Keywords: handbook, photographers, stock, photomarketing, freelance
COPYRIGHT PERMISSION and LIBEL HANDBOOK by Jassin & Schecter explains these areas in great detail and will be helpful to photographers. It covers both USA and British law. Especially of interest is when the "Fair Use" provision of the Copyright Law comes into play. For example one judge ruled that the magazine, The Nation’s use of 300 words from President Ford’s 20,000-word unpublished memoirs was not fair use; while on the other hand that the Moral Majority’s reproduction of a full-page ad from Hustler Magazine was fair use. Libel rarely comes in to play in the editorial stock photo field, at least with photographers. Publishers who misrepresent the contents of a picture often find themselves in court in libel cases. ($15.95, ISBN: 0471146544; John Wiley & Sons or on the WWW at amazon.com)
TWO HELPFUL Stock Photo guide books are now available at reduced price from VIEWPOINT. For $25, you will receive PHOTOMARKETING GUIDEBOOK and PHOTOGRAPHERS PUBLISHING HANDBOOKS postpaid by Priority Mail in the USA or $35 outside USA. Contact: VIEWPOINT, suite 903, 89 Fifth Ave, New York NY 10003. Phone: 1 212 675-5674. Fax: 1 212 243-2308. Email: PLG@viewmedia@aol.com.
BLACK & WHITE LANDSCAPE PHOTOGRAPHY by John Collet and David Collet. Interpretive examples with more than seventy black & white landscape photographs lead you from basic through advanced concepts, including techniques of art, composition, the Zone System and the darkroom. ($29.95; ISBN# 1-58428-004-2) Contact: Amherst Media Inc, PO Box 586, Buffalo NY 14226.
SEARCH ENGINES For The World Wide Web, Second Edition. Search Engines is a Visual QuickStart Guide that uses pictures and concise, straightforward guidelines to show you how to search the Web. ($17.99; ISBN: 0-201-35385-7) Contact: Peachpit Press, 1249 Eighth St, Berkeley CA 94710. Phone: 1 800 283-9444 or 1 510 524-2178. Fax: 1 510 524-2221. Web: www.peachpit.com
2000 PHOTOGRAPHER'S MARKET has helped thousands of freelance and professional photographers get their work in print. Known for its 2000+ current, paying markets for photographs (with complete submission guidelines, contact information, pay rates and response time), the guide also features advice on marketing tactics to improve your photography business, finding buyers for your work, protecting your copyright and other exclusive insider reports. ($24.99 plus $3.50 p/h; 640 pages; ISBN: 0-89879-912-0) Indicate you are a PhotoSource International member and receive 15% discount. Contact: Writer's Digest Books, 1507 Dana Ave, Cincinnati OH 45207. Phone: 1 800 289-0963.
