National Geographic informed their photographers at their January meeting that in the future they will be using the photographer's work in more ways and they are offering less overall payment for these usages. See details.
After more than thirty years with FPG, Gary Elsner has started a consulting service for stock agencies and individual photographers.
Thoughts on new policies at The Stock Market; Changes at Corbis; Rights of Privacy in the UK and Fiduciary Responsibilities of Stock Agencies.
Nancy Wolff reports legal developments in trademarking of landmarks.
Charles Swan reports on Bridgeman Art Library's loss of its copyright claim against Corel Corporation. Bridgeman aledged that Corel distributed RF copies of fine art paintings which Bridgeman had the sole right to license.
We have just learned that in August 1997 the Central London County Court ordered Pictor to pay Philip Chudy approximately £45,000 in commissions that Pictor had been withholding for several years. They were also required to return Chudy's transparencies. See details of the situation and settlement. Pictor is the parent of Uniphoto/Pictor with offices in Washington, DC, New York and Los Angeles.
EyeWire, Inc. (formerly Adobe Studios) launches a portal site to provide all types of visual content - such as video, animation, photography, type fonts, illustrations and clip art -- to the professional community.
We have a major new survey which attempts to determine both income and expenses of stock photographers so we can make some judgements as to profits. We encourage all stock photographers to respond to this survey. The survey may be returned by mail or answered on-line. Non-subscribers responses are welcome.
Robert Tod, President of Todtri and Picture Perfect has provided a response to our Story 192 entitled ''Picture Perfect in Arrears.''
Sheldon Marshall has been replaced as Chief Executive of Visual Communications Group by Andrew Nugee. VCG is the still image marketing subsidiary of United News and Media in the UK and parent of FPG International in New York.