Photoshelter on Tuesday March 4th released a Flickr Importer to enable Flickr members to migrate their photographs to their service. The import function is hardly as noteworthy as the export function of the tool which allows Photoshelter members to export watermarked images to Flickr. In an odd twist reported on March 5th Flickr disabled the ability of Photoshelters Importer to function. The exact reason the importer
Photography Bay has dug up an interesting patent filed by Canon regarding “Iris Registration”. The patent titled “PICTURE TAKING APPARATUS AND METHOD OF CONTROLLING SAME” (Pub. No.: US 2008/0025574 A1) details a mechanism for a camera to capture an image of a photographers iris and embedding it in the pixel data of the images they take. “Another object of the present invention is to prov
Over the past week a catchy video has been circulating the web titled “Here Comes Another Bubble” (Note: this link is dead as of 12/11/07). The video has music created by the Richter Scales sung to Billy Joel’s “We didn’t start the fire”. The video itself is comprised solely of photos of a variety of technology icons who have started Web 2.0 companies that many think are way over p
New Registration Fees are in Effect Electronic submission via the Electronic Copyright Office (eCO) now costs $35 Registration with paper forms now cost $65 As an offshoot to my article “Flickr + _Rebekka + Availability of High Resolution Images = Nightmare” I thought it might be beneficial to go into greater detail about what I do to protect my work using copyrights and why. First I will say that I am no
A huge storm has hit Flickr as of late and sadly most of it is a predictable story. The components of this story comprise of… – a very open system with many protection options – a talented but naive photographer – availability of high resolution images for download (to be confirmed) The surprises… – Flickr making a bad situation worse by deleting the story of the effected artist