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Tweet Tweet said the over-anxious bird

Another one of those annoying little birds has been seen tweeting it's way around the Internet. In this case, it's in the form of a very small little blurb on the Nikonians site, pre-announcing a June 2nd announcement from Nikon, announcing an upgrade to their D2x camera body. Of course,…
Gary Crabbe
May 30, 2006
Newsworthy

WIMPY WIMPS WIMP OUT

Cnet News has a report out today that Microsoft is set to launch a new image file format to rival and replace the web and email standard, JPEG. The format, if I have this correct, is going to be called, Windows Media Photo. Umm, is it April 1st? WiMP? Oh…
Gary Crabbe
May 25, 2006
NewsworthyPhoto Business

Mad Max Model Release

Photo District News reporter Daryl Lang reports in todays PDN Newswire about how a model is mad at Maxim Magazine for using a photo of her on the cover of it's upcoming June 2006 issue. The photo was licensed to Maxim through Corbis Outline, an editorial division of the giant…
Gary Crabbe
May 18, 2006
NewsworthyPhotos

Judge this shoot

Photographers are best at showing only their best photos. It's rare that a member of the outside community gets to see an entire take of a given photo shoot. If anyone bothered to calculate the number frames that never see the light of day in any given year, I'm sure…
Gary Crabbe
May 10, 2006
Newsworthy

Score One for the Writers

Making headlines in national media today are reports that The DaVinci Code author, Dan Brown has won a copyright infringement lawsuit that had been filed by the two authors of Holy Blood, Holy Grail. You can read the AP story at Newsday.com. This just goes to prove the old adage,…
Gary Crabbe
April 7, 2006
Newsworthy

Score One for the Photographers

The National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) has reported a victory for photographers against New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority. All it took was the threat of a potential lawsuit by the New York Civil Liberties Union. It seems a bunch of (insert: arrogant, paranoid) transit police have been harrassing photographers…
Gary Crabbe
April 7, 2006
CopyrightNewsworthy

Ouch Thats gotta hurt

Bummer. According to an item in last weeks PDN Newswire, a copyright infringment case brought by several noted photographers has been tossed out of court. The three photographers, several of whom I (e)know through various professional forums, sued the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), a company that provides licensing for magazine…
Gary Crabbe
April 5, 2006
NewsworthyPhotos

Best PJ 2006

The National Press Photographer Association (NPPA) has posted the 2006 Best of Photojournalism Winners. As with most news related image exhibitions, there are some very graphic images that are not appropriate for younger viewers. The very first image in the first category (PhotoJournalist of the Year) is an amazing shot…
Gary Crabbe
March 28, 2006
NewsworthyPhotos

2006 – 63rd Annual POYI Winners

The winners of the 63rd annual Pictures of the Year International (POYI) Photography Competition for 2006 have been announced. There is some really great images, and while I haven't seen all the winning entries, there were a few that really caught my attention. In addition to a fun look at…
Gary Crabbe
March 13, 2006
NewsworthyPhotos

I want that one

It's certainly a nice photo. It should be. It just set a record. Selling at Sotheby's auction house in New York for nearly $3,000,000.00, this 1904 Edward Steichen print titled, The Pond-Moonlight became the most expensive photograph ever sold. The CBC reports that the print, purchased by a private collector,…
Gary Crabbe
March 3, 2006
NewsworthyPhoto BusinessTrademark

Railroaded by the Railroad

What do you do if you're getting railroaded by a railroad company? Well one answer, according to a photographer in Vancouver British Columbia, is to make a stand against the oncoming legal locomotive. According to a report in Trans Talk, a specialty blog on Vancouver transportation issues, The Union Pacific…
Gary Crabbe
February 23, 2006
NewsworthyPhoto BusinessPhotos

Non-Commercial Art For Sale

When can you make money selling photo prints of another person for tens of thousands of dollars, not pay the subject anything in return, get sued by an elder New York City Orthodox Jewish man, and win? Why, when you're selling ART, of course! At least, so says Manhattan Supreme…
Gary Crabbe
February 18, 2006
Enlightened Images
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