Alamy announce a ‘Find a Photographer’ service

photo credit: Caveman 92223
Alamy have announced today that they’re going to set up a section of the website where buyers of photography can “Find a Photographer”. Hats off to Alamy for a great photographer friendly initiative.

Tags: Alamy, Assignment Photography, Comment, copyright, find a photographer, Getting paid, licences, licenses, Photography Business, pricing [...]

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 [...]

Soft and lacking definition… just what do Alamy QC mean?

photo credit: DerrickT
Quick heads up for Alamy contributors having Alamy QC failure paranoia. I’ve been alerted to some great examples of Soft & Lacking Definition failures from Alamy QC over at andysmee’s blog here where he explains each type of failure with good 100% crops so you can see exactly what is being failed. [...]

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

Alamy go all ‘microstock’ with ‘Limited Use’ scheme

photo credit: rastafabi
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?

Tags: Alamy, licenses, limited use, microstock, novel use, Photography [...]