I went into my internship today. They still don't have a ton of stuff for me to do, but Val did show me some stuff about cover design. They use a freelance designer, but the process really starts at FIT. Val gets the specs from Andy (the director) as they were specified in the contract. Then she gets online to find photographs that would possibly work. FIT tries to use websites that charge a low fee and let you buy credits like istockphoto.com. There are a lot of issues with copyrighting. Because the internet makes it so easy to download pictures that you don't own, many people think that it's ok. However, even though they are on the internet the photographer owns the rights to that photo. There's also an issue with using a person's image. They must consent to being used as a model. Places like istockphoto have many pictures that you cannot tell who the person is. Val selects a number of photos that she feels if the tone of the book, and then sends those to the designer. The designer then sends back a few different versions of a cover for people at FIT and the author to look over. I will be able to see the cover that they are currently working on throughout its development.
As far as the journal that I am working with goes, two of the four articles are copyedited and have been sent back to the authors to check, as well as a book review. I just sent the third article and an executive interview to Val to copyedit. Dennis (the editor) also sent me the table of contents and said that the fourth and final article will be to me by Friday. So everything is going smoothly on that front.
I'm still working on copyediting articles. I've been a little behind everything in my life the past week, so I honestly haven't gotten much done with it. But this week is looking like it will be slightly less hectic and I should be able to get more of it done.
2 comments:
I would really be interested in the copywright procedure with the photographs. I actually just designed a poster exhibit where I put three photographs on a poster that is advertising for the journal that I work for. I used my own pictures and pictures of my family for the sole purpose of not going through this whole debate. I knew that they would let me use them--no questions asked.
Thanks for the interesting discussion about the copyrights/permissions issues concerning images. You provide a nice discussion, too, of how these issues affect Val's decisions as she searches for and ultimately selects visuals for the journal covers.
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