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  Good Information on Orphan Works

  and law making in general over at Photo Business News and Forum (here).

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  Webby's Announced- Whale Hunt Photo Story A Winner

  Big win for The Whale Hunt photography story (see it here) in the Personal Web Site category. National Geographic picked up two for Best Use Of Photography and Magazine. See the entire list (here).

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  Copyright Hell- Happy Birthday Song

  Patry Copyright Blog points us to this 67 1/2 page treatise on The Happy Birthday Song:

  "'Happy Birthday to You' is the best-known and most frequently sung song in the world. ...However, it is almost certainly no longer under copyright, due to a lack of evidence about who wrote the words; defective copyright notice; and a failure to file a proper renewal application."

  "It also reveals collective action barriers to mounting challenges to copyright validity: the song generates an estimated $2 million per year, and yet no one has ever sought adjudication of the validity of its copyright."

  Read all of it (here).

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  AP On Your Phone

  http://www.apnews.com/

  Via, TechCrunch.

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  The State of the Printing Industry

  Steve Frye. In a sidebar in the current issue of Publishing Executive titled The State of the Printing Industry Frye drops this bomb:

  I think we need to change our philosophy of what a magazine is. We are no longer a cheap means of dispensing information, and that’s what we were until the Internet came along. Now we are an inefficient and expensive means of distributing information. … We need to reinvent ourselves as a luxury item that people want and are willing to pay for. And until we change our own image of who we are, we’re going to find out that our vendors are gong to change it for us. Because, right now, postage is a premium. Paper is a premium. Soon printing will be a premium. How long can we buy at a premium and sell at a discount? We can’t.

  Via, Michael Turro (here).

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  Dumbo Gallery Walk Video

  
  (large video here) from
  Daniel K. Gebhart

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  Derek Shapton Video

  Heather Morton made a cool video about a photography project Derek Shapton is working on (here).

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  Nova Releases Raw Footage To Consumers

  Nova releases the raw footage shot for NOVA's "Car of the Future" documentary.

  "This experiment marks the first time we have ever made raw video available to the public, and we're eager to see what you make from it. It's because of viewers like you, as the saying goes, that we're able to produce NOVA. In this age of new media we're pleased to be able to work more closely with you to make our programming more engaging and to be able to offer you more."

  See it (here). Via TWIM (here).

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  ASPP- Photography Meets Book Cover Design

  The American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP) New York Chapter presents

  PHOTOGRAPHY MEETS BOOK COVER DESIGN
  Prominent book designers Ann Twomey and Henry Sene Yee discussing the role photography plays in their work.
  Wednesday, May 7, 2008 from 6:00 pm -8:30 pm
  Laura Parsons Pratt Conference Center
  281 Park Ave South at 22nd Street
  Space is limited. Please RSVP by May 5, 2008 Go (here) to register.

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  Copyright Panel Discussion

  Who Owns This Image?
  Art, Access, and the Public Domain after Bridgeman v. Corel

  Tuesday, April 29, 2008
  6:30 – 8:00 pm

  New York City Bar Association
  42 W. 44th Street, New York City
  The Great Hall

  Read more on the Patry Copyright blog (here).