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Projects by two German design firms use Corbis imagery.
Swiss photography agency Kursiv has released KIM Keywording, a new software package designed to speed up metadata entry for large image volumes. The application supports up to 10 languages and makes use of contextual keywording.
Alamy's annual contributor event will take place on Nov. 7 in London.
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Getty Images is continuing its foray into broader audiences and nontraditional ways of monetizing its content: Calif.-based blinkx, which claims to be the world's largest and most advanced video-search engine, now offers a Getty Images channel among some 350 others. The 26 million hours of content delivered through blinkx.com come from sources as diverse as the BBC and CBS to Real Estate TV and shoetube.
When professionals object to microstock, they are not asking microstock contributors to stop selling images. Most professionals do not have a problem with images being made available for small uses at extremely low prices. Most are also not afraid of competition on a level playing field. All professionals really want is for amateurs to stop allowing themselves to be exploited by wealthy buyers.
Jupiterimages has launched Photos.com Plus, which contains some 1.7 million images, including 1.3 million by Stockxpert contributors.
Three new licensing models from Denver-based Thought Equity Motion offer footage clips from Paramount Pictures, MGM Studios, Sony and others at prices that begin at $20--for select uses. As of this week, Web, corporate communication and presentation "stores" have been integrated into the Though Equity Web site.
It seems that every amateur who's made a few bucks selling microstock writes a blog extolling the virtues of microstock and encouraging other amateurs to try selling their images. I've got no problem with them telling their stories. But in their enthusiasm to encourage others, they often put out inaccurate information about the effects microstock is having on those trying to make a living shooting stock images.