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.
PicScout has announced that 13 more image producers and companies have joined its recently launched Image Index Registry Connection.
Photographer Zee Wendell and art director Tara D'Ambrosia have launched Weestock Images, a children's stock photography agency, out of Newport Beach, Calif. According to the duo, Weestock fills a market gap.
The New York-based microstock is financing the construction of 12 wells in northern Ethiopian villages.
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!"
Those that have traditionally made their living licensing stills to print educational and textbook publishers should take heed: there is ample evidence that predictions of such uses giving way to digital, often video-based options are true. ITN Source and its Education Clip Library just announced a deal with Archipelago Learning to provide video content for Archipelago's Study Island-an online standards-based assessment, instruction, practice, and test preparation program for the U.S. K-12 educational market.
Previous methods of image keywording almost always involved downloading an image from a server, adding metadata and reuploading it back. In cases of outsourcing images to keywording companies, this involved huge volumes of data traveling back and forth. Piksee, a new software package from New Zealand metadata company Keedup, eliminates the loss of time associated with data transfer by sampling images off a server and adding keywords and other information without moving images themselves.