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13/06/2024

AI is turning into a tsunami of corporate cannibalism, c/o offers you cannot refuse. We've had FB trying to appropriate user content for AI training, and this week Apple v Elon. It's only fair that Adobe and MS should try it on too.
Personally I have never used Adobe Creative Cloud despite a PS sub, nor MS One Drive on Win 10. I don't trust Adobe at all since they inserted Adobe Stock and themselves as a middle-man predator, nor MS (various past incursions into user rights). Win11 looks as invasive as Japanese Knotweed.... None of this may matter to casual, personal users - but enforced ingestion of work by professional creators is destroying their markets. Generative obsolescence is the USP.
I've been following this YouTube tech, Jody Bruchon, for some time. He is not a paranoid frothing idiot, he just digs deeper than the clickbait effluencers. If you have the attention span, do try and watch it.

He's focussing on US 'work for hire', but ISTM any commissioned work can have exclusive rights and consequent value that these companies will trample regardless of what the client and creator have contractually agreed. Bruchon sees this as rendering the software illegal, but so is copyright, and that has become de facto normal and almost unassailable because it's hard to detect and onerous to assert.

I never expected THIS to be what killed the big software makers. Wow.SUPPORT LINKSPayPal: https://paypal.me/JodyBruchonKo-Fi: https://ko-fi.com/L3L02069DLibe...

26/05/2024

Object to Your Information Being Used for AI at Meta
https://www.facebook.com/help/contact/6359191084165019

More info at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/genai

Some Facebook users seem to have had notifications of this development, many haven't. If you don't want FB/meta ingesting your copyright material for AI use here is the 'official' Facebook form.

Yes, I know that in general 'FB T&C's aim to steal your copyright and eat your children' are fake and should be ignored, but this is easy to verify via the links above.

01/12/2023

Wishing you a merry festive season wherever you may be - please enjoy this story of celebration in Rajasthan, India, by Mike Amphlett, this December's Member Showcase:

Henna, by Michael J Amplett | Editorial Photographers UK

01/11/2023

Assuming you survived the onslaught of trick or treaters last night, and haven’t been driven to leaving the internet by the news, this month’s showcase image of Scottish artists Beagle & Ramsay by Jeremy Sutton-Hibbert will bring something interesting and entertaining to your morning - have a look here:

01/10/2023

Welcome to October! This month’s EPUK Member's Showcase is by John Walmsley, from his new book ‘Don’t Tell Me How to Run My Art School’, about the famous (or infamous?) eight-week student sit-in at Guildford Art School in 1968, made with Claire Grey. It changed the face of UK education. Read about the work on EPUK here. And the book itself is for sale from John's website too (link in article).

01/09/2023

As we slide inexorably towards autumn and the annual harvest in allotments across the land, this month’s Showcase is dedicated to the not-so-humble POTATO, thanks to the dedication of David White, who has made extensive studies of the Potato In Motion. Please enjoy:

01/08/2023

In the midst of this strangest of summers, this August’s Member Showcase is a throwback to the summer of 1976, drought summer of legend, by the legend himself Brian Harris!

02/07/2023

With apologies for the day’s delay, please enjoy this month’s spectacular Member’s Showcase by Patrick Eden on the beautiful Isle of Wight - just in time for Cowes Week!

http://www.epuk.org/showcase/freshwater-bay-isle-of-wight-by-patrick-eden

01/06/2023

As we finally hit summer, this month’s showcase is from the Jazz a Viennes festival, by Tim Motion - he has delved into his fabulous archive to find seminal images of the greats, including this one of Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin:

07/05/2023

Our Member's Showcase this month is the spectacular aerial photography of Jonathan Webb - enjoy!

01/03/2023

Please enjoy this month’s Showcase by Elainea Emmott, from her sensitive work at protests - 'United in Grief: Remembering Chris Kaba', an image which was celebrated in ‘Portrait of Britain’.

http://www.epuk.org/showcase/united-in-grief-remembering-chris-kaba-by-elainea-emmott

01/02/2023

WARNING: Readers should be aware that this month’s image and story shows and describes trauma and risk to life.

This month’s EPUK Member's Showcase is by John Calllan, who has specialised in working alongside our remarkable emergency services for 45 years. His image tells the story of one ’shout’ amongst too many - http://www.epuk.org/showcase/helicopter-emergency-service-shout-by-john-callan

John’s work reminds us how deeply fortunate we are in the UK to have public services - free at the point of delivery - such as the Helicopter Medical Emergency Service. Thank you John.

