{"id":6096,"date":"2012-09-22T12:00:56","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T16:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=6096"},"modified":"2012-09-22T01:30:38","modified_gmt":"2012-09-22T05:30:38","slug":"the-economics-of-nude-royal-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2012\/the-economics-of-nude-royal-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Nude Royal Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/092212_0431_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"530\" height=\"426\" \/><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s been a kerfuffle over topless pictures of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Duchess_of_Cambridge\">Duchess of Cambridge<\/a> (the link goes to a Wikipedia section about the controversy. Not the images themselves. We have boundaries!) The Economist looked at what this tells us about the economics of shooting such photos:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On the one hand recent developments in lens technology and the rise of camera phones have made the job of the paparazzi easier than ever.<\/li>\n<li>On the other hand these technologies are now widely available to the public and <em>anybody <\/em>can publish photos of celebrities.<\/li>\n<li>This surge in competing supply combined with the dropping demand for gossip magazines means that it&#8217;s harder than ever to make a living as a paparazzi photographer.<\/li>\n<li>The right images can still make some serious money though. The topless photos of Kate Middleton could be worth as much as $1.6 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about how Prince Harry fits into this, the increasingly harsh regulatory environment, and why Britain isn&#8217;t the haven that it used to be over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21563328\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/node\/21563328\">The Economist<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s been a kerfuffle over topless pictures of the Duchess of Cambridge (the link goes to a Wikipedia section about the controversy. Not the images themselves. We have boundaries!) The Economist looked at what this tells us about the economics of shooting such photos: On the one hand recent developments in lens technology and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/092212_0431_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6096"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6105,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6096\/revisions\/6105"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}