The eighth annual Picture Buyers Fair takes place on May 6 and 7 at London's Business Design Centre and offers a new service to photographers.
The Associated Press has announced plans to launch an industry initiative to protect news content from misappropriation online. Unfortunately, the proposed measures amount to tracking content and suing perpetrators, with which the stock-licensing industry has had plenty of experience but limited and unquantifiable success.
While undoubtedly self-promotional in initial intent, PhotoShelter's newly released SEO Cookbook offers plain-language guidance on how to optimize a photography Web site for best search-engine placement. The 30-page PDF file is available upon request and will be particularly useful for those who are daunted by marketing their work online.
Las Vegas-based multiethnic stock-licensing company Blend Images has revamped its identity, Web site and marketing campaign. The design work was done by Spil Creative, a New York shop managed by Latin-American and Asian-American partners.
On April 2, Corbis filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against a Washington, D.C.-based National Museum of Crime and Punishment. Beyond the inescapable irony of a museum devoted to crime committing one, the allegations outlined in the complaint are particularly egregious. Purportedly, NMCP agreed to pay Corbis a licensing fee of $139,600 for limited non-exclusive use of 705 images, did not pay any of such fees but has used the images since last May and continues to do so to this day.
After a recent partnership with Thought Equity Motion, which was universally deemed a smart move by industry pundits, Corbis has launched a new Corbis Motion Web site. The Bill Gates-owned company now offers ten times more footage and boasts sophisticated e-commerce features.
California-based Brand Affinity Technologies, which specializes in bringing athlete and celebrity endorsements to the Web, has struck a limited exclusive deal to provide its advertiser-clients with access to Getty Images editorial image collection.