July 14th, 2008
Chicago, June 12, 2008 — VHT, Inc., a leading provider of visual marketing services, has released the results of its exclusive survey of agents‘ and brokers’ marketing activities. With more than 1,300 respondents, the survey provides a national, look at how real estate professionals, in the US, allocate marketing dollars for print, television, direct mail […]
July 9th, 2008
Apparently Getty Images and flickr.com have struck a deal and developed some tools for Getty Images editors to scan through flickr groups looking for photographic talent. If a photographer is chosen by Getty Image editors. According to the article on techcrunch.com, “Each selected member will have their images licensed through a special Flickr-branded section of […]
July 1st, 2008
Copyright office moves to online registration - “Beginning July 1, 2008, the US Copyright Office is offering online registration of claims to copyright. Online registration through the electronic Copyright Office (eCO) is the preferred way to register basic claims for literary works and photographs.” See more details at: photoattorney.com
Full frame Nikon D700: “Nikon has announced […]
June 30th, 2008
The good news is that current market conditions are such that good real estate photography is needed more than ever to sell homes. The bad news is that even many experienced listing agents are having a hard time financially. This was driven home to me recently when I heard of several top listing agents that […]
June 25th, 2008
Via: Thomas Bliss’s IAAP site and Carolyn Wright’s Photo Attorney blog:
“Liz Ordonez-Dawes, an accomplished architectural and interior design photographer, recently was awarded more than $12 million dollars for copyright infringement of seven photographs. In brief, the court found that the defendants distributed Ms. Ordonez-Dawes’ photos of high-end houses to various third parties for advertisements to […]
June 20th, 2008
Caterina Fake and Stewart Butterfield, flickr co-founders, are leaving Yahoo. Their resignation is just part of the brain drain that is going on at Yahoo. Yahoo, who purchased flickr in 2005 for $35M is currently going through a corporate upheaval during the last few months. Hopefully this won’t have an effect on our hugely effective […]
June 19th, 2008
About a month ago I did a post highlighting some background on the The Shawn Bentley Orphan Works Act of 2008 legislation pending in the house and senate. Thanks to Carolyn Wright over at photoattorney.com I just noticed that there is a petition to sign registering sentiment against this legislation.
June 10th, 2008
Lightroom Exchange: “When you look for plugins and addons to Adobe products, most users would be encouraged to go to the Adobe Exchange site. This is where developers would add and advertise their product, be it free or commercial. Up until recently this wasn’t possible for Lightroom users, but now we finally have a Lightroom […]
May 30th, 2008
If you haven’t noticed Congress is on it’s way to passing some legislation that will radically change the way copyright law works. Photographers owning copyrighted material will be effected by these laws if passed. I suggest taking the time to understand what is about to happen with copyright and if you don’t like it, express […]
May 7th, 2008
Back in January of this year we asked for you help in finding a marrow donor for Realtor Scott Kleiman. Susanne Hayek just reported that a donor has been found for Scott. Susanne says:
A donor for Scott has been found! All we know is that she is a young (20 something) woman from overseas. She […]
