Every photographer ought to be registering photos with US Copyright Office to protect their work from abuse and infringement. You can’t sue for copyright infringement without registration. A week ago, I came across this article on the Photo Attorney blog – Copyright Office Encourages Filers to Include Titles of Unpublished Works with Registration. Along with…
Wondering if you should sue for copyright infringement? This article details information I learned when I discovered copyright infringement on my photos downloaded from Flickr. It wasn’t the first copyright infringement I discovered, but this was the first time I filed a lawsuit to protect my rights and seek money damages for my original work….
WebUrbanist Takes My Photo Without My Consent I’ve said it before. If you put your photos on the web, someone will come along and take them. It happened to me again this weekend. While looking over my traffic stats for the blog, I noticed some visitors coming from a URL I didn’t recognize or anticipate…
I never really see it as a subject by itself. It’s said in passing. We know of some photographers who made the switch from film to digital, but far more of us seemed to only get serious after the advent of digital photography. Something encouraged us to make the leap, so what was it? My…
One of the things that I really liked about the Zack Arias OneLight DVD was a photograph he showed to illustrate the Inverse Square Law, or in simpler terms, light fall-off. In it the photo, he marked off the light meter readings to show the f/stop of light as it traveled away from its source….
Last Wednesday night, I finally got off my ass and went out to shoot a performance. I’d like to thank Alan Hess and Maile Hatfield for setting me up with an opportunity to shoot Mark Karan and his band at The Social in Orlando. I’d also like to thank Michelle Hedstrom for mocking me when…