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The European Commission has adopted a Recommendation asking EU Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve the private sector in digitising cultural material. This is essential to make European cultural heritage more widely available and to boost growth in Europe’s creative industries. The digitised material…

In an audio slideshow put together by Miles Warde and Phil Coomes on the BBC News website Press Association photographer Lewis Whyld (pic above) talks about his experience on what turned out to be a ten hour shift photographing the start of the London Riots in August this year. It…

Parliament TV is screening the: Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property today – meeting starts at 10.30am…/ UPDATE 10.35am Witnesses: i. British Library – Forum of Private Business – Motion Picture Association – Publishers Association – Stop 43. ii. Peter Wishart MP – Creative Coalition – Open Rights Group – PRS…

Photo agency London News Pictures LNP are celebrating a year in business today. Photoarchivenews.com reported their arrival last year – here is what they have to say a year down the line: “It’s been a whole year since LNP opened for business. We have had a fantastic first year with…

Nature, People, Places, Science and Adventure stock footage agency nhnz are offering free ‘capture & creation of digital or tape masters, transfers or delivery’ when you licence from them this month – they say ” Your tech costs will be waived on finalisation of footage license agreement as long as…

They Say: OTTO is a full-service architectural and design photography agency dedicated to licensing the work of preeminent architects and designers from around the world as captured by master contemporary photographers. Founded by Thea Vaughan and Bill Hannigan, OTTO is committed to delivering images of iconic architecture and design. The…

Global Image Works ‘Snowed’ But Available – details on AboutTheImage.com…

Photographer Kevin German at photographer owned cooperative LUCEO Images has mapped his current ‘real time’ location in Vietnam and records a trail of images relating to where he has photographed throughout the country using Google Maps. Find him here: KevinGerman…

‘Moore screamed obscenities, stunning on-lookers.’ Our photographer tells us: “Demi was upset. I was just standing on the sidewalk, trying to get a few shots of her and she didn’t want any part of it. She definitely wants OUT of the spotlight.” … read more here: X17online.com And here, the…

How do you make music? – Lebrecht Music & Arts photographers can answer the question with unusual rehearsal images of musicians at work, many of which are unique to their collection. They say: ‘Click through the pictures above to view a series of images taken by our newest photographer, Laura…

‘AboutTheImage.com covered the lead up to the PACA Conference in New York last weekend – now we are reporting feed back on the event from those who were there, listed below as they come in’: here…

Russian photo agency RIA Novosti have uploaded a couple of ‘newly-acquired’ images of Vladimir Putin in 1990s click through the images to license.…

Miami based stock music library JewelBeat.com has launched a 99 cent music download service for commercial and non-commercial projects. Read on at AboutTheImage.com…

Picture Power: Portraits of Five Leading Press Photographers: BBC Radio 4 – 3.45pm Monday 31st Oct. BBC: ‘Miles Warde presents the first of five programmes featuring famous press photographers. Largely recorded in real time, they offer drama and insight into professionals at work. In the first programme James Hill of…

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PACA have made available the program for the 16th PACA Conference taking place this weekend in New York – download yours here…

Topfoto have re released their ‘Gaddafi’ files (top left) on the announcement of his death, click the Colin Jones image above or visit here: Colonel Gaddafi and Libya: Past and Present Rex Features were up with their Gallery (top right) at 1.27pm yesterday afternoon, within a minute of the news…