Bowing to Pressure from Users, Instagram Retracts New Terms of Use
Under a continuing barrage of negative feedback, account cancellations, and defections by its users to other photo sharing services, Instagram has withdrawn the most controversial changes to its terms...
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Another Copyright Infringement Ends In Charity Donation, Good PR For Infringer
A friend informed Theron Humphrey that So Delicious had used one of his images on Facebook without permission or credit. For the second time in a week a photographer has settled a copyright dispute by...
View ArticlePhotogs Dish Anonymously About Clients’ Rates Via New Tumblr Site
A new site on Tumblr set up by an anonymous editorial photographer seeks to provide a platform where photographers can share information about what clients in all fields, from editorial to advertising...
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Forget Tumblr: Yahoo! Has Big Plans for Flickr
Like most of the media world, I assumed yesterday’s Yahoo! press event in New York City’s Times Square would be about the company’s purchase of the blogging site Tumblr. Imagine my surprise when it was...
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Instagram Demonstrates Powerful Video Stabilization – on a Smartphone
Professional photographers don’t often turn to a smartphone to shoot video. But in the new video offering announced by Instagram today is technology that could eventually be a great addition to the...
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New Look PhotoShelter Adds Portfolio Sites and Social Media Integration
The homepage of photographer Robin Moore’s new PhotoShelter Beam portfolio site. Moore was among the photographers who beta tested Beam. Today PhotoShelter launched Beam, its new portfolio website...
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Startup Aims to Help Media License Amateur News Photos for $20 Apiece
© Huffington Post. An image sourced by CrowdMedia from Twitter user @mcc_maryland, whose plane was on the tarmac at SFO during the Asiana Airlines crash, was used in a gallery on Huffington Post. A...
View ArticleFacebook Makes Alarming Changes to Terms, ASMP Breaks Down the Changes
Facebook has altered their terms of service to make it possible for companies that pay the social media network to utilize Facebook users’ content and likeness without compensation or permission. The...
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White House Shuts Out Photographers Again. So Now What?
The White House released this photo of President Obama and the Dalai Lama on Feb. 21, after barring press photographers from the meeting. Now that it is evident that the White House is deaf to...
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PDN’s 30 Photographers Provide Career Tips to Aspiring Photographers
A panel featuring three of this year’s PDN’s 30 photographers discussed strategies for building a successful career and offered a wealth of useful tips to an audience of students and industry...
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