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Lens Shark Photography Podcast

Ep. 15: What Would You Do If A Terrorist Group Repurposed Your Images? - and more

Lens Shark Photography Podcast

Sharky James

Visual Arts, Arts

4.41.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2015

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Here's episode 15 of the PetaPixel Photography Podcast. You can also download the MP3 directly and subscribe via iTunes or RSS!

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In This Episode

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Yannick Verhoeven of Parallax Pictures in The Netherlands opens the show.

Terrorist group ISIS repurposes a photographer's work for its propaganda campaign. (#)

Lensbaby announces its new Composer Pro II with Edge 50 Optic (#)

Singer, actress and model Zendaya calls out a magazine for manipulating her image. (#)

Actress Kate Winslet talks about the "no retouching" clause in her modeling contract for L'Oréal. (#)

Nikon releases a camera...in the form of a Nanoblock Nikon F. (#)

PocketWizard announces its Plus IV transceiver for off-camera flash triggering. (#)

Janet Jackson's team goes after Instagram users for posting photos and videos. (#)

Hard drive giant Western Digital buys memory card maker SanDisk. (#)

An Israeli solider is stabbed by a Palestinian man posing as a photojournalist. (#)

FujiFilm announces its 35mm f/2 and a 1.4x teleconverter. (#)

Canon adds a red stripe to the imagePROGRAF PRO-1000 professional fine art printer. (#)

Google Photos reaches 100 million active users in crazy little time. (#)

Yannick in The Netherlands asks how to better manage his images in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom. I tell him how.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Janik proven from Barlex Pictures in the Netherlands.

0:03.7

You're listening to the Petapixil Photography Podcast with your host, Sharky James.

0:07.8

Welcome to the Petapixil Photography Podcast 15. What would you do if a terrorist group repurposed your images?

0:17.0

In this episode, ISIS misappropriates a photographer's important work for its propaganda

0:26.8

campaign. Kate Winslet and Zendiah stand up to unnecessary retouching. Pocket Wizard

0:32.4

announces a new product, Nikon releases a toy,

0:36.1

Cannon adds the red stripe to a printer, and Janet Jackson is added again.

0:41.2

All that and more in episode 15 of the Petapixil Photography Podcast.

0:49.2

Thank you so much, Yannick for opening the show and we'll have your question later in this episode and I'd like to thank you all for joining us here in episode 15 of the Petapixil photography podcast we appreciate you all so much and thank you for subscribing, rating, and reviewing us in iTunes or wherever else you listen to us.

1:08.0

Okay, with that, I'm your host Sharky James, let's hit it.

1:12.0

Copyright infringement isn't. Shaki James, let's hit it.

1:13.0

Copyright infringement isn't at all the worst thing that ISIS has done.

1:18.0

But we're a photography podcast, so we're going to talk a little bit about this.

1:22.0

Usually if someone steals your photos,

1:24.4

there are methods by which you can get them removed. For instance, here in the United States,

1:28.6

you can send a DMCA takedown notice and their host has to remove it or else.

1:33.3

The DMCA being the Digital Millennium Copyright Act by the way.

1:37.2

But when a UN designated terrorist organization steals your photos, good luck with that.

1:42.4

I mean, what are you supposed to do?

1:43.7

Known for his photos involving children's toys, photographer Brian McCarty was

1:48.6

surprised as you might imagine to find that the group repurposed one of his photos for their propaganda efforts.

1:55.0

I mean imagine how that would feel if you found that out.

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