Is it absolutely necessary to offer on-line pricing and no negotiation to be successful in the E-Commerce arena? This story examines the issues surrounding this question.
With this file you can print out the entire March 1999 issue of SELLING STOCK which includes: ASMP Cancels Texas Seminar, Getty E-Commerce Success, EyeWire Launches Portal Site, Picture Perfect in Arrears and National Geographic Grams Rights. All of these stories have appeared previously in our on-line edition.
This article includes shorts on stock photographer Randy Taylor's elevation to VP at Liaison; Trend Watch's statistics on the number of creatives worldwide; Copyright and trademark issues in the UK and photographer credits at Corbis.
ASMP National Board has canceled a stock seminar planned by the Dallas chapter because the meetings were scheduled to give a platform to RF producers and traditional stock agencies whose practices the board finds ''inconsistent with ASMP's policy, goals and code of ethics.''
This report summarizes some of the 1998 developments that Getty Images recently reported to their stock holders.
National Geographic informed their photographers at their January meeting that in the future they will be using the photographer's work in more ways and they are offering less overall payment for these usages. See details.
After more than thirty years with FPG, Gary Elsner has started a consulting service for stock agencies and individual photographers.
Thoughts on new policies at The Stock Market; Changes at Corbis; Rights of Privacy in the UK and Fiduciary Responsibilities of Stock Agencies.
Nancy Wolff reports legal developments in trademarking of landmarks.
Charles Swan reports on Bridgeman Art Library's loss of its copyright claim against Corel Corporation. Bridgeman aledged that Corel distributed RF copies of fine art paintings which Bridgeman had the sole right to license.
We have just learned that in August 1997 the Central London County Court ordered Pictor to pay Philip Chudy approximately £45,000 in commissions that Pictor had been withholding for several years. They were also required to return Chudy's transparencies. See details of the situation and settlement. Pictor is the parent of Uniphoto/Pictor with offices in Washington, DC, New York and Los Angeles.
EyeWire, Inc. (formerly Adobe Studios) launches a portal site to provide all types of visual content - such as video, animation, photography, type fonts, illustrations and clip art -- to the professional community.
We have a major new survey which attempts to determine both income and expenses of stock photographers so we can make some judgements as to profits. We encourage all stock photographers to respond to this survey. The survey may be returned by mail or answered on-line. Non-subscribers responses are welcome.
Robert Tod, President of Todtri and Picture Perfect has provided a response to our Story 192 entitled ''Picture Perfect in Arrears.''
Sheldon Marshall has been replaced as Chief Executive of Visual Communications Group by Andrew Nugee. VCG is the still image marketing subsidiary of United News and Media in the UK and parent of FPG International in New York.
Ellen Boughn is on the road again. She is now Vice President-Photography for Artville in Madison, WI after being with Definitive Stock in Seattle for about four months.
Picture Perfect and Todtri Productions, Inc. are seriously delinquent in their payments to stock agencies and photographers. Both organizations are owned by Robert Tod and based in New York City.
More short news items of interest to stock photo producers and sellers.
With this file you can print out the entire January 1999 issue of SELLING STOCK which includes a reaction to Jonathan Klein's argument for lowering Photographer percentages, a suit against PhotoDisc for usage of an image without a model release, and a major feature on the changes in photographer/agent relationships as a result of major agency consolidation on the industry.
Photographer Larry Aiuppy points out the fallacy in Jonathan Klein's thinking when Klein compared, in his recent New York speech, the percentage compensation phototgrapher ''talent'' receives to that of movie stars in the entertainment industry.
A new feature of Selling Stock contains a number of short items of interest to stock photo producers and sellers.
In the last few years as more and more of the marketing of stock photos has been taken over by conglomerates, bringing drastic changes to the industry. Often, what benefits these companies does not benefit the individual photographer. This article examines certain issues important to photographers, and suggests photographer strategies for the future.
Sheldon Marshall, CEO of Visual Communications Group outlines future plans for Royalty Free marketing and discusses several other issues of recent concern to FPG and Telegraph Colour Library photographers.
The Bridgeman Art Library has produced a complete visual catalog of their entire collection on a single CD-ROM disc. The disc showcases over 100,000 pictures and operates on either MAC or PC. This is not a DVD, but a CD!!
Carl Purcell settles with AOL. Galen Rowell, Carr Clifton, Jeff Gnass and Tom Till settle with Price Costco. Several lessons were learned.