A Photo Editor

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

“Many of Mr. Lois’s covers were controversial, not so say irreverent or deliberately provocative. The Liston cover cost the magazine $750,000 in dropped advertising. But they were immensely successful at drawing attention, on the newsstand especially.”
“What was remarkable then — and seems even more so now, when virtually every magazine cover is a thicket of [...]

Mikhail Prokhorov — whose wealth is estimated at around $22 billion — plans to spend $150 million setting up a magazine, website and television station called Snob, the general director of the new venture told Reuters on Wednesday.
“It’s for people who are successful and those who want to be successful,” said Andrei
Shmarov, who will run [...]

Advertising is on a self destructive path where you need more louder ads to break through the clutter which in turn creates more clutter. Referral from trusted sources will soon become the way most people find things.
Asking another photo editor has always been one of the best ways to find a photographer.
Read all about it [...]

Hoo Boy, David Hobby hit it big with a story in USA Today (here). Wonder how many new readers he has now. Pressure is on David. Good luck.
Thanks John.

500 submissions edited down to the final 20 for this new print publication of contemporary photographers. See the finalists (here).
Worth a visit becuase the work is outstanding.

“Writers are sensitive souls–generally intelligent and hardworking but easily bruised. Treat them right, though, and you will be rewarded. Writers shape words into luminous sentences and the sentences into exquisitely crafted paragraphs. They weave the paragraphs together into a near perfect article, essay or review. Then their writing–their baby–is ripped untimely from their computers (well, [...]

“CBS, the home of the most celebrated news division in broadcasting, has been in discussions with Time Warner about a deal to outsource some of its news-gathering operations to CNN, two executives briefed on the matter said Monday.”
Read about it (here), NYTimes.com.

Hilarious lolvantgarde (here) discovered by Rachel over at Shoot the Blog (here).