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Photo industry keywording company Keyword Smart are putting some serious time into free keywording advice and analysis through the company blog in a series called ’10 Ways that Stock Houses can be different in their Keywording Standards’. Every Thursday Keyword Smart founder Jody Apap (photo above) picks a well known…

Media and Photo law specialists Swan Turton report: INNOCENCE IS NO DEFENCE: HOFFMAN v DRUG ABUSE RESISTANCE EDUCATION (UK) LTD The Patents County Court issued a much needed judgment last week on the subject of websites infringing copyright in photographs. The defendant, a charity, used 19 of professional photographer David…

BBC’s Tanya Beckett offers a (short) behind-the-scenes tour of the World Economic Forum in Davos, in the areas where the media organise their coverage – here: BBC…

Jobs posted today on AboutTheImage.com Electronic Records Policy and Program Coordinator – Virginia Digital Preservation Librarian – Michigan…

Drama which explores the love affair between photographer David Bailey and supermodel Jean Shrimpton after they are sent to New York for a prestigious Vogue photo shoot in 1962. We’ll Take Manhattan…

UK based photographer Peter Dench is now represented at Reportage By Getty Images. They say: He works primarily in the editorial, portraiture, video and advertising fields of image making. He is a keen and astute observer of human nature, and in particular some of the more quirky aspects of life.…

The producer of a film about legendary picture editor John G Morris, 95, is looking for help getting the film funded and finished. My name is Cathy Pearson and I have been making this film since Oct 2009 in the role of producer/director. I first met John G Morris in…

fotofringe London (9am-5pm on Thursday 26 April 2012) Update Flora Smith, fotofringe organiser told Photoarchivenews.com this morning: “I am delighted to see almost double the number of picture libraries and agencies represented at fotofringe 2012. Resulting in a huge range of image subjects being covered.” “Registrations for the day continue…

London based stock photo music specialists ArenaPal are now representing images from French photo agency Le Desk. ArenaPal say: “In our relentless quest to bring you the very best in performing arts we are delighted to highlight at the start of 2012 the inclusion of over 1000 images from France’s…

Royalty-free multimedia stock platform Pond5 are extending their holiday download giveaway promotion – 50 Free Stock Media Gifts – until 31 Jan. Here’s the giveaway announcement from December – ‘In the spirit of the season Pond5 is offering media producers 50 free stock video, audio and AE files available for…

Photoarchivenews.com spotted photographer Dave Powell on our Google+ feed – he is shooting Tokyo, talking about shooting Tokyo, selling prints of his shots of Tokyo and even sells T-Shirts with his website name on! – a great example of a full web based photo blog/business, and it looks like he…

Photo business observer Paul Melcher writes: ‘iTune it’ ‘Just like the music industry, with which it shares many similarities, the photo licensing world is ripe to be iTuned.’ ‘The industry landscape is dispersed and confused. None of the photo licensing companies know what to do. From the Getty images to…

Mark Ippolito, CEO and co-founder of Evolve Images, discusses the guiding principals behind his new photo agency, including image curation, simplified licensing, and creating a sustainable stock photo ecosystem. Video and images copyright Evolve Images, LLC. Explore and license the images here: https://www.evolveimages.com/…

UK based Photo agency Writer Pictures correctly predicted the winner of the Costa Book Awards on the agency’s blog yesterday. Novelist Andrew Miller won the award – Writer Pictures have photos from the award and portraits of Miller in their extensive photo library available for license now.…

India’s national magazine Frontline reports on the death of ‘a truly gifted photojournalist’ Homai Vyarawalla. ‘The year was 1993, when my friend Satish Sharma, an excellent photographer who is completely dedicated to photography, introduced me to a small, thin and almost wispy woman of 80. He, not given to panegyrics,…

The Digital Book World Conference & Expo is live in New York… more at AboutTheImage.com…

The very good people at the newly released Getty Images Blog have added PhotoArchiveNews.com to their ‘Blogs We Read’ listing – Scroll down to find us and few other worthwhile reads – nice!…

Following the report we published on Jan 17th by PhotoArchiveNews.com contributor John Balean — Your Chance to Respond to UK Copyright: The Case for Change — John now reports on the meeting he attended last week organised by BAPLA with the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) held at the Wellcome Trust…