Images Arranged & Neatly Organized). Kiano is available for the iPhone or iPad. The app requires 19 MB of free memory and iOS 11.0 or higher.
“Kiano helps to look at your photos in a completely new way,” reports Prof. Kai Uwe Barthel the developer of the app. ” With simple gestures it is possible to navigate visually through all your photos. Kiano is the only app you need to view and find your local photos. Besides a flat or perspective map view showing all images visually arranged, Kiano also offers traditional list views, a professional image viewer and the possibility to search for similar photos”. 
Before you start Kiano the first time, the app analyzes all images once. This is done locally without any data transfer to any server. When you start the app next time, only new and modified images will be analyzed.
After the initial analysis the app can quickly generate visually sorted maps of thousands of images. In this map you can use familiar gestures to zoom in and out, adjust the perspective or select individual photos to view them or to start a similarity search. In the list view, photos are conveniently sorted by year of creation, and the album view allows to view all created photo albums. There is also a slide show, which can be further configured in the settings of the app, a video player, and other options for customizing the map view.
As Kiano is available for free, it is definitely an interesting option for all photo enthusiasts.

14)  COPYRIGHT/LEGAL ARTICLES
Walt Whitman Championed Democracy and Fought for Copyright – Part I by David Newhoff

Twenty Years of the DMCA: Notice and Takedown in Hindsight (Part I) by Terrica Carrington


Kendrick Lamar Could Be Forced to Share Profits From His ‘Black Panther’ Hit Because of an Artist’s Copyright Lawsuit

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/kendrick-lamar-black-panther-lawsuit-1380226


Twenty Years of the DMCA: Notice and Takedown in Hindsight (Part II) by Terrica Carrington

In a big win for NPPA (National Press Photographer’s Association), after years of litigation, a federal judge struck down a Wyoming law that unconstitutionally banned photography in certain circumstances in Wyoming. They were represented by Public Justice in this case, but Mickey H. Osterreicher, Esq. and Alicia Wagner Calzada, PLLC dedicated many hours to this effort.



GETTY IMAGES FENDS OFF CMI CLAIM IN SOURCE CREDIT RELYING ON EQUITABLE ESTOPPEL
Getty Images successfully had a case against it dismissed by a federal judge in the Southern District of New York in which another image distributor, Zuma Press accused it of copyright infringement and of altering copyright management information by not including its information in the source credit of the digital content and sought substantial statutory damages. Getty Images prevailed on both claims by using a defense called “equitable estoppel”. This defense has to do with fairness, and prevents a party from claiming they suffered an injury at the hands of another when the first party’s own activity mislead the second party into causing the injury. The court further noted that Getty Images lacked the necessary statutory intent for a violation of integrity of copyright management information.
Read the entire article here

Celebrating the Life and Legacy of Photography Pioneer Anna Atkins

The New York Public Library is drawing from its collections—and ideas that continue to inspire artists today—to present two companion exhibitions celebrating the life and legacy of one of photography's earliest pioneers. Often considered the first female photographer, artist and botanist Anna Atkins published the first ever book using the newly discovered cyanotype process. Today, her bright blue images continue to resonate in the art world. Discover her work and the work she has influenced in these exhibitions on display at the Library's 42nd Street building. Plus, check out an array of programs and other Library resources to learn more about Atkins and photography today.

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