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Aug
Posted in Links & Articles, Videos by Jim |
A surprising observation I made a couple years ago is that of all the places I’ve traveled Crows have been everywhere but the Arctic. This includes 13,000 foot mountains down to sub-sea level Death Valley. Not only are Crows everywhere its easy to determine that they’re a thinking animal with problem solving skills. I’ve seen them wait out people to get their trash and I’ve seen Crows gang up on Red-Tail Hawks in my neighborhood. All of these memories and observations came to a head after viewing a very interesting TED presentation by Joshua Klein on The Amazing Intelligence of Crows. I highly recommend watching this 10 minute video. I guarantee you’ll never look at a Crow the same way and it might make you think twice about the intelligence of other species.
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In mid-April there was an excellent panel discussion “Copyright in a Hyper Digital Age” put on by ASMP discussing the changing landscape of Copyright law as it impacts photographers. A variety of discussions took place, but the most timely and interesting was about the Orphans Work legislation that is again being discussed in the US Congress and US Senate. No other legislation is likely to have as big of an impact on photographers in recent years as the Orphans Work legislation. Mr. Vic Perlman, ASMP General Council, gives an informative description and update in this video that was recorded a week before Orphans Work legislation was reintroduced in Washington D.C.
This video is 24 minutes long and I highly recommend watching it in full. I guarantee you’ll find it of value if you’re serious about providing full protection to your photographic work. After this discussion there were additional comments provided by each panel member. I will be posting individual videos of each panelists comments tomorrow. Stay Tuned. ASMP should be releasing a podcast and/or videos which covered this portion of the event.
Update: This video covers only the first two speakers. Additional videos of the other speakers will be added shortly.
Update #2: The remaining videos are now available after the jump.
Vic Perlmann, General Counsel ASMP and Mike Linksvayer, Vice President Creative Commons
For other Orphans Works legislation discussions check the following sights:
For the techies out there this video was taken with a Nokia N95. I’ve been amazed at how well the video on this phone works. The resolution on videos taken with this phone are incredibly good. Too good for online hosting services. Stay tuned for more I got a lot out of my limited time with the Nokia N95 and have more videos from the phone coming. Read more… »
