Major U.S. photographers represented by Tony Stone Images are unhappy with the editing of latest TSI catalog, ''Interpretations.''
Usages are priced much lower in the United Kingdom than in the U.S. or other major European Markets. Details in latest NSPP.
The Image Bank has acquired Archives giving them a strong historical division. They are rumored to be negotiating to purchase Picture Network International.
VCG of London becomes the worlds largest supplier of stock photography with the acquisition of FPG. Overall control of the industry makes another move toward Europe.
Comstock is producing ''royalty free'' discs. Five are our and 30 more will be released by September.
National Geographic takes hard line and refuses to provide any compensation to freelance photographers for use of their work on new CD-ROM project. Photographers and agents up in arms.
It is illegal to photocopy sections of books for sale to students. U.S. Supreme Court upholds 6th Circuit Court decision in Michigan.
Digimarc announces a tool that can be used in conjunction with their Digimarc watermarking software to help a photographer track usage of their images on the World Wide Web.
A system of unique identifiers that can be used to watermark images is developed by the Association of Photographers in the UK.
National Geographic will release discs showing every article and picture that has appeared in the magazine in over 100 years.