A short guide to photographers rights in the UK
This is intended to provide a short UK guide to the main legal restrictions on the right to take photographs and the right to publish photographs that have been taken.
The guide was written by Linda Macpherson LL.B, Dip.L.P., LL.M, who is a lecturer in law at Heriot [...]

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This BBC Radio interview features a discussion with Austin Mitchell MP about his Early Day Motion in parliament. It concerns controlling officious behaviour by police, security guards and others who may try to stop photographers, whether amateur or professional, who are going about their legal business.

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EPUK, the forum for editorial photographers, has launched a sister web site “Copyright Action”.
Their first major item carries news from the Stock Artists Alliance is about the Orphan Works Bill passing into law in the USA.
link: Orphan Works Bills introduced in USA

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A new ‘techniques and technology’ exhibition is being launched in London this summer.
“Digital Photography and Imaging” is the collaboration of Bob Denton (Xpo Group) and Garrett Doyle.
“The DPI show is designed to provide all pro-photographers with a stimulating, knowledge-based opportunity to refresh and update their understanding of the techniques and technologies, the latest ideas in [...]

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Austin Mitchell MP has drawn on cross-party support from 150 other MPs, calling on the Home Office and the police to educate officers about photographers’ rights.
“There’s a general alarm about terrorism and about paedophiles, two heady cocktails, and police, police community support officers and wardens and authorities generally seem to be worried about this.” said [...]

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OK so the weather forecast wasn’t quite right, you’ve had to call off today’s location shoot and now you’re sitting around the studio twiddling your thumbs.
Well thanks to the kind people at Taco Bell all is not lost. You can still do a bikini shoot today… mind you it might not go the way you’d [...]

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Always wanted to get mastery of your own colour profiles, but just found it all too daunting?
Well its been just over two years since former rival X-Rite acquired Gretag-Macbeth and the new X-Rite ColorMunki is their attempt to give you a device that will do just that.
The X-Rite ColorMunki is an all in one [...]

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Here’s a video podcast from Lucy Nicholson giving a 4 minute insight into Reuters coverage of the Super Bowl final and the technology they use to get the pictures back to the editors in the office.
link: Lucy Blog Super Bowl

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New in version 2.0 beta…
An improved layout in the Library module allows for a more intuitive approach to image organization by simplifying the location of the features needed to find and filter photographs. A new feature called Smart Collections automatically updates collections with images that match desired criteria such as star-rating, keyword or other metadata. [...]

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