Ok, I have said it before and will say it again but this time I heard a new term that is going round, “attention mining” to gain the attention and to keep people stuck on a social media site.
While this page is not a social media page, it is an old school blog and more like a look inside the creative mind of a photographer and videographer and business owner and it is my personal way to say what I want without any fear of it being censored by any social media company. This page is on my server.
So over the last month and a half, I have been stupid busy with several things. The weather was rocking with back to back winter storms. It was as if winter finally came back with a vengeance.
The other has been just trying to get the SCV pages up to date and working with clients for archive footage. We have a new partner in the footage industry that will be announced soon to help move material to clients and take a load off of my back.
Distractions? Yes, lots of them from having to repair stuff around the home like learning to rebuild a washing machine to the major news about a huge lawsuit involving one of the clients that we are not a part of but I still have received numerous phone calls about it. My short answer is my company had nothing to do with it and that is what lawyers are for.
Speaking of lawyers, it looks like we will be going down that road with several companies. I’m not naming any names as of yet but if I punt this to the attorney, I’m sure that a press release will come out. Turns out other footage companies that let anyone in to sell footage without researching who they are and where their content comes from are allowing others to pirate and resell copyrighted stock footage as their own, until they are caught and then try to hide behind the DMCA or Digital Minimum Copyright Act.
The only problem is these companies are NOT hosting companies that the DMCA protects but actually profit from the sale of stolen material that is also a crime.
The storm chasing business and video business is about to get a lot more interesting. Okay, time to get back to editing and finish this one project then back to the website and the 50 other projects I have to do…