POTUS Twitter account uses header photo from the wrong inauguration

These days, along with a new US leadership transition, comes the online transition. The White House Flickr account has been scrubbed, changes have been made to the White House website, and social media has had a little bit of a reboot. Including the official @POTUS Twitter account. The Hill, and several other outlets, are reporting […]

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This is the last chance to download your Vines before they’re gone

Launched and subsequently acquired by Twitter in 2012, Vine has been a valuable outlet for many creatives.  The service that let you post your life in six second chunks announced its closure in October, and now it’s finally moving onto the next step in its evolution. Vine will not go away completely, but it will […]

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FTC to crack down on social media celebrity advertising posts

Bloomberg are reporting that the American Federal Trade Commission are cracking down on social media advertising. Users now must be very clear about paid product endorsements. Users are actually required to do this already, but few do. Many advertisers also request that the social media users not mention it. It’s understandable why advertisers wouldn’t want the public to know. They […]

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19 year old girl banned from social media for posting nude photos of another woman

19 year old Courtney Marie Mulkentine from Gympie, Queensland, posted photos of her boyfriend’s ex-girlfriend to Facebook and removed them after Mulkentine received a phone call from the victim, but by then it was too late. After pleading guilty to “using an electronic carriage service to harass or offend”, the Australian teenager has been banned from using social […]

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Vanessa Hudgens Slammed For Posting Viral Tea-Tossing Photo on Instagram without Credit

Last month we shared Michael Davies’ stunning photo of tea being tossed at -40° Celsius, which seemed to have spread online like a wildfire. The photo even reached actress and singer Vanessa Hudgens who decided to share it on her social media pages, but unfortunately the famous artist didn’t bother crediting Michael. Angry comments from […]

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This cheat sheet shows every single profile photo size for every social media platform

Social media platforms seem to change their image sizes pretty much every time you login. And every time that happens, photographers everywhere have to scour the internet searching for the new sizes. You just know that facebook is going to CRASH your photo if you don’t feed it the exact right size. Well, here’s some […]

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Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer slams CBS for asking for free photos

Chances are that in the time it took you to read this sentence, a photographer (or ten) was asked if his photos can be used for free. This happens all the time and has gotten to the point where it doesn’t faze most people, but when a company valued at over $30 billion asks a […]

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Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer slams CBS for asking for free photos

Chances are that in the time it took you to read this sentence, a photographer (or ten) was asked if his photos can be used for free. This happens all the time and has gotten to the point where it doesn’t faze most people, but when a company valued at over $30 billion asks a […]

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Social Media Networks Don’t Give a Flying Fudge-Nugget About Your Copyright!

I have been working on ways to automate some of my social media and blogging activity over the last little while and one of the super useful tools I’ve been using is IFTTT (If This Then That). However, browsing the recipes on IFTTT I have realized how redonkulously easy it is to fully automate the […]

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Putting it out there without giving it away

By Matthew B. Harrison, Esq. Photos & The Law dot com as originally published in issue 219 of TALKERS magazine SPRINGFIELD, MA — On May 16th, at 6:30 am Stefanie Gordon boarded a Delta flight from New York to Palm Beach. Somewhere along the flight, out the window of her airplane seat, she took a […]