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Alamy announce sympathies for the plight of the UK Newspaper industry

photo credit: Yukari*
If I could embed an mp3 of a violin I’d do it.
In a 6.30pm email to all contributors yesterday (March 18th) the CEO of the Alamy Stock Library, James West announced that the mainly editorial stock agency may well have to succumb to a subscription based model based upon unlimited downloads [...]

Did you get a jar of Vaseline with that email?

photo credit: Mulad.
Ouch! Seems that all is not well in the land of $1 images. Seems that the $1 image companies aren’t making quite as much profit as they want to and are making “some changes”.

Tags: microstock, Photography Business, Stock Photography

When does fair use of a photo become copyright infringement?

photo credit: bloomsberries
Good question.
I saw a statistic somewhere on the number of blogs that are created each week and it’s mind boggling. The number that make it to any sort of maturity is only a small proportion but its still, on a global scale, quite a few! Now imagine those [...]

Orphan Works Legislation explained….

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.
But wait [...]

Breaking news: Alamy allow 2 week Novel Use opt out from 10th June 2008

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:

Tags: Alamy, limited use, microstock, novel use, Photography Business, RF, rights managed, RM, royalty free, Stock Photography