Professional Photographer's Association as out of touch as MPAA and RIAA

http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2012/01/27/the-foolish-ppa-is-pro-pipa-and-sopa/

by yangez • 14 years ago

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jxcole• 14 years ago

I've always been a fan of stuckincustoms. His collection of HDR photography is incredible. I recommend everyone to check it out.

jack-r-abbit• 14 years ago

Holy Over-sized Page Header, Batman! 850px... that is ridiculous.

hornbaker• 14 years ago

Agreed. I'm a huge fan of his work, but every time I visit his site I cringe at that header. Maybe he has a wall-sized monitor and he doesn't notice the problem.

kstenerud• 14 years ago

PPA, MPAA, and RIAA are the modern equivalent of guilds. They were once useful for protecting the little guy, then evolved into a protection racket.

ben_straub• 14 years ago

I was just at a PPA conference (Imaging USA in New Orleans), and every session started with a PPA rep saying "No photography. All slides are protected by copyright." I don't even know where to begin.

sukuriant• 14 years ago

You might steal their 1024x768 representation of a photograph with some of the worst color accuracy possible (because it's a projector) while still looking acceptable! And, with some up-scaling, might even be useful as a laptop's wallpaper. Well, as long as you can get rid of the distortions caused by your angle (maybe you used a tilt-shift lens?), and all the imperfections from the projection surface, fix all the color issues that came from the poor representation, and somehow explain why you needed a tripod in the back of the room. Oh noes!

I jest, but they probably put that their as a CYA :/. Also, technically, all of their slides and images are protected by copyright. They did, after all, create them.

[edit: clarifying, improving grammar]

codex• 14 years ago

"He said, she said."

Look, some people just have different agendas than you do. It doesn't mean they're out of touch--just out of touch with your own agenda, the one you don't think you have, but do.

Professional Photographer's Association as out of touch as MPAA and RIAA

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