Professional Photographers as Road Kill
Google wants to publish your images and make revenue from the uploads*. Your share: nothing.
Orphan Works is back again and it doesn’t look any better for photographers.
A building falls down in Brooklyn and the NY Times reports it. In their online report there are photos crediting Google's Street View for a photo of the building and crowd-sourced images and videos. No professional photographers.
The NY Times also posts a blog suggestion that people download photos and print them out to create inexpensive wall decor. The resulting chaos shows that few people actually understand the copyright laws.
Summer is here and professional photographers are looking more like collateral damage every day.
We’ll try to start a discussion here about new business models for photographers because we don’t see this discussion happening anywhere else.
It seems that the trade associations are putting the bulk of their energies into teaching “good business practices.” And therein lies the rub. Many of these practices are outdated. While they do cover what every business is required to know to be profitable, and teach how to promote work using the web, they don’t teach how to actually earn money off the web, or how to cope with the crowdsourcing movement.
So in the days ahead, we’ll try to show how some leaders actually imprisoned the whole industry with their own success and how difficult it is to change the industry’s status quo.
Our goal here is not to criticize, but to get people thinking , to get debate going and to reboot the industry.
Stay tuned.
* Have you seen the sample of Google's new scanning of million of magazines? Did you grant Google or the publisher permission to publish your photos online?
Summer is here and professional photographers are looking more like collateral damage every day.
We’ll try to start a discussion here about new business models for photographers because we don’t see this discussion happening anywhere else.
It seems that the trade associations are putting the bulk of their energies into teaching “good business practices.” And therein lies the rub. Many of these practices are outdated. While they do cover what every business is required to know to be profitable, and teach how to promote work using the web, they don’t teach how to actually earn money off the web, or how to cope with the crowdsourcing movement.
So in the days ahead, we’ll try to show how some leaders actually imprisoned the whole industry with their own success and how difficult it is to change the industry’s status quo.
Our goal here is not to criticize, but to get people thinking , to get debate going and to reboot the industry.
Stay tuned.
* Have you seen the sample of Google's new scanning of million of magazines? Did you grant Google or the publisher permission to publish your photos online?
1 comments:
is that a raccoon? poor thing..
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