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No Sympathy for the Devil

Bye, Bye, OnRequest Custom Stock? Professional photographer, John Harrington, who runs the PhotoBusinessForum weblog, made a very interesting post a few days back, regarding a comment made by the head of OnRequest images. If you've been a pro stock photographer over the last few years, you likely heard about OnRequest,…
Gary Crabbe
July 16, 2007
Newsworthy

Can you get rid of that thing, please?

"Would you mind taking that off? Just set it over there..." So the big question is; would you ask Queen Elizabeth 2 to remove her crown for a portrait photo? I can imagine that words to that effect were asked by famed photographer Annie Leibovitz while she was shooting a…
Gary Crabbe
July 12, 2007
NewsworthyPhoto BusinessStock Photography

Bad Getty

A couple Board Members over at stock-photo powerhouse, Getty Images, are in hot water according to a report over at The Stock Asylum. In the story, they write: (Two lawsuits) contend that the defendants, including Getty Images' Chief Executive Officer Jonathan Klein and Chairman Mark Getty, breached their duties to…
Gary Crabbe
May 24, 2007
NewsworthySpace and Science

Boom. Big Badda Boom.

The brightest supernova seen to date is being touted in the media. The Media is here on our little rocky outpost. Fortunately, the supernova is in a galaxy far far away. What I would love to see (at least I think so) is if a star in our own galaxy…
Gary Crabbe
May 9, 2007
CopyrightNewsworthy

Upload this…

Coming soon to a Library of Congress near you: Good news for creatives here in the United States; our friendly neighborhood Library of Congress has posted an announcement about the coming availability of electronic registration of your copyright materials. Not only that, but the cost will be lower than traditional…
Gary Crabbe
May 7, 2007
AnimalsNewsworthyPhotos

No fear of fast food

How hot was it today in Chicago?Apparently it was hot enough for a Coyote to walk into a Quiznos Sandwich shop, and climb up into the refridgerator to get a wee bit cooler. So, you think this animal would have liked to chew a nice salami sub while he was…
Gary Crabbe
April 4, 2007
CopyrightNewsworthy

Now presenting ViaTube Squarepants

Busy week on the Copyright Infringement Lawsuit Filing front. Viacom, the media mega-giant that owns MTV & VH1 is suing YouTube for unlawful distribution of their copyrighted material. A year ago, this would probably not have happened as YouTube was just another Internet site on the rise. But now, the supreme…
Gary Crabbe
March 14, 2007
DigitalNewsworthyPhoto Business

Lightroom 1 arrives

During the NANPA convention last month, I attended a digital workflow seminar with noted photographer George Lepp. During his presentation, he showed off features of a beta program called Adobe Lightroom. The beta was quick and packed with stuff. Now, George admitted he was using Jpegs for the presentation to…
Gary Crabbe
February 21, 2007
NewsworthyPhotos

And the winners for this year are:

Several image galleries worth taking a look at represent the winners of two notable "Of The Year" contests. First up are the ten winning images of the 2006 World in Focus Photo Contest put on by National Geographic Traveler Magazine. These are usually pretty images of places and cultures. FWIW, I…
Gary Crabbe
February 11, 2007
CopyrightNewsworthy

Ma Bell vs Pa Gates

Batton down those proverbial IP hatches, as AT&T is about to have a Supreme Court face-off with Microsoft over some intellectual property involving every PC sold running Windows software. Microsoft admits infringing on AT&T's patent of a Digital Speech Coder when it developed it's Windows OS, but new issues involve…
Gary Crabbe
February 7, 2007
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