Jupiterimages Credits Getty For Its Rights-Managed Growth

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 259 Words | Posted 8/24/2007 | Comments
Though recent revenue reports of leading stock-licensing companies have disappointed investors, Jupiterimages CEO Alan Meckler says his company's rights-managed business is on the rise. Meckler credits Getty Images' refusal to distribute Jupiterimages stills several years ago as largely responsible for the current upward trend.

Book It: New Variations in Textbook Prices

By Jim Pickerell | 606 Words | Posted 8/24/2007 | Comments (1)
In the last 10 years, price and demands have changed in the text and trade book industry. At present, there are pricing requests for circulations of up to 1.5 million, and it is not uncommon to get pricing requests for 500,000 to a million circs. Prices, like circs, have changed, too.

Turbo Photo Offers Month of Free Stock

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 144 Words | Posted 8/23/2007 | Comments
To celebrate its five-year milestone, Turbo Photo plans to make over 1,000 Web-resolution images available free of charge for the month of September. New subscribers get a choice of 50 free images as a signing bonus.

Corbis Licenses Content From Toronto Film Festival

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 153 Words | Posted 8/23/2007 | Comments
Corbis has partnered with Moving Pictures Magazine to produce and license celebrity images, interviews and video from the Toronto International Film Festival.

Fair Use Battle Heats Up

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 454 Words | Posted 8/22/2007 | Comments
While copyright infringement lawsuits are an ever-present part of the photography business, much recent litigation has been directed at search engines. Content owners, including Viacom, Universal and Perfect 10, are alleging that a number of Web 2.0 companies have committed various offenses, ranging from direct infringement to facilitating content misappropriation by others. Now industry groups are actively weighing in.

iStockphoto Exclusive Contributors Get $100,000 Pay Day

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 63 Words | Posted 8/21/2007 | Comments (2)

PicScout Expands to Australia

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 275 Words | Posted 8/21/2007 | Comments
PicScout, which has offices in San Francisco and Herzeliya, Israel, has expanded its copyright-monitoring service to include Australia. The Israeli company services the Big Three stock agencies and smaller, specialty agencies alike.

Stockxpert Goes Green

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 90 Words | Posted 8/20/2007 | Comments

Getty Launches Affiliate Program through LinkConnector

By Julia Dudnik Stern | 224 Words | Posted 8/20/2007 | Comments
Getty Images has launched a business-to-business affiliate program, which will allow Web site owners to earn commissions by pointing traffic to gettyimages.com. The company hired LinkConnector, an affiliate-marketing company based in Cary, N.C., to manage the program.

Yahoo! Photos Closes, Moves Ops To Flickr

By Jim Pickerell | 373 Words | Posted 8/20/2007 | Comments
Yahoo! has announced that it will close its photo-sharing site Yahoo! Photos on Sept. 20. The company decided to focus all its efforts on Flickr, though users can transfer their images to various sites.

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.