Bridgeman Footage Joins Footage.net

By Jim Pickerell | 407 Words | Posted 9/12/2017 | Comments
Footage.net has announced that preview clips from Bridgeman Footage are now available for viewing through Footage.net. Bridgeman Footage is a division of Bridgeman Images, the world's leading specialist in the distribution of fine art, cultural and historical media for licensing. Bridgeman Images represents over 2,000 image suppliers - including museums, galleries, artists, stately homes, photographers, private collections, libraries, universities, auction houses and picture archives.

Court Permits Copyright Claim To Proceed Despite Error In Registration Application

By Jim Pickerell | 256 Words | Posted 9/8/2017 | Comments
The District Court of the Southern District of New York, in the case of Archie MD, Inc. v. Elsevier, Inc., recently clarified the standard by which a copyright registration may be considered valid despite containing inaccurate information.

Stock Agencies Focus On Custom Shoots

By Jim Pickerell | 1756 Words | Posted 9/8/2017 | Comments
Since 2012 ImageBrief has been helping image buyers submit briefs to photographers about their image needs. Now Shutterstock and Getty Images seem to be getting interested in offering their customers custom shoots. In June Shutterstock acquired Flashstock and in early July Getty introduced its Custom Content assignments program to Getty Images and iStock Exclusive contributors.

Wining Photo Contests

By Jim Pickerell | 154 Words | Posted 9/7/2017 | Comments
It is no longer necessary to take pictures in order to win photo contest. Photographers who share their images on public domain sites are sometimes surprised to learn that others have taken their images, entered them in photo contests and won awards.

What Kind Of Images Are In Demand?

By Jim Pickerell | 939 Words | Posted 9/5/2017 | Comments
What kind of pictures do companies really want for their ads? What are they actually buying? In this story we'll look at some ways to get more of what customers want to buy into the images collections. And, maybe less of the images that just sit there and no one ever want to use them.

Hootsuite Collaborates With Adobe Stock

By Jim Pickerell | 400 Words | Posted 9/5/2017 | Comments
Hootsuite has announced a collaboration with Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Stock that will give its customers the ability to access, edit, distribute, and measure the impact of social content directly from Hootsuite, thus helping marketers get more value from their creative content.

Keywording: New Shutterstock Resource

By Jim Pickerell | 789 Words | Posted 9/1/2017 | Comments
Shutterstock has produced a new resource called The Shot List that may be helpful to anyone trying to keyword images. It includes some very broad general guidelines on the kind of imagery customers are looking for when searching for: Landmarks, People, Interiors and Religion and Holidays.

Shutterstock Downgraded By Jefferies

By Jim Pickerell | 375 Words | Posted 8/31/2017 | Comments
The investment banking firm Jefferies has downgraded Shutterstock shares from Hold to Underperform with a price target of $30.00. Shutterstock stock price closed today at $33.69 down 20% from $42.14 a month ago. The stock is down 52% from the high of $65.16 that it hit in September 2016.

Eight Tips To Prevent Image Theft

By Jim Pickerell | 866 Words | Posted 8/31/2017 | Comments
Everyday Copytrack is confronted with the question from their users of how they can protect their images. Despite there being no one method that completely protects image online, we suggest other tools and ways that reduce the chances of image theft. Here are the simplest to the most complex methods for image protection as presented by Copytrack.

Define The Term “Microstock”

By Jim Pickerell | 938 Words | Posted 8/30/2017 | Comments
I was asked recently if I could provide a definition for “microstock.” The term is probably meaningless today as are the terms Rights Managed and Traditional Royalty Free. All have changed dramatically and overlap in many ways..

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