Unhappy U.S. Photogs at TSI

By Jim Pickerell | 1505 Words | Posted 7/8/1997 | Comments
Major U.S. photographers represented by Tony Stone Images are unhappy with the editing of latest TSI catalog, ''Interpretations.''

United Kingdom Pricing

By Jim Pickerell | 706 Words | Posted 7/8/1997 | Comments
Usages are priced much lower in the United Kingdom than in the U.S. or other major European Markets. Details in latest NSPP.

TIB Acquires Archives

By Jim Pickerell | 1051 Words | Posted 7/8/1997 | Comments
The Image Bank has acquired Archives giving them a strong historical division. They are rumored to be negotiating to purchase Picture Network International.

Visual Comm. Group Buys FPG

By Jim Pickerell | 898 Words | Posted 7/8/1997 | Comments
VCG of London becomes the worlds largest supplier of stock photography with the acquisition of FPG. Overall control of the industry makes another move toward Europe.

Royalty Free at Comstock

By Jim Pickerell | 1679 Words | Posted 7/8/1997 | Comments
Comstock is producing ''royalty free'' discs. Five are our and 30 more will be released by September.

National Geographic Update

By Jim Pickerell | 1115 Words | Posted 7/8/1997 | Comments
National Geographic takes hard line and refuses to provide any compensation to freelance photographers for use of their work on new CD-ROM project. Photographers and agents up in arms.

Use Without Permission

By Jim Pickerell | 239 Words | Posted 5/7/1997 | Comments
It is illegal to photocopy sections of books for sale to students. U.S. Supreme Court upholds 6th Circuit Court decision in Michigan.

The Spider Crawls

By Jim Pickerell | 141 Words | Posted 5/7/1997 | Comments
Digimarc announces a tool that can be used in conjunction with their Digimarc watermarking software to help a photographer track usage of their images on the World Wide Web.

Visual Creators Index

By Jim Pickerell | 1177 Words | Posted 5/7/1997 | Comments
A system of unique identifiers that can be used to watermark images is developed by the Association of Photographers in the UK.

Geographic On Disk

By Jim Pickerell | 1148 Words | Posted 5/7/1997 | Comments
National Geographic will release discs showing every article and picture that has appeared in the magazine in over 100 years.

About Michael Masterson

Michael Masterson has a broad range of experience in marketing, business development, strategic planning, contact negotiations and recruiting in the photography, graphic design and publishing industries. In addition to his long experience at the Workbook and Workbookstock, Masterson owned and was creative director of his own graphic design firm for several years.

Masterson has been a speaker or panelist at industry events such as Seybold, PhotoPlus Expo, Visual Connections and the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) national conference. He is currently the national president of the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP). He also serves on the board of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council in his Los Angeles community. He chaired the marketing committee for the Los Angeles Conservancy, a historic preservation advocacy group, for many years.

He currently heads Masterson Consulting, working on projects ranging from business development for creative companies and sourcing talent for them to promoting and marketing industry events as well as providing resume and professional profile services for job-seekers. He can be reached at zvpunryqznfgrefba@tznvy.pbz.