Zach Matthews
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Dan –
You are correct that these are very stable laws that aren’t likely to see-saw one way or another.
Not constitutional, but don’t let Brian (who is a lawyer) drag you into a debate on it.
Controlling authority on navigable waterways is actually pretty scant, because it arose separately in each state.
I’ve cut my fingers tightening knots a hundred times, but usually with heavy-diameter tippet and when my hands were already wet.
This looks like clever marketing to me.
Guys I just don’t know enough about copyright to tell you what the “law” is, but I do know enough about lawsuits to be able to tell you that whatever the “law” says, it’s always debatable.
Dusty, just remember the #1 rule in magazine photography/writing: the editor only wants to pay once.
We use “Zach and Lauren Matthews” for the same reasons David pointed out; it is just easier than trying to separate our respective contributions. Lauren has been somewhat inactive in the last year and a half due to graduate studies slamming her free time, but it will pick back up and in the mean time we have built a brand.
I will claim credit for a shot in the situation Carter describes (and I have done so when he pressed the trigger for me). If the photographer set the shot up, framed it, focused it, twiddled the dials, etc. then simply stepped into the frame to also be a subject while someone else pushed the trigger, then I think that’s the photgrapher’s creative content and thus his or her image.
Conversely, where I hand a camera to someone and ask them to use it as they see fit, I would credit that person even if it was my or “the company’s” camera. If an image taken in such a situation got sold in a package article-photos deal, I’d still want to compensate the temporary photographer either by cutting him in on the payment, cutting him in on the credit, or where possible, helping him place some of his own images elsewhere for a separate payment (which would be worth a lot more).
For the purposes of my Photoblog, I always try to run a “photo by” credit where someone else has pushed the trigger just by way of appreciation.
Examples:
I have credited Carter in the photoblog, but this was set up by me on a tripod and I coached everything I needed; I placed this photo in a Macauley Lord casting article in AA.
This is Carter’s own image, taken with my camera.
If I were the owner of a nice dock down there, I’d probably be constructing an “icebreaker” prow on the front of my dock as soon as possible.
Flint River tomorrow – probably get rained on.
Buffalo in Arkansas in May – if it is still there after all this flooding.
Gulf Shores Alabama in July – taking my pontoon boat.
Possibly Colorado this summer.
Possibly NZ this fall.
Zach
Ron, you’re in Georgia, right? Best place would probably be Jack’s Firearms right next to The Fish Hawk. Totally nice guy, totally up-and-up, lots of great guns on the walls and I’m sure he knows how to get less-great guns.
As it happens, I am about to buy my first o-u shotgun myself, from James Buice. He’s got a Beretta 686 Black Onyx (all-blued, field-grade, but very nice). It’s a 12 gauge; hopefully I’ll be overkilling on doves and squirrels this fall then bringing down a few pheasants in Arkansas over the winter.
This gun is making me drool:
Good thing James is a buddy or I’d never be able to afford it.
Zach
Ben –
Don’t worry about criticizing my alleged skill – I can’t hold a candle to half the serious photographers on this board, and I mostly rely on the camera to do what it can.