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St. Louis for birthday and pictures

I was in St. Louis this past weekend for the Illinois Press Photographers Association annual conference. It also happened to be my birthday last week. It was a very happy combination.

Posted 27 April 2010 † Beck Diefenbach § Personal ‡ Comments (4) °

Caught red-handed!

I have never caught someone stealing one of my photos in person. Whenever it has happened, it has been some Web site taking sports photos (usually NIU football) from this blog. Sports blog sites normally don’t have any art budget and don’t subscribe to the AP, so they take what they want. High schoola also [...]

Posted 17 March 2010 † Beck Diefenbach § Ethics § Sports ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , , , , ,

NPPA highlights my Orphan Works Bill analysis

Today the National Press Photographers Association referred to my analysis of the Orphan Works Bill on their Web site, NPPA.org. Last week I wrote on the St. Louis Post Dispatch photo blog, Pictures, about the inherent dangers of the Orphan Works Bill to creative people and the ownership of their work.
Post on NPPA.org
My Orphan Works [...]

Posted 07 October 2008 † Beck Diefenbach § Ethics ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , ,

When photogs interview

I interviewed at two newspapers on Wednesday and Thursday. I have interviewed for internships before but these were the first journalism jobs I ever interviewed for and I have some suggestions to all the photogs out there who are at the same stage in their career as I am:
1) Wear a tie

Posted 03 October 2008 † Beck Diefenbach § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Orphan Works Bill Part 2 – the search for more money

Two days ago I lightly blogged about the new bill which recently passed the Senate called the Orphan Works Bill. This piece of legislation relaxes the rules against copyright infringement, threatening the creative industry as a whole.

Posted 01 October 2008 † Beck Diefenbach § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,