Getty & Corbis are talking. There are no official statements, but given the impact any agreement between these two companies will have on the industry it is useful to examine what might happen. This story explores a number of issues related to the talks.
This issue has short items on Getty and Corbis in Talks, Copyright Watch, Stock Catalogs Or Art Books?, Mayes Joins ImageSource, Veer Directory - First and Last Issue, and Insuring That Customers Delete Digital Files.
More and more book publishers are insisting on ten year usage licenses for the images they want to purchase. This story discusses the implications of licensing for such long terms when the way these images will be used is likely to change dramatically over the usage period. It also suggests strategies for framing the license.
Confused by sub-agent percentages? Want to know what the industry standards are for splits between selling agent, producing agent and photographer. This story explains current practices.
In response to photographer complaints that Getty's editing has been too tight Getty has launched ''Photographer's Choice''. Photographers are now allowed to put a limited number of images of their choice on the Gettyimages.com site and get the benefit of the major international distrubution it offers.
This issue has short items on SuperStock Closing European Offices, Masterfile Expanding Sales Force, Workbookstock.com Releasing New Catalogs, Dynamic Graphics Names Director of Business Affairs, Tracking Uses and Streaming Video In Advertising.
Photographers with large files of model released images are trying to find agencies who will take their whole body of work. This story includes advice Jim Pickerell gave to one such photographer recently.
This issue has short items on Presenting Digital Images for Customer Consideration, Online Use in the Book Publishing Arena, Licensing Unlimited Rights, Picturehouse in New York, Digital Vision Sanctioned For Racial Discrimination and Hemera's New Royalty Free Membership Offering.
Many organizations are putting huge numbers of images into online databases. The big problem is in choosing which images to scan. This story deals with the dilemma as outlined in a recent ASPP seminar entitled, ''Big Archives, Big Decisions: a Digital Dilemma.''
Now that we know who the buyers are, what do they want to buy? What are
the subjects that sell? In the broadest sense almost anything. Daily
there are weird requests coming from small special interest
publications and book publishers for very unique and unusual subject
matter that very few people are likely to have ever photographed.