Do you register your images with the United States Copyright Office?
Do you know how to locate infringements of your work?
Do you get angry and frustrated when you find your images being used without your permission?
Do you have potential unrealized profits you may know nothing about?

Please join veteran photographer Jackie Shumaker for an insightful evening as she discusses copyright infringement, and how infringements can benefit your photography business. Jackie will share with you how she shifted her mindset and discovered a new, positive source of income. This transformation in thinking can change your business through leveraging your rights, enabling you to discover and collect on unrealized profits. Jackie will share her real world experience utilizing actual examples of how she leverages infringements and turns them into income, and in some cases, even gains valuable clients!

Topics:
• Registering your Copyright.
• Changing your attitudes.
• Researching infringements.
• Team with a Copyright Attorney.
• Reality of Copyright and how to leverage your rights.

Date: April 20, 2010
Time: 6pm - Social; 7pm - Program
Cost:
Members: Free
Non-Members: $15

Location:
Denver Press Club
1330 Glenarm Place
Denver, CO
Map to the Press Club

Denver photographer Jackie Shumaker specializes in construction and industrial photography for editorial, advertising and annual reports for America's top industries. With over 20 years in the business she brings an insightful and refreshingly honest approach to the shadowy subject matter of copyright infringements. The technology that increased this problem now offers solutions for photographers, so they can now receive additional income . Jackie is a long time advocate for the business of photography and finds infringements to be one of the most over looked income streams available to photographers today. Her work can be seen at www.jackieshumaker.com. In addition, Jackie's best selling book, "Denver's Favorite Places" is available in fine book stores.

Do you have a nagging feeling you can manage your images better and faster? Are you insecure about your archiving and backup systems? Are you ever disappointed in the final output of your work? Join ASMP and learn about dpBestflow™, the definitive digital imaging resource for gaining efficiency, profitability and excellence.

Seminar topics
- Make informed decisions about choosing the best workflow for your needs
- Maintain the color intent and quality of your work
- Preserve your digital image files (and the work that you do to them) for the short and long term
- Communicate more effectively with clients, printers, digital labs or anyone else handling your files
- Work more efficiently so you can focus on creating great images and growing your business

Date: May 6, 2010
Time: 6pm - Social; 7pm - Program
Cost: TBD
Location: The Walnut Room, 3131 Walnut St, Denver, CO

Prolific author, provocative speaker and Adobe Photoshop Certified Expert trainer Jay Kinghorn guides companies in strengthening their workflow processes and envisioning creative uses for photography. The second edition of his book Perfect Digital Photography, which he co-authored with Pulitzer-prize winner Jay Dickman, was released in June 2009.