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Blogger goes ape over agency “extortion” letter


posted on 12th of october, 2012
Copywriting expert and blogger, Ryan Healy has posted about what he feels are extortionary tactics used by a traditional stock agency to claim damages from images used on websites unlawfully.

As a copywriting professional, Healy paints a compelling picture of how he used a RM stock image unlawfully by mistake, why he feels he has been treated unfairly by the agency and why he further feels the agency is charging too much to settle the matter.

In the comments section of his blog, I tried to play the role of the agency's “advocate” – pointing out why they would and could not share his views on the unlawful use of one of their photographer's images. I further went into great detail explaining the differences between RF and RM image licenses and why from their perspective,...

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Posted by Solidsdman on October 12, 2012
GI has a "take no prisoners" attitude with illegal use of their images, mistaken or not. I'm a contributor to their subsidiary, IS, and I've had money from my account subtracted because of image theft. They don't mess around.



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Sharpening the creative saw – Vega’s Wedding Photo Course


posted on 17th of october, 2012
Over the past few weeks I’ve been attending Vega School of Brand Leadership’s Wedding Photography course in Durban, South Africa. It’s likely that wedding photography is the most demanding of all photographic assignments. So it stands to reason that if one can learn to deliver excellent creative photographic work in the pressure cooker of a wedding environment, one can probably cope with any assignment outside a war zone.

The Vega Durban photography course has been an enjoyably fair mixture of business and photographic training. Those attending had an equally fair balance of skill and experience.

Course presenter, Georgie Gartrell, was dead right with his opening statement – that photography and in particular, wedding photography, is a competitive field and in order...

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