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fotofringe London April 26 exhibitor Writer Pictures say: ‘Stop by and say hello to our library manager Sheila Masson – If you are a picture researcher, publisher, designer, art director, art buyer please pop along for a chat and an insight into what we do and who we do it…

Watch – A freelance press photographer is prevented from his work by a Community Support Officer. He says ‘Community Support Officers with no understanding of the law trying to prevent me from photographing on Oxford Street. In the end, I missed the shot I wanted to take due to their…

This is the sort of info the industry needs to be putting out… Timothy B. McCormack a Seattle-based attorney writes a tips post on Seattle PI blog: Copyright Infringement Letter For Images on Your Website! ‘Photo agencies such as Getty Images and Corbis Images are known to be persistent copyright…

VideoMediatest in Italy have a clip of Nicolas Cage explaining ‘celebrity’ here: video.mediaset.it…

The photo editors at Reuters have put together a 36 photo slideshow of Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook visiting the iPhone production line at the newly built Foxconn Zhengzhou Technology Park in Zhengzhou, Henan province China. The credit reads: REUTERS/Apple/Handout…

Press Association Images have kindly booked their support of the Press Photo History Project with a banner ad on the PPHP website. The PPHP is a PhotoArchiveNews.com initiative to record and map all the photo agencies and press photographers from 1904. The PPHP also works daily bringing together copyright and…

“Clive Barda”, a new 70 minute movie about the photographer by the film maker Philippe Monnet. The full movie will be shown at “Exposure!”, a 100 image retrospective of Clive Barda’s photographic career, touring major China opera venues in 2012. Clive’s images are licensed by UK based photo library ArenaPal,…

Seattle Business Magazine has a new interview with Corbis CEO Gary Shenk in their Executive Q&A … Corbis is “midsize”: “ Bill likes that we’re a midsize company in a relatively small sector, so it’s like a chess game in which you have relative control. ” The USP is product…

Photographer David Corio has a post on the Getty Images blog entertainment pages recalling his shoot with Dexys Midnight Runners in the 1980 just before their first major single, “Geno” became a hit. See the photos, read his post, remember the band…. ‘Come on Eileen’ Also looks like the band…

Autosport magazine published by UK magazine publisher Haymarket – has launched its iPad app. The app is primarily a digital version of the magazine, although Autosport is adding video and audio content each week with further interactivity planned for the future. Details: The app is free to download, with each…

Jackson Lee/Splash News: ‘most downloaded image in February’ Candid celebrity news agency Splash is reporting a continued growth with images being added to Splashnews.com and Corbis.com (Splash was acquired by Corbis last summer) at a rate of 5,000 a day, up from 3,000 a day a year ago. Their celebrity…

UK based travel stock photography agency 4Corners is celebrating 4Corners Motography – ‘our growing collection of new UK Photography we’ve made using the VW California camper’ by offering you an opportunity to win a week long adventure in their modern camper van this August. 4Corners contributing photographer Andy Callan used…

Now on ITVPlayer in the UK Perspectives: David Suchet – People I Have Shot Today on ITV1 (25th March) 10:15pm – 11:15pm David Suchet follows in the footsteps of his grandfather, the famous Fleet Street photographer Jimmy Jarche, in a quest to capture on camera how Britain has changed in…

On our U.S. stock photo news site: • Spotted: photonewzealand – New Images Uploaded • Newscom Increases World Stock Images Offering • Fotolia Adds Crowdsourcing Design Company To It’s Offer…

Gonzalo E. Mon on Mashable reports: ‘The Copyright Question: How to Protect Yourself on Pinterest’ …’Some have incorrectly concluded that Pinterest owns everything posted on the site. And others have correctly pointed out that posting other people’s pictures without permission could be problematic’…. Full report here: Mashable.com…

The Independent reports; ‘Publishing and events business Emap is understood to have lined up corporate adviser Hawkpoint to sell its trade magazines business, which includes industry-leading titles Nursing Times and Broadcast.’ Full report here: independent.co.uk…

This into request into our Picture Researchers dedicated site: Dear Will, we have spoken over the phone earlier on this afternoon. As I mentioned to you I am looking for a photo editor that can help me devise a style for my book which will be based on a collection…