Photography and Copyrights

Photographers, like writers and others whose work spans the divide between the creative and the practical, are often in need of services that help them to find work. Photographers would in general prefer to spend their time taking photographs and leave the business or rounding up business to others, which makes them an ideal audience for the newly founded company of BestEye Online, which brings together freelance photographers in an online venue and provides a referral and search service for publishers who want to engage a photographer. The company also provides a virtual community for its photographers, something that for freelance workers is almost as important as economic support.

While the overall idea for the company is indeed a sound one, there are some potential problems. Photographers are right to be wary of having their works included on the website because of the ease of downloading images: They are likely to worry that publishers will simply download images for free. This is a violation of copyright law, but some publishers will not care about this, especially in countries such as China where there is widespread abuse (in all media) of copyright protections granted in the West and where the government does not seem particularly interested in intervening on the side of Western companies or individuals (http://bailiwick.lib.uiowa.edu/webbuilder/copyright.html).

This is a legitimate concern on the part of artists in today's world, and especially of tho

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eap as it is - and absolutely helpful in our publishing business in which we work with lots of pictures of freelance employees. I even recommend this programme for private use also (http://download.com.com/3302-2204-10251413.html). Other programs work in a similar way, with some professional photographers preferring PhotoPleasure 1.6. For ease of running the site, one photo-marking software should be selected and all photographers posting their work should be required to use it so that the business owner is protected against any photographer who fails to mark his or her works, has them stolen, and then later tries to sue the company. Aside from the potential copyright issues involved (which should be addressed by the above technical fix), there are also more basic problems of competition. Most professional photographers already have their own websites and are therefore already marketing their own wares. They might feel that a service like BestEye dilutes their own branding work. This disadvantage may be compensated for in their minds by the fact that they will benefit from the virtual community that the company is offering. Question Two The International Coalition of Religious Singers has several excellent ideas. However, a

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