Those who license rights to use photos in textbooks should include
language in their invoices that requires publishers to provide the
licensor with a password to any web site where the licensors images are
used.This story explains why it is important and provides recommended language.
iStockphoto has been selected as the “Best Place to Buy Stock Images” in the
About.com 2011 Readers' Choice Award. Now in its fourth year, the About.com Readers' Choice Awards honor the best products, features and services across more than a dozen categories, ranging from technology to hobbies to parenting and more, as selected by its readers.
One of the great benefits of the Microstock marketing strategy is that
distributors have always offered customers a variety of ways to organize
search returns. In particular, sort-by-downloads has been a very
popular option. A “Redeemed Credits” option would get more of the best selling images of
the higher priced brands near the top of the search return order. This
method of searching would allow customers to see all the various brands
in a single search and still see more of the expensive images in the
early pages. See explanation.
The White House has proposed sweeping revisions to the U.S. copyright law, but the changes discussed in the 20-page white paper (
PDF) do very little, if anything, to help still photographers.
The
THP Photo & Video Services has announced that its members will distribute video with the same ease with which they have been distributing images for over 10 years. The THP now hosts close to 100,000 video clips along with its slightly over 13 million high resolution image files. The THP is a software platform developed and administered by age footstock.
Stock Footage Online (
www.stockfootageonline.com) has launched a new site with links to 80 leading stock footage specialist libraries. Currently, visitor figures for this site are headed toward 100,000 per month.
Despite declining photo budgets, and instability in the stock photo
industry due to the availability of microstock, automated digital subscription
services, and the increased accessibility of advanced digital
technology, Alaska’s premier photo collection, Alaska Stock Images, is
celebrating 20 years as Alaska’s largest agency providing unique
professional quality Alaskan Rights-Managed and Royalty-Free stock
photos.
Recently, I posted on the “Stock Photography: buy and sell photos” group
on LinkedIn.com some of the information about photography revenue
relative to printing revenue that is found in this
story. Peter
Dean came back with a related question that deserves some careful
examination. He asked, “Approximately how many more images are used
these days in print compared to 10 years ago?” He also wanted to know
whether print revenue is Static? going Up or going Down?
Two companies have announced new video offerings.
age fotostock is promoting its
THP Photo & Video Services (Technological Hosting Platform) that consolidates imagery from many suppliers and hosts it for distributors around the world. Stock Footage Online (
www.stockfootageonline.com) has launched a new site with links to 80 leading stock footage specialist libraries.
At ASMP’s recent Strictly Business 3 education weekend in Philadelphia
four photographers explained how they had reinvented their businesses in
the current challenging business environment. Here are their stories. There will be more success stories at the last Strictly Business 3 conference in 2011 which takes place in Chicago April 1st through 3rd.