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Key words in this issue: Sampling | Changes | Travel | Dingbnats | Sell Photos |
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PhotoAIM, the weekly newsletter from PhotoSource
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ISSN 1530-0511

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Sampling -- It Won't Go Away . . .

The Internet is becoming a free-for-all for music entrepreneurs who creatively "borrow" originals and mix them into their own "originals." Will you find parts of your pictures in a montage of someone else's some day?

Music lovers call it "mash-up" or "bootleg" and it's found on the Internet. It could be a harbinger of what's in store for stock photographers.

"Mash-ups" are "songs" that combine different hit songs without adding any original music. They may represent the first significant new musical genre to be lifted out of the underground, developed, and then spread, mostly via the Web. (Remember "sampling" in the 90's -- Oribital's "Halcyon & On & On"?) The songs typically match the rhythm, melody and underlying spirit of the instrumentals of one song, with the a cappella vocals of another. And the more odd the pairing the better.

MOZART WAS THERE

Classical music lovers know that "sampling" is not new. Mozart, Bach, and Handel all acknowledged existing tunes of the day by using fragments of music from their contemporaries. It wasn't considered infringing, but fits more closely to what might be interpreted today in the Copyright Law as an "authorship" issue.

Technological forces today have encouraged this kind of "borrowing." Cheap computer software, for example, makes it possible for a teenager with no musical knowledge to create professional-sounding productions at home using Internet peer-to-peer services, such as Napster, KaZaa, Audiogalaxy, Spinfrenzy.com and Jungkemonkey.com, which provide a quick way to gather and share music.

Naturally, the music industry is concerned about this, because in most cases the sound tracks are being used without permission. Does file sharing pose a threat to income? Some studies have shown that it does not. Curiously, if sampling were entirely illegal, groups such as Puff Daddy, Missy Elliot, Steps, and other top 40 groups would not have been able to come forth and make money for the major record label companies that now decry sampling. In the world of art, postmodernist Andy Warhol would have found his hands tied in legal battles, thanks to his Campbell Soup depiction and certain other paintings.

AND SO WAS SHAKESPEARE

How does this apply to your stock photos on the web? Should you remove them immediately to prevent someone from using part of your picture as a sample, and then hiding under the protection of the Copyright Law ("authorship")? That is up to you. But sampling is not going to go away. In fact, since Shakespeare's time, and even earlier, "borrowing" from other artists to expand or 'improve' a work of art has been commonplace.

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HOLT RINEHART AND WINSTON (10801-3 n Mopac Expy, Austin, TX 78759) Contact person Elisabeth McCoy, Assistant Photo Researcher. Former phone and fax: 1 512 314 6526, 1 512 314-6590; current phone and fax: 1 512 721-7152, 1 512 721-7501.

BURDA MEDIA FOCUS-MONEY (1270 6<sup>th</sup> Ave of the Americas Ste 2601, New York, NY 10020) Contact person Ariane Dutzi, Photo Editor. Former e-mail: money@burdamedia.com ; current e-mail: focuspicture@burdamedia.com .

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS (198 Madison Ave, New York, NY 10016) Contact person Andrea Suffredini, Art Buyer. Former e-mail: ans@oup-usa.org ; current e-mail: SuffrediniA@oup-usa.org .

TERI STRATFORD, Freelance Photo Researcher. Former e-mail: tstrat@wpe.com ; current e-mail: tstrat@citlink.net .

SUZANNE BAILEY, (2 Catamaran St Ste #1, Marina del Rey, CA 90292) Freelance Photo Editor. Former e-mail: suzannebaileyart@aol.com ; current e-mail: SuzanneLBailey@aol.com .

BOARD FOR MEDIA MINIESTRIES, former contact, company name, address, phone and fax: Glen Pierce, Editor, BOARD FOR MEDIA MINIESTRIES, PO Box 166, Nappanee, NI 46550, 1 219 773-3164, 1 219 773-5934; current contact, company name, address, phone and fax: Ron Ross, Editor, VISITOR MAGAZINE, PO Box A, Grantham, PA 17027, 1 717 697-2634, 1 717 697-7714.

SPIKER COMMUNICATIONS (229 E Main St, Missoula, MT 59802) former contact and e-mail: Jerry May, jmay@spikercomm.com ; current contact and e-mail: Mark Hriciga, Creative Director, mhriciga@spikercomm.com .

