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Image Metadata Handbook

Jun 07. 2011
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European picture agency organisation CEPIC has joined forces with standards body IPTC to produce the CEPIC/IPTC Metadata Handbook, which was launched on 20 May 2011 at the CEPIC Congress in Istanbul, Turkey.

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  • The Image Metadata Handbook is available for download as a zip file attaced to this article

The Image Metadata Handbook is available for download as a zip file attached to this article.

CEPIC/IPTC Image Metadata Handbook

  • Authors and contributors

Sarah Sanders (Electric Lane), Michael Steidl (IPTC), Paul Brown (CEPIC), Christian Donle, Nancy Wolff

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CEPIC Video Seminar: New Business Opportunities

Jun 14. 2009
11:06
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Ulrik Södergren reports from the CEPIC Video Seminar in Dresden, June 2009.

Moving images are everywhere. Traditional static signage and outdoor advertisement are replaced with large screens displaying moving images. Automatic tellers and vending machines have their simple button or text based user interfaces replaced by full colour touch screens. Cell phone displays now covers the whole front. With mobile Internet they transform into mobile multimedia devices capable of showing live broadcast or video on demand. There are already people broadcasting news, live from cell phones via services like Bambuser. The use and demand for moving image content is exploding.

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Extended Collective Licensing Arrangements And Their Practicability For Dealing With OW

Jun 14. 2009
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This is a background paper to the MILE-CEPIC Workshop on "ORPHAN WORKS IN PRACTICE" which was held in Dresden, 05 June 2009. The paper has been written by Dr. Mihály Ficsor, Hungarian Copyright Council and former Assistant Director General of WIPO.

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CEPIC Workshop: Orphan Works in Practice

Jun 14. 2009
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This is a report from the CEPIC-MILE Workshop on "ORPHAN WORKS IN PRACTICE" held in Dresden, 05 June 2009. The report has been written by Angela Murphy, Consultant, Image Management, Metadata and Rights.

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CEPIC Interactive Seminar: Getting Our Message Across Anti-Copyright Waters

Jun 14. 2009
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This is a report from the CEPIC Interactive Seminar "Creative Industries: Getting Our Message Across Anti-Copyright Waters" which was held in Dresden, 05 June 2009. The report has been written by Angela Murphy, Consultant, Image Management, Metadata and Rights.

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CEPIC started its seminars off this year with a hard-hitting and informative seminar about one of the greatest challenges facing our industry today – the increasing incidence of copyright infringement and the difficulties faced by those seeking to combat this in today’s technology-led world.

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Photojournalists? An Endangered Species in Europe?

Jan 10. 2009
12:01
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This survey has been published in 2009 from the European Federation of Journalists.

In 2008, the critical state of the profession of photojournalists had been examined in a survey among the member unions of the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ). Major problems are for instance:

  • bad working conditions
  • unfair contracts
  • low remunerations

which result mainly from competition with amateur photographers, restriction on photography in public spaces but also from the financial crisis. According to the survey, solutions should be put forward by the unions.

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The Situation Of Orphan Works in the EU

Oct 30. 2008
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This is a presentation at the PACA International Conference in New York, 26 October 2008 by Sylvie Fodor, CEPIC Executive Director.

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On Friday September 26th 2008 the disputed Orphan Works bill passed the Senate in the USA. Orphan Works (OW) are copyrighted works, where the copyright owner cannot be tracked down : the new legislation would enable users to reproduce works after “diligent search” but without facing the huge damages provided by US copyright law.

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Metadata Made Simple

Jun 14. 2008
11:06
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This article has been published in the ITI Directory 2008 by Angela Murphy, Consultant, Image Management and Rights Clearance.

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What is metadata?
Metadata is structured information describing different aspects of a resource, such as a document, an image or a group of images. Metadata will make that resource easier to find, use or manage. There are four main types of metadata: descriptive, structural, administrative and rights.

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Best Practices to Accomodate Distributors

Jun 14. 2008
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This is a report from a CEPIC Seminar in Malta, June 2008 by David Riecks, professional photographer.

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What is the EU?

Jun 14. 2008
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This article has been published in the ITI Directory 2008 by Sylvie Fodor.

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The EU is a political and economic grouping of 27 States, 455 million EU citizens, 6% of the world’s population, generating an estimated 30% of the global national product. It has the world’s strongest currency and a single market created by a system of laws which applies in all member States. It is also the world’s largest donor of development aid.

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