National Geographic has announced that it is ceasing regular publication of "National Geographic Adventure" with the current December/January issue after 10 years of publishing the travel and outdoor adventure magazine.
Joichi Ito, the chief executive officer of Creative Commons, has joined the advisory board of PicScout. The company's ImageExchange platform has also welcomed Dreamstime to the list of participating agencies.
Most professional photographers are adamantly opposed to Creative Commons licenses, which are used to allow free uses of images. However, widespread use of Creative Commons licenses may actually help establish in the minds of users the very important copyright law principle that "All Rights [are] Reserved" by the creator or copyright holder of any work, and that it is left to the creator to specify who has what rights to make what uses of the work and at what cost.
From marrying assignment and stock to choosing among rights-managed, royalty-free and non-traditional image licensing strategies, Bill Bachmann's experience offers food for thought.
Bill Bachmann, author and publisher of
Remember The Joy -- How To Have a Successful Career in Photography and Have Fun Doing It, says: "The best part of my life is that I shoot what I love. Everyone should do that!"
Travel photographer Bill Bachmann is an ardent advocate for basing stock image pricing on usage (the rights-managed model), not on file size (the royalty-free and microstock models). In 2009, Bachmann is on track to earn almost $1 million from licensing his travel and lifestyle images.
Current established
usage fees are so low that many photographers and small agencies that
have specialized in selling to textbooks have either gone out of
business, or are on the verge of doing so. Nevertheless, the
excessively low prices were still not enough for the publishers. To
press their advantage it now appears that many of the larger publishers
have systematically, not occasionally or accidentally, printed many
more copies of books than they licensed rights to print.
The figures gathered by CEPIC last year suggest that the stock industry's gross revenue estimates could be inflated by as much as a third as a result of double counting sales.
Getty Images Photographer's Choice contributors have been asking if they can participate in the recent Flickr Collection Call for Artists. Getty is allowing this, as long as the contributor has a payee name that is different from his or her current account. This can be accomplished as simply as adding "Inc." or "LLC" to the contributor name name.
More and more publishers seem to be discovering that they "accidentally" printed more copies of books than they licensed rights to print. The latest comes from Scholastic.