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PACA announces publication of Nancy Wolff’s Legal Handbook for Photographers
For seven years now, Nancy Wolff, legal counsel to the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA,) has written legal updates for the organizations bi-weekly newsletter to members. These updates have served to keep the entire industry un to date on the myriad legal issues, changes in laws and key cases that affect the business of creating, licensing, using and publishing stock imagery. Wolff has now updated and compiled these invaluable explanations-in-laymen’s-terms in “The Professional Photographer’s Legal Handbook,” a must-read for anyone engaged in any aspect of the stock image industry.
Nancy E. Wolff is a member of the entertainment law firm Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Shepherd, where she specializes in intellectual property and new media law. A member and former trustee of the Copyright Society of USA, she was co-chair of the Entertainment Law Committee-New York County Lawyers Association. She has been a frequent speaker throughout the United States and Europe on copyright, new technology, and licensing and is a former adjunct professor at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.
In her book, which is co-published by PACA and Allworth Press, Wolff elucidates timely and pressing legal matters photographers and their representatives face: requirements, limits, and enforcement of copyright and trademark; fair use and public domain; first amendment considerations; the law of privacy and publicity, ramifications of publication of images on the Internet, and many more. Often citing real-life cases, Wolff’s clear writing style makes the complex subject an enjoyable and enlightening read to a non-lawyer audience.
To order the book directly from PACA, contact the organization by email at .
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