Corbis' Response to APA Press Release

In response to APA’s press release on the recent ruling on Corbis’ use of compilation copyright registrations, Corbis sent this email to ceo@apanational.com on May 11.  APA is providing this as information only with no bias, pro or con.

Hi APA,

hope you’re doing fine!

We want to provide information about a legal ruling last week in New [...]

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APA Success Teams

What is a Success Team?

A Success Team is an Accountability Team for APA Photographer members, and Emerging Photographer members. Its mission is to help each member of the team identify and clarify his or her own professional goals for success and accomplish them through encouragement, feedback, support and mutual accountability.  Success Teams stimulate dialogue among [...]

US SENATE PASSES THE ORPHAN WORKS BILL

On September 27, 2008 the US Senate in a hotlining session passed the controversial Orphan Works bill effecting thousands of photographers, artists and authors.  If you are concerned about the future of our industry, please take the 2 minutes needed to voice you opinion to your House of Representative Member.

Now that the US Senate has [...]

They all Escaped

Martin Trailer, President APA. ©Paul Bowers

By Martin Trailer

In the days of film, the 1990’s;

I was shooting an ad for a pesticide company that makes a bio friendly pesticide to kill off cotton weevils as I recall.

The shots were a progression of what the little critters would do to a crop by zeroing in [...]

APA Elects New National Officers Martin Trailer, as National President

MARTIN TRAILER

APA National President

APA Elects New National Officers

Martin Trailer, Takes Helm as National President

Martin Trailer has been making photos since childhood, starting at a newspaper before he could legally drive. Transitioning from the newspaper business as a [...]