California startup that helps local businesses advertise online is making use of microstock to offer small companies a bundled mobile ad service.
Late-January course devotes first day to asset management, moves into rights clearance.
Government officials, law enforcement and business leaders attending the Fifth Global Congress on Counterfeiting and Piracy earlier this month cautioned that the world needs to step up actions against counterfeiting and piracy to help boost global economic recovery. However, the lack of appropriate legislative structures and the general public's attitude make reversing the skyrocketing digital piracy trend highly doubtful, and not only in the very short term.
Close to half (43%) of respondents to a survey conducted by San Francisco photographer Jim Goldstein said Web sites and blogs offer the most revenue-generating opportunities in the social media landscape. Goldstein, who also just gave a presentation on social media at PhotoPlus Expo, designed the survey to help understand how and why photographers use social media. While responding photographers see social media as offering revenue opportunities, it has yet to offer much actual revenue.
Nielsen Business Media, the owner of a number of creative and advertising industry magazine titles, is selling and shuttering many by the end of this year. Adweek is going to a new owner; Editor & Publisher is no more; but Photo District News, its flagship trade show and stock-image business remain.
Geneva-based AbsolutVision is discounting pricing by 20% through Jan. 11. AbsolutVision specializes in JPEG2000 stock offered on a subscription basis at an annual cost of just under $50.
A Paris court ruled Google's book-digitization project violates France's copyright laws.
One of the oldest photographic agencies, Germany-based Mauritius Images, has launched a budget-priced offering. Bestprice-Stock offers more than 600,000 images priced at 20 euro to 80 euro and ranging between 1 megabyte and 50 megabytes in size, respectively.
Largely not, at least according to industry analyst Dan Heller. All financial assumptions about the stock photo industry may well be entirely wrong.