Thriving Archives Releases Footage Buyer Survey

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 84 Words | Posted 2/3/2009 | Comments

AP, Getty Shooters Dominate PGB Nominees

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 93 Words | Posted 2/3/2009 | Comments

The Image Works Offers CandidatePhotos

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 158 Words | Posted 2/3/2009 | Comments
The work of CandidatePhotos co-founder Chris Fitzgerald is now available via The Image Works. Covering 20 presidential candidates and 30 states, the collection depicts the two-year period preceding the recent U.S. election.

Use-Based Pricing Needed

By Jim Pickerell | 814 Words | Posted 2/2/2009 | Comments (8)
The industry needs a new pricing model. The models we have include rights-managed, royalty-free, subscription, microstock and rights-ready, which is about to become extinct. What is needed is use-based pricing, or UBP.

Alamy Toughens Quality Control

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 66 Words | Posted 2/2/2009 | Comments

Corbis Trims 30 Jobs

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 220 Words | Posted 2/2/2009 | Comments
Around 30 people will be departing Corbis over the next two months. Cognizant of the global economic crisis, the Bill Gates-owned company is taking a fiscally conservative approach to 2009.

Westend61 and vario Partner in Floral Promo

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 46 Words | Posted 2/2/2009 | Comments

AOL Cuts Jobs, Says Online Ad Market Weak

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 138 Words | Posted 1/30/2009 | Comments
Time Warner's America Online division is cutting 10% of its workforce. Though such news is not unique, AOL's reasoning gives new cause for concern.

iStockphoto Exclusivity Explained

By Jim Pickerell | 695 Words | Posted 1/30/2009 | Comments (2)
Many photographers found the language of the new 15-page iStockphoto Exclusive Artist's Supply Agreement difficult to comprehend. A big part of the confusion lies in the fact that an exclusive arrangement with iStock is photographer-exclusive for royalty-free content, unlike nearly all other exclusive arrangements in the industry, which are image-exclusive.

Everett Collection Guilty of Copyright Infringement

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 278 Words | Posted 1/30/2009 | Comments
The New York-based Everett Collection is in hot water for attempting to license celebrity and entertainment images without their owners' permission. According to Photo Business News, in the first development of Michael Grecco v. Everett Collection, filed in September 2007, the court sided with the photographer.

About Michael Masterson

Michael Masterson has a broad range of experience in marketing, business development, strategic planning, contact negotiations and recruiting in the photography, graphic design and publishing industries. In addition to his long experience at the Workbook and Workbookstock, Masterson owned and was creative director of his own graphic design firm for several years.

Masterson has been a speaker or panelist at industry events such as Seybold, PhotoPlus Expo, Visual Connections and the Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) national conference. He is currently the national president of the American Society of Picture Professionals (ASPP). He also serves on the board of the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council in his Los Angeles community. He chaired the marketing committee for the Los Angeles Conservancy, a historic preservation advocacy group, for many years.

He currently heads Masterson Consulting, working on projects ranging from business development for creative companies and sourcing talent for them to promoting and marketing industry events as well as providing resume and professional profile services for job-seekers. He can be reached at zvpunryqznfgrefba@tznvy.pbz.