What Is the Future of The Industry ?
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Links to presentations of the CEPIC Conferences & Seminars

Welcome to the 15th CEPIC Congress

Alan SMITH, President of CEPIC welcomed to the 15th CEPIC Congress, providing insights on the evolution, past and future, of the Picture Industry.

	President's Speech on-line (Alan Smith)
	Download speech in PDF (from CEPIC programme)
	Interview Alan Smith on www.franckperrier.com

The Politics of The Image in Europe today

Michael FRENDO LLD LLM, outgoing Minister of Foreign Affairs in Malta, provided a on the game between Politics and the Image

The Politic Of  The Image (Michael Frendo)

Knowing Your Industry

: the Picture Industry in Facts & Figures

Based on his extensive researches on our market, Prof. Dr. Johannes GLÜCKLER, Professor of Economic Geography at the University of Eichstaett (Germany) provides precise and most recent facts & figures on our industry. In the second part of the session, he released the preliminary results of the CEPIC Industry Survey.

Download Report (Franck Perrier)

2nd International Metadata Conference Organised by IPTC and IFRA and hosted by CEPIC "Metadata for Better Business"

Ulrik Södergren/Digitalfotografen reports on the Conference on his blog

All powerpoints available on the metadata conference website : http://www.phmdc.org/

Work-in-Progress

New Trends in Microstock, New Technologies for Consumers and New Photo Portals

Andy Goetze (moderator) Klaus Plaumann (moderator) Bruce Livingstone Oleg Tscheltzoff Eyal Gural Lee Corkran

Stockphototalk (Germany)  Picture Press (Germany)  iStockphoto/ Getty Images (USA)  Fotolia (France)  PicScout (USA)  BrightQube (USA)

	Speakers' bios
	Assessing the Future : Work-In-Progress (Ulrik Södergren)

Pricing The Image

How To Grow Revenue With Pricing Strategy Modification

Jim Pickerell (moderator)  Rick Becker-Lechrone   Hans- Jörg Zwez  James Alexandre  Oleg Tscheltzoff

Sellingstock (USA)  blendimages (USA)  mauritius images (Germany)  Jupiterimages (USA)  Fotolia (France)

	Speakers' bios
	How To Grow Revenue With Pricing Strategy Modification (Angela Murphy)
	Download report (Angela Murphy)

Pricing The Image

Is the UK a barometer of global pricing trends (BAPLA)

Tim Harris (moderator)   Linda Royles   Joanna Santander

NHPA Photoshot   BAPLA  Alamy

	Speakers' bios
	Is the UK a Barometer of Global Pricing Trends (Angela Murphy)
	Download report (Angela Murphy)

Protecting Your Copyright in The World of Digital Imagery

Up-date on Orphans Work Legislation and Legislation Affecting the Picture Industry in the USA and in Europe
Revival of Copyright, European Database Legislation ...

Prof. Dr. Thomas Dreier (moderator)  Prof. Theo Hassler  Rupert Grey  Nancy Wolff  Klara Kanska

University of Karlsruhe (Germany)  University of Strassbourg (France)  Swanturton (UK)   Cowan Debaets (USA)  European Commission DG Internal Market

Summary of Seminar available soon

Checking Privacy Issues

The Intrusion of Privacy

Conservatives v. Liberals
Focus on France and the UK with most recent case studies

These case studies show that France and the UK have gotten closer into their appreciation of the bondaries between the right to privacy v. the right to information.

"The landscape of privacy in the UK is undergoing what promises to be a seismic change" tells us Rupert Grey, while Prof. Theo Hassler points to the most recent legal cases in France providing for three major exceptions in stringent French privacy right ("droit à l'image").

Prof. Dr. Thomas Dreier (moderator)  Nancy Wolff (co-moderator)  Rupert Grey  Prof. Theo Hassler

University of Karlsruhe (Germany)  PACA Legal Counsel (USA)  Swanturton (UK)   University of Strasbourg (France)

	Speakers' bios
	The Intrusion of Privacy (Rupert Grey)
	Evolution of French jurisprudence (Prof. Theo Hassler)
	Summary of Seminar available soon

Putting Words to the Image

Keywording : Best Practices to Accomodate Distributors

Kirsti O'Sullivan (moderator)   Andrew LaBonte  Janice Lodato  Mary Foster  Alan Capel

Keywording.com (USA)  Corbis (USA)  Jupiterimages (USA)  Getty Images (USA)  Alamy (UK)

	Speakers' bios
	Best Practices to Accomodate Distributors (short) (David Riecks)
	Best Practices to Accomodate Distributors (long version for printing)

SEEING THE IMAGE AGAIN

	Facing Future Challenges through Inter-Cultural Dialogue	Photo Exhibition
	The Story of a Picture and the True Story of the Spring of Bratislava 1968	Peter Bielik
	Malta, the Birth of Europe and the Four Elements	Peter Paul Barbara
	The Story of a Picture and the Emerging International Right of Privacy	Gilbert Duclos

	Photographers's bios
	Back to Basics : It is All About the Picture (Steve Lake)