Expert Details
Licensing Photography & Valuation of Past/Future Revenue from Use Fees for Existing Photography
ID: 731763
Washington, USA
Education
| Year | Degree | Subject | Institution |
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| Year: 1988 | Degree: Certificate | Subject: Executive Management | Institution: Anderson School at UCLA |
| Year: 1964 | Degree: BA | Subject: Zoology | Institution: Colorado College |
Work History
| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
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| Years: 1980 to Present | Employer: Undisclosed | Title: Owner | Department: |
Responsibilities:When self-employed or with employers permission acts an expert witness and photography consultant to law firms, photographers, publishers and investors in the photographic licensing industry. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2007 to 2009 | Employer: | Title: Director of Content and Business Strategy | Department: |
Responsibilities:She was advisor to CEO/Founder on matters relating to business practices in the image licensing industry and wrote a blog (that later became a book published by a division of Random House) instructing photographers in best practices. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2006 to 2007 | Employer: | Title: Senior Vice President | Department: |
Responsibilities:Supervised in-house counsel in dealing with infringement, revised photographer contracts, member of executive team, responsible for 80 in-house photography productions. |
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| Years | Employer | Title | Department |
| Years: 2003 to 2005 | Employer: | Title: Vice President | Department: |
Responsibilities:Organized business from beginning. Interfaced with IT to develop e-commerce website, with attorneys to write photographer contracts and end user licensing agreements, hired and trained staff. Supervised keywording.Supervised over 100 photo productions. |
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Career Accomplishments
| Associations / Societies |
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| PACA-Digital Media Licensing Association. ASPP-American Society of Picture Professionals ASMP-American Society of Media Professionals. (inactive) |
| Licenses / Certifications |
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| USPAP current |
| Publications and Patents Summary |
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| Her book was published in 2010 by (A Division of Random House). Valuing Commercial and Editorial Images. The Picture Professional. A publication of the American Society of Picture Professionals. |
Additional Experience
| Expert Witness Experience |
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| Expert has 20 years experience in writing expert reports, being deposed and testifying in Federal and State courts. Her major areas of expertise include valuation of licensing fees for uses of commercial and editorial photography and illustration for past uses. She has experience with calculation of future licensing revenue from archives in matters of insurance, dissolution, estates and taxes. Clients include Skadden, Arps; Hughes Hubbard Reed, Spataro Associates, Erickson, Kernell, Derusseau & Kleypas, LLC among many others. |
| Training / Seminars |
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| Universal Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice. Evaluating Photography Now: A Conference. NYU How to be a Successful and Effective Expert Witness Seminar. SEAK and Appraisers Association of America-San Francisco Chapter (ASA). IRS Symposium-Practicing Before the IRS. LA Chapter ASA. "The Numbers Game:New Math of Art and Architecture Appraisal". Pepperdine University School of Law. |
| Marketing Experience |
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| Expert offers unique experience in the photography licensing industry gained in her decades of executive level employment and consulting practice. She remains current in her supported opinions by interviews with colleagues, attendance at industry related events where she is a frequent speaker and panel organizer as well as with constant research. |
| Other Relevant Experience |
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| Expert has written expert reports concerning patent infringement in the online licensing industry. |