It’s wrong to laugh at others obviously, but this really is funny. Not jealous of his Leica at all, oh no.
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Guinness and laptops!
So whilst night Emma and I made a quick trip to the Gowlett to have a pint and use the free wireless to order a holiday. Just about to press ‘pay’ and I manage to knock half a glass of Guinness into my laptop. Screen goes dead, whip the battery out and pour the Guinness out. Don’t think it’s that good for the innards. Fingers crossed the M+S Insurance comes through.
Fingers crossed.
Read MoreBuilding Design are at it again! Using my imagery without permission! So on last Friday the issue of BD hit my desk where I find there is a full page use of one of my site images of the Ashmolean Museum taken shortly before it opened to the public last October. Great I thought and nice to be published again.
They were provided this image in a press pack last year for FREE and have obviously kept it on their server for later use. Unfortunately the license was clear that a credit must always be provided. BD don’t seem to care about this bit. The copyright information is also clearly embedded in the IPTC metadata of the file.
So I’m going to send them an invoice for each time they use images against the terms of the license. It’s not as if it’s the first time it’s happened with images at BD? If they keep using this image uncredited in the rest of their marketing material for this event I should be in for quite a windfall.
Nice to see another of my images used in a prominent position on a well read website.
Not so nice to see that they couldn’t be bothered to credit the Photographer. Not much to ask is it?
More and more magazines seem to be struggling with making revenue when there is so much seemingly real time information coming out on the web. One of those organisations is Building Design who are owned by UBM media. They’ve stopped free circulation of their weekly paper to architects due to falling ad revenue. They’ve even locked the website down so that only registered users can login, presumably so they can track users habits and provide greater insight for their advertisers. The trouble is that the login system has completely broken down today. So as well as no weekly paper, the website is completely inaccessible. Seems like one hell of a balls up, but then that’s computers for you.
So instead of seeing news stories, I’m seeing this.
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