Just what is this “Orphan Works” thing I keep hearing about. It’s all over the web now. It sounds pretty serious. Trouble is, there’s just so much out there to read (just Google ‘Orphan Works’ if you don’t believe me) and this is legislation, so its not exactly written in plain English.
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photo credit: C.P.Storm
Following yesterdays controversial decision by Alamy to sell RM images for as little as 60p today Alamy CEO James West has announced an opt-out period for those seemingly locked into Novel Use participation until April 2009:
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I predict a riot. Alamy appear to have gone all microstock on us today. No, seriously. No, don’t look at your calendar - its not April 1st.
So just WTF (as teenagers say in text speak) is going on over there?
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So you’re underway with selling stock photography on Alamy. You’re getting some views and some zooms so you’ll have an Alamy Rank. How do you know what your Alamy Rank is ? How can you improve it?
PP shows you how to easily compare your Alamy Rank to […]
photo credit: Jeff Kubina
Doom mongers and naysayers have been predicting the collapse of the stock photography industry almost as long as Nostradamus has been predicting the end of the world.
So who is right?
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Hmmm….not sure what’s going on here.
Went to log on to www.dpreview.com forums area just now and got a response saying I’d been banned. I try and log on a couple of times a week and as those of you who read this blog who also post there know - […]
photo credit: William Hook
As we wend our way gleefuly into the abyss (only kidding folks!) that is the ever growing, ever increasing pool of “professional photographers” (cough splutter) chasing less and less work, I took a look around an identified five types of photographers working in my area today.
Which one are you? […]
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I’ve lost count of the number of times this one comes up. Usually in photo forums. I wrote this post today on a forum. Thought I may as well copy it here for posterity!
So you think you want to be a Pro? All fast cars and naked […]
photo credit: Mzelle Biscotte
As I’m sitting here typing this, my other monitor is displaying a slideshow of contemporary images from the Photoshelter stock agency. Photoshelter is a new agency that launched in November 2007, promising a fresh take on traditional stock to their image collection.
So why are so many professionals who post on […]
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Here’s a small tutorial on how to effectively delete an image off Alamy straightaway. If you submit to the Alamy stock library you’ll be aware that when you request an image to be deleted you have to wait a full six months for that image to completely disappear from the […]
