DMLA Newsbreak 3/6/2021
Education
You're just in time to learn all about drones
On Friday, May 7, gain a uniquely informed perspective on the next revolutionary wave in flight: Unmanned Aircraft Systems.
This DMLA Info+ webinar, All About Drones, features:
Ret. Brig. Gen. John Allen, founder of Allen & Associates Consulting; former VP, Safety at JetBlue Airlines; former FAA Director, Flight Standards Service; plus a past member of the committee that reviewed drone safety and developed today’s drone regulations.
Joseph K. Hemler, acting special programs section manager for the Federal Aviation Administration, charged with overseeing enforcement of the rules, regulations and registration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS).
Amanda Perrot, director, associate general counsel for Adobe Inc, and a specialist in laws and legal issues surrounding drone usage.
In an interactive webinar moderated by Ms. Perrot, panelists will discuss what individual photographers, videographers and agencies need to know to safely and legally fly drones to capture excellent content, then respond to audience questions.
Details: 1 pm EDT May 7. Free for DMLA members; $59.99 for non-members.
Imagine an internet accessible to everyone
Join an insightful discussion of how well-crafted alternative tex (alt text) and intuitive SEO can make your visual content more findable, inclusive and profitable in DMLA’s Info+ Webinar: Image Accessibility and SEO, Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day.
The one-hour, interactive webinar will feature:
Caroline Desrosiers, founder and CEO of Scribely, a fast-growing start-up pioneering hand-crafted, highly descriptive alt text to make visual media more accessible. Scribely creates alt text exclusively for people who use text-to-speech technology, helping them access a richer internet experience and helping businesses fulfill their diversity and inclusion promises.
David Riecks, founder of ControlledVocabulary.com, which helps others build keyword hierarchies for describing images and increase findability in digital asset management (DAM) systems. He also was one of the volunteers who revised the IPTC standard for use with Adobe’s new XMP format, authored the first “User Guide to the IPTC Core” and recently was named co-lead of the IPTC Photo Metadata Working Group.
Mark Milstein, founder and CEO of Microstocksolutions, as moderator. Mark is on a mission to revolutionize content search and discovery because "great content without accurate metadata is, after all, a lost opportunity."
Details: 1 pm EDT May 21. Free for DMLA members; $59.99 for non-members.
Will you attend our 70th birthday party?
Save the week of October 25 for celebration and camaraderie at the 2021 International Digital Media Licensing Conference. We’re going virtual again with important tweaks based on what we heard from attendees last year. Speaking of feedback: The precise length of this year’s event is not yet set in stone. Will it be four days? Five? Tell us your preference in this one-question survey: