For every award winning photo that a photographer takes, there are hundreds
of other photos of that exact event, the minutes leading up to the event, and
the minutes immediately after the event. A photographer will shoot a roll of
film, and the remaining photos, deemed "not quite so good," are put away forever
in what photo houses and newspapers call the "morgue." These are the
"second-best" images, and the images that did not quite make the light of day
because, although they were good, they were not quite good enough.
Perhaps, instead of getting Corbis's best shots, we should try to liberate
the second-best ones--the ones in the morgue that aren't quite as famous but
could serve our ends as well.
Danny
In a message dated 10/15/2006 3:48:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
wgfinley@dynascope.com writes:
Go to
apimages.com and you will see a few hundred images we can't
produce. They are timeless and unique just like the two photos
I
worked with them to get permissions on -- Raising the Flag on
Iwo
Jima and Trang Bang.
Same thing with CORBIS, go to their
website, type in a name and start
watching all the photos that come
up. Could we get some of these as
press publicity
photos? Probably, asserting fair use. How about
having
an agreement in place with CORBIS about our use of them so
there is
never a question about the legitimacy of the use of an image?
We should
never stop looking for the free sources of images that we
can
obtain. But there are a whole slew of historical photographs
owned by these media houses we do not have access to and that's what
I was getting at. I know, because I've deleted them before.
The
press is everywhere and over decades has acquired scores of
important
images, I'd like to use them, LEGALLY while protecting the
rights of
their creators. A big pile of money would help us do
that.
--Guy
On Oct 15, 2006, at 1:41 PM, geni
wrote:
> On 10/15/06, W. Guy Finley <wgfinley@dynascope.com>
wrote:
>> Ahhh, i'm remembering why I'm on hiatus. Dream a
little........so
>> someone can come and piss on
it.
>>
>
> If you don't identify problems you can't
improve things. What do AP
> have that we don't and have no reasonable
way of getting?
>
> Photos of newsworthy events where there was no
US miltitry presence.
> Now aside from AP and simular who has
these photos?
>
> Buying up big photo archives has some attactions
but it is likely we
> would waste a lot of money on stuff we could have
produced anyway.
>
>
>
> --
> geni
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