Microstock keywording, retouching, uploading and analytics platform LookStat has released a free guide to microstock, designed specifically for rights-managed and royalty-free stock photographers. The guide contains details on how to establish accounts, submission requirements and profiles of the top microstock agencies.
Continuing a global trend to bundle digital and print, current and future rights, leading U.K. publishing company Bauer Media is rolling out new photographer contracts that seek “in perpetuity” copyright and moral rights transfers, reports BJP. Bauer Media will phase in these changes across all of its magazine titles. Company spokesperson told BJP that there has been a fundamental change …
U.K. travel, tourism and cultural specialist Robert Harding World Imagery says its Web site traffic has experienced a 20% increase in the past six months as a consequence of technical and content updates. Buyers are also spending more time online. Harding, who founded the agency in 1972, said it has added over 250,000 new images and relaunched the site with …
On Thursday, the Picture Archive Council of America launched a proprietary tool to provide the industry with a free stock-image meta-search engine: pacaSearch.
In response to “Stock Photo Lottery,” Bill Bachmann said: “I don’t know where you get the idea that 1% of images are sold are RM. I think you are pulling that figure out of a hat.”