Many stock photography
professionals remain largely unaware of the widespread and
institutionalized practice of copyright infringement that plagues the
textbook licensing industry. The dual purpose of this article is to
provide a brief introduction to this phenomenon and, in doing so, to
help alert photographers, vendors, and other stock photography
professionals to the fact that major U.S. textbook publishers have
been—and, indeed, still continue to—systematically infringe third-party
copyrights in photographs that they use in textbooks and various other
materials. We also will explore some of the various factors that allowed
this situation to occur and go unnoticed, despite being an
industry-wide practice that has given rise to some of the most egregious
cases of copyright infringement in recent memory.
In a smart move that borrows from trend-setting technology practices of
newer image companies, Corbis has launched a contributor Web site to
provide a single pace for represented photographers to manage their
relationship with the company.
SuperStock refunds photographer royalties after purchasing U.K. agency.
I’d like to encourage you to take a look at some of the “Free Stuff”
available on this site. Click on this link
(
http://www.photolicensingoptions.com) and you find a list of Free Stuff
in the column on the right. The stories listed will give you a good
sense of the resources available on this site.
Agency professionals, service providers, photographers and those
interested in stock licensing are invited to the ASMP Meetup between
5:00pm and 6:30pm in the Javits Center Cafeteria on Friday, October 29.
Everyone interested in stock photography is invited; ASMP membership is
not required.
The president and chief operating officer of the Associated Press
recently spoke at the meeting of the Southern Newspaper Publishers
Association in Austin. Although Tom Curly was addressing the news
industry, the issues discussed were identical to those faced by image
creators and marketers, particularly matters that address online and
digital uses of content.
Copyright lawyers Dan Nelson and Kevin McCulloch provide some background on how major U.S. textbook
publishers have been—and, indeed, still continue to—systematically
infringe photo the copyrights of the photographs they use in
textbooks and various other materials. They explore some of the
various factors that allowed this situation to occur and go unnoticed,
despite being an industry-wide practice that has given rise to some of
the most egregious cases of copyright infringement in recent memory.
Alamy is seeking an industry heavyweight to develop a worldwide news division.
“Our contention is that the iPad version of a magazine is part of the
rate base of that magazine,” said Condé Nast vice president of editorial
operations Richard Levine at the recent conference of the Picture
Archive Council of America. “A new strategy for acquiring content is
needed because it will be impossible to anticipate how imagery initially
acquired primarily for print use might be repurposed,” he continued.
This is not unique to Condé Nast issue, but rather a position other
publishers have already taken or will need to take in the near future.