HONOLULU MAGAZINE, former company name, address, phone and fax: HONOLULU MAGAZINE, 36 Merchant St, Honolulu, HI 96813, 1 808 524-7400, 1 808 531-2306; current company name, address, phone and fax: PACIFICBASIN COMMUNICATIONS, 1000 Bishop St Ste 405, Honolulu, HI 96813, 1 808 537-9500, 1 808 537-6455.

MELINDA ALEXANDER, Freelance Photo Editor, former address and e-mail: 1001 S Meadows Pkwy #1117, Reno, NV 89511, den49ers@aol.com ; current address and e-mail: 12725 Thomas Creek Rd, Reno, NV 89511, den49ers@aies.net .

STONE CREEK PUBLICATIONS (460 Shire Road, Milford, NJ 08848) contact person John Gattuso, Editor. Former e-mail: screek@ptdprolog.net ; current e-mail: screek@ptd.net .

AVALON TRAVEL PUBLISHING, former address: 5855 Beaudry St, Emeryville, CA 94608; current address: 1400 65<sup>th</sup> St Ste 250, Emeryville, CA 94608.

BOATING WORLD MAGAZINE (2100 Powers Ferry Rd Ste 300, Atlanta, GA 30339) former contact and e-mail: Mary Campisi, Art Director, mcampisi@billian.com; current contact and e-mail: Julie Baker, Art Director, jbaker@billian.com .

"It Doesn't Work anymore!"

On a recent British Guild of Travel Writers trip to Manchester, England to see the brand new facilities for the 2002 Commonwealth Games in July, the biggest international sporting event in the UK since the 1948 Olympic Games, one of my colleagues proudly showed me her digital camera, a Nikon 995. She has been very pleased with the results and ease of use and asked when I was going digital.

We got to the magnificent new stadium, which is nearing completion, and I left the writers listening to the PR person and got busy finding interesting angles to shoot. Suddenly my colleague appeared holding up her Nikon with a disconcerted look on her face, "It doesn't work anymore, what can I do?" she said.

The camera was dead, so I first told her to switch it on and off a few times, it could be a dirty switch, but this was to no avail. My next suggestion was to change the battery, so she did this after I cleaned the contacts, which were dirty, but it still wouldn't come alive. So my last resort was something that often works with electronic equipment when all else fails, I told her to give it a good thump. She looked aghast then tapped the camera gently, so I took hold of it and gave the reluctant machine a solid whack. It sprang to life and she was able to take pictures again.

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Estimated Taxes

Q. I started providing stock photos for a local non-profit organization. I billed the organization by the hour and earned $2500 total. They paid me directly by check. Regarding taxes on this, how do I pay it? Can I wait and pay all my income and self-employment taxes at once, each year, through a Schedule C and Schedule SE? Or do I need to make estimated quarterly payments?

A. Yes, you are liable for paying taxes yourself and may have to make quarterly estimated payments, instead of waiting until April 15<sup>th</sup>. Once you figure out your expenses for your work, and subtract the expenses from the income, the profit shown on Schedule C counts as reportable income. One of the advantages of being self-employed is that you can deduct many expenses incurred for business reasons. This would include depreciation on your computer, home office expense, photo supplies, any direct expenses (stationery, printing, envelopes, travel, automobile, etc.) related to your stock photography business. You also fill out Schedule SE for the Self-Employment taxes on the next profit. To make quarterly payments, fill out a form 1040-Est which you can download from > www.irs.gov < . In addition to the income tax, the self-employment tax (which is FICA tax) is 15.30% of your net profit. But you get a deduction for half the self-employment taxes on page 1 of Form 1040.

Julian Block, a former IRS agent and tax attorney, is the author of "Julian Block's Tax Avoidance Secrets" ($29.95 p&h included, 560 pgs. Mention you are a PhotoStockNotes subscriber and receive the book for $19.95. Julian Block, 3 Washington Sq, Larchmont NY 10538-2032). For Julian's tax saving and tax planning reports, go to http://www.photosourcefolio.com/TaxReports.htm. Julian can be reached at julianblock@yahoo.com. Do you have any tax problems? You can discuss them with Julian Block through www.KEEN.com

"Fammin'" -Getting Invited Part 2

The best way to get invited on a FAMiliarization Tour is to publish your photos and stories so frequently that your name automatically comes up when P.R. people are deciding who gets an invitation to Ireland or Japan or on that culinary tour of the Laurentians.

