The Stock Artists Alliance has nearly completed the first major phase of its metadata project, financed by an award from the U.S. Library of Congress. SAA project leader David Riecks said he was surprised by the high rate of metadata use among stock agencies.
In examining the Getty/Flickr deal, it is hard to understand how the Flickr managers could have given so much to Getty for so little.
For the second time, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with the National Geographic Society in Greenberg v. NGS, in which photographer Jerry Greenberg claimed that the publisher violated his copyright by reproducing images shot for the print magazine in a CD compilation.
Getty's gross revenue for Q2 2008 was $218 million with net income of $33.7 million. The $218 million is the same level of income as the same period in 2007, but down from $233.2 million in Q1 2008.
Three years after Corbis purchased eMotion, a provider of hosted asset-management applications, the company has sold it to Canada-based Open Text for approximately $5 million in cash and assets.