London Freelance Branch Secretary Mike Holderness will give a visual presentation offering tips on how to use the internet to locate images which have been used without permission and identify who is culpable for the bill. Another speaker on the same subject TBA.
Any motions to the branch should be sent to the branch secretary prior to the meeting.
Branch Meeting, Copyright, Infringement, Newsletter
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29th June, 6pm
Headland House
This months Branch meeting will feature a panel discussion on Convergence, with photographer Edmond Terakopian and film editor Simon Ruben. Clients are always asking us to do more; whether it be video, audio, text or all three on top of photography. We’ll be discussing how to adapt to clients growing needs for content with shrinking budgets. Should photographers be doing the jobs of reporters and film-makers at all? What are the pitfalls of moving into different areas? Come along and join the discussion.
Any motions to the branch should be sent to the branch secretary prior to the meeting.
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Next weeks branch meeting will feature a panel of branch photographers who covered the election discussing how the media were manipulated, working without accreditation and paying for access.
Photographers Stephen Simpson and Graeme Robertson will be talking about their experiences.
We will be running a slideshow of election coverage so send your best pictures from the campaign trail as JPEGs, 1024px on the longest side in the sRGB colour space to editor@londonphotographers.org. Any motions to the branch should be sent to the branch secretary prior to the meeting.
Branch Meeting, General Election, Newsletter, Press Freedom
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At last nights branch meeting there was a panel discussion on the Future of Copyright. Branch Membership Secretary Guy Smallman spoke about his experience using union lawyers to recover money from copyright infringers. Freelance organiser John Toner spoke about other members the union had helped reclaim money from copyright infringers. He also spoke about the setting up of a new small claims court for copyright infringement that the union has lobbied for. Andrew Wiard discussed the future of copyright law and what changes the union should lobby a new government for. You can listen to the full audio from the discussion here.
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Our next meeting will be on the future of copyright with Andrew Wiard, Guy Smallman and NUJ freelance organiser John Toner. The panel will be discussing current negotiations with the Guardian, the Bauer Media dispute and future strategies for negotiating changes to copyright law. The meeting will be next Tuesday 27th of April at 6pm in Headland House. Any motions to the branch should be sent to the branch secretary prior to the meeting.
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30th March, 6pm. 308 Gray’s Inn Road
This months branch meeting will feature an illustrated talk by photographer Stuart Freedman ‘Trying to tell the story? Ethics & photojournalism‘
We will also be discussing the Digital Economy Bill, threats to journalists from the EDL/BNP and proposed rate cuts at Guardian News & Media.
At last months meeting we hosted a panel discussion on the future for photography, the full audio from the discussion is also online.
Any motions to the branch should be sent to the Branch secretary prior to the meeting.
Branch Meeting, Ethics, Photojournalism, Stuart Freedman
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Photographers’ met at the first LPB branch meeting earlier this week to begin organising the fightback over rates and the right to take photographs.
The meeting opened with a report from NUJ General Secretary Jeremy Dear on the union’s lobbying and representations to the government on the Digital Economy Bill which is currently making it’s way through Parliament. Dear said that the union does support the bill, but not in it’s current form, especially with regard to orphan works. Dear also said he would be meeting with representatives from other trade unions the next day to discuss how it would effect their members.
Discussion was opened to the floor as to what the branch should do collectively to lobby government over the bill, specifically s42 of the bill which allows for orphan works. There were contributions from the floor that the union should be lobbying for the complete removal of s42 from the bill.
It was agreed that members should write to their MPs using the template letter from Copyright Action to keep the pressure on MPs in the final stages of the bills passage through Parliament.
The meeting then moved on to the panel discussion on the Future for Photography, which you can listen to in it’s entirety.
After the discussion the remainder of branch business was dealt with, including reports from the committee, which will be available in full in the minutes (Registration required).
There were some changes to the branch committee with members without portfolio Jason Parkinson and Phillip Wolmuth taking up the Welfare Officer and Learning Representative positions respectively. Additionally the roles of ‘Legal Representative’ and ‘Web Editor’ were created with the positions being taken by Secretary Marc Vallée and Treasurer Jonathan Warren. New student member Franc David said that he would like to join the committee and it was agreed that he would be co-opted onto the committee without position. The branch committee page has been updated with all the new members and their positions.
Jason, Phillip and Marc all indicated that they would like to job share the new positions with others, if you are interested in helping out with the Welfare Officer, Learning rep or Legal rep positions get in touch. The Equality Officer position also remains vacant.
The full minutes from the meeting will be available to branch members online shortly, to view the minutes you must first register and your branch membership be confirmed.
Branch Meeting, Business, Digital Economy Bill, LPB, Photography
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6pm, 23rd February at Headland House
The London Photographers’ Branch invites you to a panel debate Chaired by Jess Hurd with Martin Argles, Kelvin Bruce and John Harris.
LPB’s first meeting will be an open and frank debate about the state of the industry and a discussion about what we can gain from working collectively as photographers. Leading our discussion panel we are pleased to have:
Branch business will be conducted as normal after the panel discussion. Any substantial motion being put to the Branch should be sent to the Branch secretary prior to the meeting.
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