This startling and outrageous proposal will become UK law if The Digital Economy Bill currently being pushed through Parliament is passed. This Bill is sponsored by the unelected Government Minister, Lord Mandelson.
Let’s look at the way this law will affect your copyright:
The idea that the author of a photograph has total rights over his or her own work – as laid out in International Law and The Copyright Act of 1988 – will be utterly ignored. If future, if you wish to retain any control over your work, you will have to register that work (and each version of it) with a new agency yet to be set up.
via Photographers to lose copyright and right to photograph in public (cached) | Online Journalism Blog.
Just a couple of months ago, I wrote about something that I thought was really impressive by Thomson Reuters. A Reuters blogger wrote a blog post on his official Reuters blog questioning Reuters itself after rumors started spreading that the company had spiked an article after pressure from the article’s subject. Now, the two stories might cancel each other out in some way. Spiking a story based on pressure from the subject is bad, but allowing an employee to publicly question the action on a company blog shows an openness that I thought was impressive.
via Reuters Social Media Policy Gets It Half Right, Half Wrong | Techdirt.
Recently, I’ve been thinking about war photography, and the moral arguments that commonly support it. I’ve been seeing people use those arguments to advocate for certain practices in photography in general, and I think there are problems with that.
To me, war-phototography is not the same as non-violent-photography.
via A Developing Story | War photographer: a dangerous idolatry.
The Public Interest Registry will add an extra layer of security known as DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) to the .org domain in June — a move that will protect millions of non-profit organizations and their donors from hacking attacks known as cache poisoning.
Comcast launches first public U.S. trial of advanced DNS security
In a cache poisoning attack, traffic is redirected from a legitimate Web site to a fake one without the Web site operator or end user knowing. Cache poisoning attacks are the result of a serious flaw in the DNS that was disclosed by security researcher Dan Kaminsky in 2008.
DNSSEC is an emerging Internet standard that prevents cache poisoning attacks by allowing Web sites to verify their domain names and corresponding IP addresses using digital signatures and public-key encryption
In Japan the “kicking-boy” is always North Korea and one reason for this is the abduction issue which is raised all the time. Yet, in Japan, you have a much bigger abduction issue but this gets little media coverage and of course the nationalist tainted government does not want to dwell on this problem. Therefore, is the “wall of silence” based on racism, double-standards, or is it about Japanization and superiority?
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Humanitarian Photographers: What’s our Job?
[March 9, 2010] Do we know the answer to that question? Have we asked ourselves, what IS our job? Do we know how far to go in our services? What kinds of things are included in them and what are not?
Those are just some of the questions that I have in my mind after reading Jeremy Courtney’s comment on our last post of 10.Q.
He commented on Matt Brandon’s quote, “NGOs don’t understand the true value of an image”.
My intention here is not to discuss that quote (for that, you can follow the thread on the post.) What I want to discuss, or let’s say, hear from you about, is what struck me the most out of Jeremy’s comments. It’s one question that I’m still thinking about… What’s our Job?
Please read the extract of his comment before we continue….
via What’s our Job? – heber vega | humanitarian & cultural photographer.
via What’s our Job? – heber vega | humanitarian & cultural photographer.
I have to say I really enjoyed this post as it reminded me of when I was working as a sports photographer for a national press agency.
It is also strange to think that photographers use common soloutions to their problems, as I have been using the Pocket Phojo and a PDA for the last year to do remote transmitions, with the Nikon D2x or the Canon G9
(using the G9 by swapping the memory card or just using the USB cable to view the memory card while plugged into the camera; It does not automaticaly send from the G9, like it does from the D2x)
With the Pocket Phojo software on a PDA and Canon G9 it makes for a very compact reporting kit as the G9 can record audio and video good enough for the web as well 🙂
Read the full article bellow to see how things have changed
Radical Images
The Sydney Morning Herald Blogs: Photographers
For newspaper photographers, the single greatest advantage of dumping film has been faster and easier delivery of pictures.
Before that, a photographer on an away-job might turn his hotel en-suite into a makeshift darkroom, or pay a local mini-lab to stay open after-hours, then transmit one or two prints back to Sydney in a tedious over-the-phone process making you very late for dinner.
Sports photographers needed to work for several hours after full-time to get their pictures back to the paper, while now they can generally get away with the last of the fans.
A decade on, things have progressed to the point where you can transmit your photographs (live) from a smart-phone in your pocket, all the while continuing to shoot the action you were sent there to cover. Read More >>
An amateur photographer is chased by the police after taking pictures on the seafront; another man is frogmarched away when using his camera in a town centre. Since when did carrying a camera in public provoke so much suspicion and hostility? Sam Delaney reports. Illustration by Ulla Puggaar.
An interseting summary in ‘The Telegraph’ regarding the state of our photography Read more>>>
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