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Creative Commons Wordpress plugin could spell big trouble for unwary blog publishers

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Uh oh,
A very large lid has just been taken off a huge can-o-worms that could have far reaching repercussions for both photographers and blog publishers who don’t realise what they may be letting themselves in for.

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Everyone is a photographer nowadays

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“My brother/sister/aunt/uncle/dad/mum/cousin/sister’s best friend………..
…………..is a photographer”
How many times have you been in conversation with someone and that line comes up? :)
It seems that everyone is a photographer nowadays.

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Stock Photography: Can you sell an image as RF and RM at the same time?

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Hoo boy….
There’s one “L” of a debate :) going on over at the Alamy stock photography forums (link to the debate at the bottom of this post). It seems that some contributors are placing the same image at two separate libraries with a simultaneous RM and RF license.
They are placing the […]

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‘Adsense’ style pricing license for images…….can this work?

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A very interesting new stock image licensing model has been announced. Its in its infancy and looks like the edges are still a bit rough but the concept has great promise.
It may change the way photographers sell images for web use forever..
One of the problems with the wondrous world […]

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Alamy continue to grow grow grow

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Stumbled across an editorial piece looking a the latest set of figures released by Alamy on the www.abouttheimage.com site here:
Editorial: Slicing and dicing the numbers at Alamy
I’m going to try and explain $PYPI and $RPI in a future tutorial but for now, have a read and see what’s happening at Alamy. […]

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New way to keep up to date with what’s new on thephotographybiz.com

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Just a quick note to let you know that as well as the regular RSS feed from the site, you can now sign up (see the cute box on the far right hand column) to be sent an email every time I add content to the site!
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Any web sized image at Getty for $49: Is this the beginning of the end for RF stock photography?

Holy schmoly, we all gulped, gasped and said “huh?” when Getty Images, the world’s most famous stock library, went and bought out the microstock retailer istockphoto a while back.
Microstock libraries like istockphoto sell RF images for as little as $1. They have definitely had an effect on the sales of traditional RF priced photography as […]

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Welcome to thephotographybiz.com

You’ve arrived at the launch of a new site that over the coming months is going to expand into a great resource for amateurs and professionals alike who want to understand more about the business of photography.
See the ‘About this site’ post here
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