During last Friday’s hearing in the copyright dispute between artist
Shepard Fairey and The Associated Press, U.S. District Judge Alvin
Hellerstein said he thought that sooner or later, the AP would win.
Hellerstein urged the parties to settle.
PicScout spin-off
PicApp has announced
an agreement with Reuters, adding the news company’s photographic
coverage to the ad-supported image-licensing platform.
Alamy has changed its minimum submission guidelines to introduce a
24-megabyte minimum uncompressed image size. Judging by comments in
online forums, the move is meeting with contributor approval.
For the second year in a row, Alamy is supporting the Young Photographers Alliance
foundation. The U.K. library was the first company to pledge a
scholarship in 2009 and is renewing its support in 2010. Last year, the
Alamy Scholarship Award was presented to Julianne Jamora of the School
for Visual Arts. YPA was established last year to support emerging
talent in building sustainable careers.
Pixamba, the maker of popular
micro-contributor software ProStockMaster, has announced the launch of
a digital asset management platform to help microstock photography
users manage their image collections. Offered as software-as-service at
a starting price point of under $5 per month, the Pixamba Media
Management platform is designed to help image buyers index, store,
search, tag, back up and retrieve images for reuse.
The organizers of the upcoming Dublin congress encourage attendees not
to worry about potential disruption from the Icelandic volcano. CEPIC
president Christina Vaughan sent out a note stating: “The worst of the
disruption took place in April, and the authorities have now learned how
to deal with it.”
In a letter to its contributors, Corbis has disclosed it will be
seeking liquidation of the Sygma business entity in France. The company
acquired Sygma in 1999 and has had numerous well-publicized legal and
management issues with the former agency’s photographers, staff and
assets.
Getty Images has announced it has signed a four-year agreement with Sky News to license and distribute
Sky editorial footage, which significantly grows its news, sport and entertainment offering.
FootageBank HD has added 70,000 stock clips to Footage.net, a comprehensive search platform for the film and video industries.
“National Geographic Interactive adapts the analog magazine to be more
easily and logically experienced in a digital form,” reads the
description of the new products. The publisher also promoted longtime
director of photography David Griffin to the newly created position of
executive editor, electronic publishing. Such changes at one of the most venerable titles may be a
preview of the publishing industry’s future—and, in turn, the future of
the images it uses.