Articles by Jim Pickerell

ZUMA Press Partners With Australia’s Fairfax Media

By Jim Pickerell | 249 Words | Posted 8/26/2015 | Comments
ZUMA Press Inc. (www.zumapress.com), a leading visual media provider for the editorial community, has announced that it is now representing images from Fairfax Syndication (www.fairfaxsyndication.com), the most comprehensive range of Australian content from a portfolio of over 300 publications and websites.  

PDN PhotoPlus + Expo 2015

By Jim Pickerell | 482 Words | Posted 8/25/2015 | Comments
Over 4 days (October 21-24) attendees to this year’s PDN PhotoPlus International Conference + Expo at the Javits Center in New York City will have their choice of more than 100 seminars that include Photo Walks and Master Classes featuring the latest techniques and trends for photographers, filmmakers and digital imaging specialists.

Workbook Sponsors Visual Connections New York Image Expo 2015

By Jim Pickerell | 230 Words | Posted 8/25/2015 | Comments
Workbook, the leading marketing resource for commercial photographers and illustrators, will be the Principal Sponsor of this year’s Visual Connections Image Expo 2015 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York on October 28.

Photographers Don’t Understand Creative Commons

By Jim Pickerell | 447 Words | Posted 8/24/2015 | Comments
TechDirt reports that photographer Art Dragulis took a photo of Swain’s Lock along the C&O canal in Maryland and uploaded it to Flickr. Roughly four years later, he discovered Kappa Map Group was using his photo for the cover of its Montgomery County, Maryland atlas. He sued for copyright infringement. And he LOST.

Customer Risks When Using RM Images

By Jim Pickerell | 743 Words | Posted 8/21/2015 | Comments (1)
When Rights Mananged images are represented by multiple distributors it is possible for agencies that had nothing to do with an initial license to collect a fee for secondary uses. Consider this situation.

Getty’s Bonds And Loans Rally

By Jim Pickerell | 220 Words | Posted 8/21/2015 | Comments
According to Bloomberg (July 30th) Getty Images Inc.’s bonds and loans rallied as a report to creditors showed improving profit after several quarters of sinking earnings.

Most Images Race

By Jim Pickerell | 271 Words | Posted 8/21/2015 | Comments
Shutterstock has won the most images race with Alamy. Shutterstock now has more than 60 million royalty-free images in its collection in addition to 3 million video and music clips for a total of over 63 million pieces of content.

Architectural Photographer Sues Multiple Listing Service For Copyright Infringement

By Jim Pickerell | 389 Words | Posted 8/21/2015 | Comments (1)
Alan J. Goldstein, a professional photographer located in Silver Spring, MD has commenced a legal action against Metropolitan Regional Information Systems, Inc. ("MRIS"), located in Rockville, MD, for violations of the Copyright Act and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The legal action is Case # 8:15-cv-2400 (TDC) (D. Md.).

Where Is The Stock Photo Industry Headed?

By Jim Pickerell | 117 Words | Posted 8/13/2015 | Comments
For new readers, or those who may have missed some of what I have written over the last few months, the following are a list of stories worth looking at to get a sense of where the industry is headed.

Adobe Digital Publishing Solution May Result In More Image Use

By Jim Pickerell | 836 Words | Posted 8/13/2015 | Comments
The new Adobe Digital Publishing Solution (DPS), the next generation in its groundbreaking Digital Publishing Suite, pioneers new ways for brands to deliver high-impact content to mobile apps and is likely to result in more images appearing in apps. It will also become increasingly difficult for image creators to know if their images are being used in apps, or not.