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Enough Monkey Business! Stock Artists Alliance Says "Stop It" To The Editorial Photographers UK

... or was it the other way round?

Either way, after the verbal attacks of Editorial Photographers UK in "The Turkeys Vote For Christmas" as well as in "The 2006 EPUK Golden Sureshot Awards" on the decision of the Stock Artists Alliance to expand the mission of the association, Betsy Reid, SAA´s Executive Director, has written a serious response to explain her view:

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QuickLinks For 2006-12-31

• Review of this year´s biggest stock house acquisition:
  Jerry Kennelly, the founder of digital imaging company Stockbyte, never envisaged that his €127,000 initial investment in the company would make him a millionaire a hundred times over ...  Mr Kennelly has been low profile since the sale, although he is a backer of a new radio station in the South West of Ireland.
  Irish independent in Picture-perfect year for Stockbyte's Kennelly.
  Tags: Jerry Kennelly Stockbyte

Sion Touhig On Copyright, Photographers´ Race To The Bottom, Media Corporations And Audience Stolen Content

Published on The Register´s website yesterday, photojournalist Sion Touhig (1999 News Photographer of the Year and featured in Life/Time Magazine's "Pictures of the Year" for four years) is out with a three-page article on "How the anti-copyright lobby makes big business richer", followed later by a discussion on his blog.

Sion´s basic reasoning is that:

• Citizen Journalism - one trend which would appear to suggest more "democracy" in the media - but actually doesn't - is a "smokescreen for grabbing content" (Sion´s blog) and "should be more accurately termed Audience Stolen Content"
• "Copyright is already dead"
• "Weakening investigative journalism has far more profound implications for democracy" (quoting the NY Review of Books)

QuickLinks For 2006-12-30

• Digital Imaging Industry Predictions for 2007:
  Matt Kloskowski (of PhotoshopTV and Killer Tips fame) has posted a very interesting list of predictions for 2007, all of which involve the digital imaging industry. Here are some of his main points:
  • Digital Photography Workflow Applications Will Flourish
  • Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Will Hit Version 1.0
  • Photoshop Podcasts Will Continue To Multiply
  • Printing Will Become An Even Hotter Topic
  • Microsoft Will Enter The Digital Imaging Game
  Jennifer Apple, pointing to "Predictions for 2007".
  Tag: 2007 predictions

QuickLinks For 2006-12-29

• Thursday's Tech Winners & Losers:
  Jupitermedia (JUPM - commentary - Cramer's Take - Rating) rose some 6% Thursday on news the online media and technology company bought JustTechJobs.com, an online tech job site, for undisclosed terms. Shares were up 22 cents, or 2.9%, at $7.93 in recent trading.
  TheStreet.com.
  Actually JUPM is at $8.03, up $0.32 or 4.15%, and that´s after all $2.05 higher than on Nov. 09 after Jupiter´s last conference call ($5.98).
  Tag: Jupitermedia

EPUK Awards For The 12 Top 2006 Flops

They just can´t stop themselves. While others announce partly wrong predictions for the year 2007, EPUK, the collective of Editorial Photographers in the UK and Ireland, is just out with a fresh version of The 2006 EPUK Golden Sureshot Awards, also written with all the sarcasm and irony like in the very recent article "The Turkeys Vote For Christmas", which makes the piece once again fun to read.

QuickLinks For 2006-12-28

• Newspapers are Dead. Long Live Newspaper Photojournalism.
  Sion Touhig on "we have to get away from this incredibly deeply entrenched (and increasingly redundant) idea that a photojournalist is someone who produces 'photo-essays' for newspapers and magazines".
  Tags: Photojournalism Newspaper

The Year In Review: Most Charming, Most Weird Image Collection Of 2006

As the year is running out, it´s time to Iean back. I was asked to write about Tops and Flops 2006 in the editorial and stock photo industry, covering software providers, micropayment sites, the big stockhouses, unknown facts and more or less glorious sacrifices on the altar of the picture trading industry.

Not like earlier this year in The 23 Best, But Still Unwritten Stock Photo Industry Headlines For 2006 with irony and sympathy, but rather with facts and numbers. However, after the surprising feedback to the unwritten headlines the only person who would really benefit from this in terms of money would be my attorney, so I´ll skip this one for now.

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QuickLinks For 2006-12-25

• Christmas reading: Get a Blog, Marketing Success for Photographers in the Blogosphere:
  Tired of the Christmas terror? Joe Pobereskin points to ASMP´s online version of "the Year End 2006 issue of the ASMP Bulletin, in which photographer and ASMP contributing writer Ethan Salwen talked with members who have embraced blogs to increase their business and expand their creative outlets. Salwen provides additional insight through expanded Q&A’s with eight member bloggers", like Wayne Wallace, Andy Batt and Chase Jarvis.
  ASMP.
  Tag: Blogging photographers

More Christmas Riots: Editorial Photographers UK Grill The Stock Artists Alliance

Does anyone remember The International Stock Imagery Association (ISIA), founded little over a year ago and firstly mentioned here, with a lot of sympathy then?

Does anyone recall the destiny of this association?

Lost focus. Got grilled.