I receive regular requests from photographers who want to know how they
can license rights to the images they have created over the years on
film. Here’s what I tell them. Licensing rights to images is very
difficult in today’s market because there is such an oversupply
available compared to the demand.
Sam Faulkner and Annie Marie Musselman, and respective agencies Mon
Frere and 619 Graphic Design, are the recipients of the 2010 Getty
Images’ Grants for Good program.
Getty Images-owned iStockphoto has announced an iPhone app that offers features for both image buyers and contributors.
The 15th annual gathering of the Picture Archive Council of America is returning to New York this Octobe.
Fotolia has announced the launch of an Adobe AIR application that offers desktop access to the company’s collection.
At the recent CEPIC Congress in Dublin, Ireland, CEO of UpperCut Images Miles Gerstein offered
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his assessment of the future of the stock photo industry. Gerstein
previously owned PunchStock, which he sold to Getty Images in 2006, and
Artville, which he sold to The Image Bank in the late 1990s. His years
of experience in the industry provide him with an important perspective
on where the industry is likely headed.
Don’t tell Cathy Yeulet that you can’t make money in microstock. She operates
Monkey Business Images,
one of the most successful microstock production companies. However,
unlike many microstockers, she is not new to stock photography. For
many years, Yeulet operated a successful rights-managed business in
Oxfordshire, U.K. When traditional royalty-free first began to take
off, she created the BananaStock brand, which she sold to Jupiterimages
in 2005 for approximately $19 million in cash.
She started uploading images to iStockphoto in March of 2008.
Photographers and editors of Getty Images have earned more than 90
industry awards in this year’s ceremonies that covered images and
multimedia productions. The honors include top-level placement at
competitions by the National Press Photographers Association, the
Overseas Press Club of America and World Press Photo.