Its gratifying that the latest newsletter from The Association of Photographers reports what we have know has been needed for many years… that a new business model for the organisation is finally being put in place… whuhay!
Along with this is the final abandonment of its grandiose plans for expensive showcase premises in the East End [...]

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Press Release: For immediate release 1 June 2011
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The Association of Photographers is pleased to confirm that it has sold the building it owned in Leonard Street and is now leasing space back, until it has found and purchased new, more suitable premises.
The sale was prompted by the Association’s decision in December 2010 to close the [...]

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As you may know the UK government is making cuts in lots of areas.
The arts are so often seen as a “luxury” by politicians and that’s where some of the heaviest cuts fall.
Funding in the photography sector has felt that axe in today’s announcement.
All in all not a good day for the arts; for photography [...]

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Well Microsoft’s dalliance with DAM didn’t last too long. They announced their ending of support for Expression Media, the application they renamed after snapping up the originating company iView, a little while back. And its apparent demise sent loyal users scrabbling to find alternatives.
iView had been one of the earliest digital asset management programmes [...]

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Clause 43 of the Digital Economy Bill has been rejected, thus leaving photographer’s copyright in Orphan Works intact.
Here what the Stop43 campaign said…
Today, The Digital Economy Bill underwent its Committee Stage and Third Reading in the House of Commons. In the course of the debate, Clause 43 was removed from the Bill.
The way is [...]

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I wrote, as we have been urging all of you, to my MP, who happens to be a Lib Dem, regarding the Digital Economy Bill and specifically Clause 43. Here’s his reply…
Dear Ed,
Thank you for your email about the Digital Economy Bill and I can understand your concerns. Two Liberal Democrat Lords are seeking to [...]

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The web site Stop43 was launched yesterday and immediately attracted so many visitors that it crashed. Quite clearly it is the importance of the poorly considered government legislation going through parliament that is drawing photographers to this issue. Here’s what the Stop43 web site says about it…
You’ll have heard of the Digital Economy Bill: it [...]

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As we reported below, photographers are very concerned about the threat to copyright in their photographs that the Digital Economy Bill poses. However one part of it offers an interesting scenario…
“Amendment 120A to the Digital Economy Bill was voted through the House of Lords yesterday that could force Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to block websites [...]

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“The end game is now in sight. The Digital Economy Bill is now expected to become law within the next 6 weeks. It introduces orphan works usage rights, which – unless amended, which HMG says it will not – will allow the commercial use of any photograph whose author cannot be identified through a suitably [...]

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Prodig member Rodney Rascona cover the Tsunami in South East Asia in 2004.
Now he is on his way to Haiti around the third week of February, covering his first assignment for a period of about two weeks.
Rodney will be keeping the Prodig web site up to date with his work.
Some have labelled news coverage of [...]

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France’s Constitutional Council has validated the so-called “three strikes” law, clearing the way for an accelerated judicial process that will cut off the access of Internet users accused three times of downloading copyright content without authorisation.
This is clearly targeted at file sharing of music and movies. However is does cover all copyright material. We will [...]

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Twitter and Flickr have been the leading sources of news letting us know what is happening in Iran subsequent to the recent elections. Ahmadinajhad’s surprising landslide win, even in opposition strongholds, has led to the first widespread violent protests since the country’s revolution.
Mousavi1388 is the voice disseminating news of the opposition  leader MirHossein Mousavi, both [...]

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More from my CCTV photography project – bit less dystopia and a bit more narrative than ‘Reality TV’. Most of photographs in this video come from a background magazine I’ve done as part of the project.
The title? If you’re of a certain age you’ll remember the new wave classic by ‘The Normal’

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Jonathan Warren recorded the follow meeting regarding Police/Press relationships, which was held in light of recent confrontations between the two parties.
Jonathan is a freelance photographer based in London working for daily newspapers, magazines and news websites.
On Monday (18 May) Commander Broadhurst, head of public order at the Metropolitan Police spoke at the NUJ Photographers [...]

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