THE RIDICULOUS PPA IS PRO-PIPA AS WELL AS SOPA

What’s Going On with The Professional Photographers of America?

I just now perceived the a rsther than rediculous email from the PPA that you will post below.

It’s fundamentally a garland of horse-poop.  Did you know the PPA is actively spending income to run Congress for these and bills of this inlet in the future?

Consider these condescending bits from their statement:

“So when a behemoth corporate money-maker like Google attempts to mount on the backs of photographers to enlarge the profits, we as your organisation take exception.”

“Each of us contingency work to be more cordial about the genuine issues, and inspire our friends and neighbors not to be led erroneous by the fear-mongering of Internet bullies.”

Infuriating!  How does the PPA get off observant something so incendiary and foolish?

This print has been used though my accede tens of thousands of times. My video tutorials have been pirated tens of thousands of times. It hasn't harm my commercial operation — it has finished quite the contrary.

Look at me, PPA.  Your organisation of pencil-pushing middlemen haven’t finished anything for me. Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and hundreds more companies have been assisting move in the unavoidable destiny of media.  I share all plainly and openly through Creative Commons Noncommercial.  This technique has enabled StuckInCustoms.com to grow to a point where we are quite essential and about a dozen employees. Having these bills upheld a long time ago would have harm my commercial operation rsther than than helped it.

Creating new, innovative commercial operation models around the internet is the destiny (and present, you say).

Anyway, here is the email:

SOPA and PIPA – don’t be fooled

Dear Photographer,

We know that many of you have been following the developments with the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and the Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA). There has been some difficulty over the due legislation, which honestly is the vigilant of the bills’ opponents. We longed for to take a impulse to scold some of the bad information, and to let you know where we stand.

We were unhappy by some of the clumsy strategy used by opponents of the bills. The design of those strategy was patently to emanate fright and hysteria, while at the same time swelling fake report about what the bills would essentially accomplish. We want you to know the following:

Both pieces of legislation (SOPA in the Senate and PIPA in the House) targeted off-shore pirating of functions constructed in the U.S.
We do not feel that the measures were perfect—no legislation is. But the larger good final that measures be taken to strengthen the rights of creators like you.
It is loyal that those mega-corporations opposite to the check could presumably have been inconvenienced by the legislation. It is their pursuit to make money, and their actions merely represented those purposes.
It is not loyal that the open would have been deprived of functions to which it has rights, but rather, only those functions that are copyrighted and being sole illegally by brute off-shore websites.
Particularly hapless to every photographer should be the attempts by Google, Wikipedia and others to conclude copyright as censorship. The tact is both descent and purposely false. Of course, the word “censorship” was selected by opponents of the legislation for the viewable romantic value. Americans in sold are innate with a entrenched hatred to anything that loosely resembles censorship. Those feelings are amplified in photographers and other creators. After all, you consequence a vital by SHARING your work, not depriving people of it. So when a behemoth corporate money-maker like Google attempts to mount on the backs of photographers to enlarge the profits, we as your organisation take exception. (As a side note, we conclude all of the difference of await you continually magnify to us as we urge those rights.)

It is critical to commend that Google, while it claims to be a crony to copyright, is anything but. PPA is one of several associations assimilated together in a legal case opposite the poke engine hulk for illegally scanning and posting copyrighted photographs on the Internet. A identical legal case filed by publishers and authors is also underway. It is our perspective that following Google’s lead in fortifying egghead skill is something like depending on the fox to urge the hen house.

That Americans have paid for into the fake and dubious tongue released over the past few weeks by opponents of the bills is unfortunate. We were astounded that a few creators were convinced by last week’s Internet blackout. And we were unhappy that some members of Congress, who are typically more reasoned in their care of copyright issues, crumbled in front of the shock strategy used by the bills’ opponents.

We will go on our Capitol Hill work on your interest to teach members of Congress. Copyright is not a “Hollywood issue.” The immeasurable infancy of copyright holders in the U.S. are small businesses. While Hollywood creates an easy target, the tactic is little more than a fume shade written to pull courtesy divided from the loyal issue—online companies wanting to enlarge enlarge at the responsibility of mom-and-pop creators.

Americans have regularly valued and shielded small-business rights. Each of us contingency work to be more cordial about the genuine issues, and inspire our friends and neighbors not to be led erroneous by the fear-mongering of Internet bullies. In the meantime, PPA will go on the efforts to urge the rights of photographers now and in the future.

Best wishes for a successful 2012,

David Trust,
Chief Executive Officer
Professional Photographers of America

SOPA / PIPA (and their destiny iterations in Congress) – Why I’m Against It

I think that we, the architects of the internet, are means to emanate bottom-up solutions for stream and destiny problems. A good example of this is Creative Commons, and here you am at Google articulate about how it affects “piracy” in my universe of digital photography.  Jump forward to the 7:30 min mark, when you begin articulate about this theme in particular.