As promised, Getty is heavily promoting its new $49 price for Web use of any RM, RR or RF image in its collection. But some suppliers are rebelling.
The New York Times has announced the expansion of its deal with Redux Pictures, which licenses the newspaper's images. Redux has been the official U.S. photo-licensing agent since the summer of 2006 and will now also handle sales in Asia and Europe.
The Stock Artists Alliance has released a report addressing the image-licensing industry's key challenge, Infringements of Stock Images and Lost Revenues. The report addresses issues including image piracy, misuse of legally licensed images via repurposing or redistribution and the difficulty of copyright enforcement.
Several Getty Image announcements seem timed to one of the biggest photo events of the year: the Visa pour l'Image Festival, taking place this week in Perpignan, France. In addition to formally announcing its lowered Web-use license pricing, Getty has rebranded two of its services and selected the winners of its 2007 editorial-photography grants.
Corbis executives have repeatedly stressed that the company's goal is to ease the lives of overstressed, overworked ad-agency creatives. Now, Corbis' new "I Am Buried" integrated marketing campaign puts that promise into action.
Many professional photographers claim no one could make a living selling images for $1.00 to $2.00, but there are always exceptions. At 28, Yuri Arcus is the world's top selling microstock photographer and has a good chance of reaching his aspiration of earning $1 million from stock photography before he is 30.
Digital Railroad has launched the beta version of Research NetworkTM that enables picture buyers to submit research requests, free of charge, to more than 1,300 photographers and 65 agencies in 62 countries. Buyers may submit requests online in real time using their own descriptive phrases, or contact the research staff of Digitalrailroad.net MarketplaceTM.