What To Look For When Signing A Contract With An Agent
On the heels of our interview with Howard Bernstein about photographers landing agents I have a question from a reader about contracts with agents. I asked APE contributor Suzanne Sease since she’s seen it all to weigh in on what percentage is reasonable and what to look for when signing a contract with an agent....
Fear Of Failure
What is the key to producing constant, memorable work over a number of years? A healthy fear of failure. You’ve got to get behind the mule every morning and plow. via – Grids – SPD.ORG. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking to buy a new website? A Photo Folio is a website design company created by A Photo Editor. Have...
How Amazon Snuck Up On Mainstream Publishing In Plain Sight
The publishing world has been continuously startled by the announcements of Amazon’s new print publishing imprints, and this has been going on for a good year. It’s quite funny that Amazon was able to sneak up on everyone, since this has been part of a chain of events dating back to at least 2005 and...
Copyright Watch: The Liability-Proof World of Pinterest
Pinterest puts all legal risk squarely in the lap of its users, while reaping the rewards of their free labor, the free content they upload and their growing appeal to potential advertisers via PDN Online. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking to buy a new website? A Photo Folio is a website design company created by A Photo Editor....
Sometimes You’re Just A Camera Monkey
Assignment photography is a hot-dog factory where the end results are images rather than sausages. If people saw what went into some of this stuff there’s no way they’d want anything to do with it. The sad reality is that there are all kinds of reasons you’re brought in on projects, some of them more...
The Freelancer Payment Protection Act
via, the Freelancers Union: Support the Freelancer Payment Protection Act Send Letters to Senator Dean Skelos : 394 Letters Sent So Far What is the Freelancer Payment Protection Act? The FPPA would help independent workers in New York collect money from clients who don’t pay. How would it help? Victims of nonpayment will be able...
The History Of Photography Is One Of New Technologies Challenging Old Perspectives
“If you make an image look different enough, peculiar enough, I think that’s that hook,” he said. “I think that if you create a different aesthetic than people are used to seeing, you can attract the public — you can bring them in and then all of a sudden that is when the content is...
How Does A Photographer Land An Agent?
APE contributor Meaghen Brown interviews Howard Bernstein about the most often asked question we get. Considered among New York’s most respected photography agents, Howard Bernstein, has been keeping an eye on talented photographers for over 25 years now, and his artists management firm, Bernstein and Andriulli, now boasts a hot-list of clients ranging from Adidas...
Agence France-Presse got caught with a hand in the cookie jar and will have to pay
Morel, in his memorandum of law, says that AFP’s defense would fail even its own policies. On the Getty Images’ website, according to Morel’s representatives, a document titled Copyright 101 states that one of the common misconceptions about copyright is that if “an image is on the internet, it’s in the public domain and I...
Why Social Media Sites Need An Unlimited License To Your Images
Here’s the most clearheaded explanation I’ve ever found of the TOS rights grab that’s become standard for any social media site where you upload your content (images): In a world where sharing a photo is strictly a matter of getting another copy made and mailing it, or getting it published, copyrights are pretty easy to...
New Fees Proposed For Copyright Registration
I received the following mass email from Stephen Best, APA National CEO and I’m sure many of you did too but it looks important enough to bring up here The United States Copyright Office has proposed “new fees for the registration of claims, recordation of documents, special services, Licensing Division services, and processing of FOIA...
Perfect Practice
“Practice doesn’t make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. What if you’re practicing it wrong?” via Marketing Essentials International. Buying a new website? APhotoFolio.com builds portfolio websites for photographers. Have a look (here). --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking to buy a new website? A Photo Folio is a website design company created by A Photo Editor. Have a...