But you needn't mope and champ at the bit until that happy day rolls around. Let's say you've published half a dozen photos that could, without too much of a stretch, be construed as travel pictures. And let's say you've published three or four articles in local papers on a particular place, a restaurant, an interesting event or fair or industry, a historical area, etc. etc.

And let's say you want to go to New Orleans. Not for Mardi Gras, when everyone else in the world goes there, but for, say, the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival.

Call the New Orleans Convention & Visitors Bureau. Ask them for info on the town and the festival. Have them send you a press kit. Once you've studied it, query some newspapers and regional magazines for assignments on the event. Then, assignments in hand, call the CVB back, tell 'em what you've got, and ask, "Are you running any fam tours around that time?"

If they say, "Why, yes, and we'd love to have you join us," start packing. If they say, "No, but we'd like to bring you down on your own," start packing.

If they just say "No," keep publishing your stuff. Next time they'll say, "Yes, yes, oh God, yes!"

And next time, we'll tell you how to act when you're aboard the fam train.

Effin & Jules Older run travel writing and photography workshops at Vermont resorts. They're at PO Box 163, Albany, VT 05820; 802 755-6774, julvt@together.net

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"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one."
-Albert Einstein

FREE Dingbats. This is a good resource for freeware dingbat fonts. Dingbat Categories: animals, business, floral, funky, machines, outer space, people and more.
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Portrait photographer Yousuf Karsh dead at 93. Karsh famous for shots of Churchill, Hemingway and other notables.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/SHOWBIZ/News/07/14/obit.karsh.ap/index.html

Microsoft tries to steal Macworld thunder - Microsoft on Monday launched the first of several pre-emptive strikes against Apple Computer's Macworld trade show by making announcements about new technologies far ahead of their delivery to market.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-943859.html

Future fuzzy for Adobe camera software - Software publisher Adobe Systems on Monday announced a new version of Photoshop Elements, but analysts warn the image-editing software may not be simple or cheap enough for the average digital camera user.
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-943691.html

Gloom Illustrated: Those Stock Pictures of a Bear Market - There's one thing to love whenever the market tanks: We get a fresh new batch of photos of traders on the stock exchange floor, looking wrung out, looking glum!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9750-2002Jul15.html

Creatives Don't Want to Become Printers - 18% of design and production firms see designing large-format graphics and posters as a sales opportunity-but only 10% see an opportunity in actually printing them.
http://www.trendwatchgraphicarts.com/fastfacts/fast180.html

Old guard, new guard - British editors and publishers revamp America's old publications with flashy graphics and shorter articles.
http://www.sunspot.net/entertainment/news/bal-artslife-news-magazines16.story?coll=bal%2Dentertainment%2Dheadlines

With Nikon cameras hanging from his shoulders and dangling from his neck, Ichinose dodged hails of bullets and bloodshed to cover the conflicts that raged through the former French colony of Indochina in the 1970s
http://www.asahi.com/english/culture/K2002062000377.html

Photographic works by Yasumasa Morimura and Mariko Mori fetched about $31,000 and $50,000, respectively, while a photograph by Hiroshi Sugimoto went for about $42,000- prices on a par with those of works by celebrated Western artists.
http://www.asahi.com/english/weekend/K2002063000119.html

Aniston, 33, claimed a photographer - described in her lawsuit as a "stalkerazzi" - scaled a neighbor's wall and, using a telephoto lens, snapped photos of her "reclining topless in her back yard, wearing only her panties." The pictures were then sold to the magazines. Aniston has received judgments and settled claims with other U.S. and European magazines that published the photo, but still has a lawsuit pending against the photographer who allegedly took the photo.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020702/ap_wo_en_po/us_people_jennifer_aniston _2

Turning 100, Leni Riefenstahl Speaks. She survived a dramatic helicopter crash in Sudan in Africa where she was photographing Nuba tribespeople.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020716/lf_nm/germany_riefenstahl_dc_1

D.C. Museum Examines Spying History use of photography-
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020715/ap_on_go_ot/spy_museum_1

Kodak Raises 2nd-Quarter Profit Estimate, Citing Restructuring Benefits;
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/dowjones/20020711/bs_dowjones/kodak_raises_2nd_quarter_profit_estimate__citing_restructuring_benefits

Artist Andy Warhol to be commemorated on new postage stamp;Warhol's career also included ventures in design, photography, film, television, writing and publishing.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020710/ap_wo_en_po/us_artist_stamp_2

Behind a Century of Photos, Was There a Jewish Eye?
http://college4.nytimes.com/guests/articles/2002/07/07/929910.xml

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