nicolas claris
OPF Co-founder/Administrator
There is an urgent call for signing a petition calling for the save of photographers rights severly "diminished" nowadays…
Here is a Google translation:
Si vous voulez signer, c'est par ici et en français…
Here is a Google translation:
This call is launched by Union des Photographes Créateurs, FreeLens, and Saif
SAVE PHOTOGRAPHY
For visual creation that continues to exist and the Authors could Photographers continue to produce photographs.
This call for the constitution of the Etats Généraux de la Photographie.
The massive use of photos called "free" photographs "1 euro", photographs signed "DR", the general reduction of fares, contracts of assignment of rights does not respect the law, challenged by Justices of the original photographs, the trivialization of photography as a consumer and other injuries to our profession must be supported legally and socially.
These abusive practices generate an unprecedented economic crisis which threatens the authors photographers and photographic agencies which distribute their images.
We call upon the State, guarantor of freedom and the safeguarding of cultural heritage, make every effort to bring together all players in the photography and find legislative solutions to this situation.
The public and representatives of the State should take this into account. France inventor of Photography has a duty to support the free visual creation and maintain an economic activity that affects thousands of jobs relevant to our society.
To all of you who are convinced of the need to preserve and protect the author, photographer and hence the photograph, you can support this initiative by signing the call.
Si vous voulez signer, c'est par ici et en français…