The New York Times has announced the expansion of its deal with Redux Pictures, which licenses the newspaper's images. Redux has been the official U.S. photo-licensing agent since the summer of 2006 and will now also handle sales in Asia and Europe.
The Stock Artists Alliance has released a report addressing the image-licensing industry's key challenge, Infringements of Stock Images and Lost Revenues. The report addresses issues including image piracy, misuse of legally licensed images via repurposing or redistribution and the difficulty of copyright enforcement.
Several Getty Image announcements seem timed to one of the biggest photo events of the year: the Visa pour l'Image Festival, taking place this week in Perpignan, France. In addition to formally announcing its lowered Web-use license pricing, Getty has rebranded two of its services and selected the winners of its 2007 editorial-photography grants.
Corbis executives have repeatedly stressed that the company's goal is to ease the lives of overstressed, overworked ad-agency creatives. Now, Corbis' new "I Am Buried" integrated marketing campaign puts that promise into action.