03/01/2023

As we welcome 2023 and say good riddance to 2022, please enjoy this beautiful trumpet heralding the New Year, from Joanne Coates' project ‘The Lie of the Land’ currently exhibiting at the Baltic in Gateshead. http://www.epuk.org/showcase/lynn-s-object-brass-from-the-lie-of-the-land-by-joanne-coates

May we all be blessed with plenty of good work, rest and play in the next twelve months.

01/11/2022

"Early Lesson for New Leader..."

As we find ourselves with the 57th Prime Minister since last month’s showcase, and eagerly awaiting the appointment of the next, EPUK is delighted to Showcase a masterclass in front page news photography:

October 1983 in The Times, Neil Kinnock falling into the sea, captured blow-by-blow by Brian Harris:

It’s a rollercoaster of a tale - and also a taster of Brian’s book ‘…and then the Prime Minister hit me…’ which he is generously making available to EPUK members at a substantial discount. Lucky us!

01/10/2022

October EPUK Showcase by our member Paul Raftery - from his upcoming London exhibition 'New Dawn for Europe' at Anise Gallery

ttp://www.epuk.org/showcase/new-dawn-for-europe-by-paul-raftery

New Dawn for Europe by Paul Raftery | Editorial Photographers UK

03/09/2022

Showcase, 1 September 2022: Brockie the Dog with Stick, from the series 'What Happened Here' by Tim Gander. http://www.epuk.org/

03/09/2022

Showcase, 1 September 2022: Brockie the Dog with Stick, from the series 'What Happened Here' by Tim Gander. http://www.epuk.org/showcase/brockie-the-dog-with-stick-from-the-series-what-happened-here-by-tim-gander

AI, Text & Data Mining and what it means for you | Editorial Photographers UK

01/08/2022

August's Member Showcase is 'ROAD' by Nigel Dickinson, from a long-term project begun in the 1990s following the road protest movement.

This work forms part of TATE Liverpool’s 2022 Art exhibition ‘Radical Landscapes’, which moves to The Mead Gallery at Warwick University later this year.

• A wider selection of Road Protest and HS2 Resistance photographs will also be presented at this year’s Visa Pour l’Image photojournalism festival in Perpignan, France, and are part of the traveling 'Resistance Exhibition' shown at Glastonbury 2022 and other festivals across the UK.

'ROAD' by Nigel Dickinson | Editorial Photographers UK

01/07/2022

July Showcase: A glorious example of football culture by Duncan Elliott

The FA Cup Run, by Duncan Elliott | Editorial Photographers UK

01/06/2022

Please enjoy June's Jubilee Showcase by David Hoffman - http://www.epuk.org/showcase/queen-elizabeth-ii-silver-jubilee-stepney-east-london-1977-by-david-hoffman

Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee. Stepney, East London 1977 by David Hoffman | Editorial Photographers UK

01/05/2022

Happy May Day everyone and welcome to summer!

This month’s showcase is a spectacular one from the Jack in the Green festival in Hastings by Chris Parker http://www.epuk.org/showcase/jack-in-the-green-by-chris-parker

Jack in the Green, by Chris Parker | Editorial Photographers UK

01/04/2022

This month’s Members’ Showcase is a collective effort by a number of members in support of those effected by the crisis in Ukraine. To see the images and more information, click here: http://www.epuk.org/showcase/epuk-supports-ukraine

Ukraine | Editorial Photographers UK

01/03/2022

Please enjoy this fascinating and important story by Mariann Fercsik in this month’s Member Showcase: Hand-Pollination in China, which has been widely published internationally and will be available in book form next month:

http://www.epuk.org/showcase/hand-pollination-in-china-by-mariann-fercsik

Hand Pollination in China, by Mariann Fercsik | Editorial Photographers UK

09/02/2022

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Photographers are you throwing your rights and potential away? Leading copyright experts Andrew Wiard, David Hoffman and Jason Sheldon join the podcast to te...

02/02/2022

The earlier problem with the 'join EPUK' form have now been fixed!

http://www.epuk.org/join

Join EPUK | Editorial Photographers UK

05/12/2021

21/11/2021

John Cantlie - The Last Hostage - GQ Magazine. https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/the-last-hostage-the-story-of-john-cantlie

From 2019: As troops closed in on the last remnants of Isis in Syria, one question was about to be answered: was captured British journalist John Cantlie still alive?

19/11/2021

Mick Rock, Photographer Behind Iconic Images of David Bowie, Lou Reed, Dead at 72

Known as ‘The Man Who Shot the Seventies,’ his work captured a range of artists from Blondie to Snoop Dogg

17/11/2021

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