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Shepard Fairey pleads guilty to contempt charge

Shepard Fairey, the artist who created the Barack Obama Hope poster, has pled guilty to one count of criminal contempt, a year after he settled his copyright infringement case with The Associated Press...

Copyright 24 Feb 2012

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Associated Press opens North Korea bureau

The Associated Press has opened a news bureau in Pyongyang, North Korea - a first for a Western news organisation. The bureau will feature a photo department managed by chief photographer David Guttenfelder...

Photo Agencies 16 Jan 2012

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Corbis signs deal with Associated Press

Corbis and The Associated Press have unveiled a "cross-distribution partnership" that will see the two photo agencies sell each other's images

Photo Agencies 23 Aug 2011

Associated Press photographer found "unharmed" in Libya

Altaf Qadri, an award-winning Associated Press photographer who had gone missing in Libya on Saturday, has been found "unharmed"

People 10 Apr 2011

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Associated Press, Shepard Fairey settle case

The Associated Press has reached a deal with Shepard Fairey over the Obama "Hope" poster that will see the artist work with the agency to produce a series of images based on its photographs.

Copyright 12 Jan 2011

Associated Press plans HD upgrade

The Associated Press has announced a “multi-million dollar investment to upgrade its newsgathering infrastructure” with the goal to provide high definition images to the broadcast and digital photography...

Photo Agencies 04 Nov 2010

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Photographer drops case against Associated Press in Obama Hope poster fight

Mannie Garcia, a former Associated Press freelancer, has withdrawn its legal claim against the news wire about the ownership of an image used to create the Barack Obama "Hope" poster (updated)

Photo Agencies 23 Aug 2010

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Civil rights photographer Bill Hudson dies

Bill Hudson, an Associated Press photographer who documented the police brutality during the civil rights era, has died last week. He was 77

Obituary 01 Jul 2010

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Alamy testing news wire service

Alamy is readying plans that will see the image library compete against breaking news wire services such as Agence France Presse, Associated Press and Reuters

Image Libraries 28 Apr 2010

Associated Press makes its photographers available for commissions

The American news agency has announced that it would, from this week, make some of its staff photographers available to other newsgathering organisations for editorial assignments

Photo Agencies 15 Apr 2010

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#Buy My Photo

Social networking sites can be treasure chests of content for news agencies, but they can also become a source of embarrassment, especially when fake images find their way into print. Picture editors tell...

Image Libraries 17 Mar 2010

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