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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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Never in the field of internet forums has this thorny question arisen so frequently. Often asked by those with only a Royalty Free (RF) experience of selling stock images (like those coming from microstock) it is a good question. The world of Rights Managed (RM) stock selling is all [...]
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Since the advent of digital more and more people are making images. That’s a good thing. The downside is that the explosion of photo sharing sites like Flickr and PBase have created a ready made amateur market for business savvy publishers to exploit.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re not doing anything [...]
Rights ready image licences are a recent invention by stock photography library Getty Images. Introduced at the back end of 2006 to coincide with a new collection called ‘Lifesize’, Getty positioned this new licence type firmly between the traditional rights managed and royalty free licence types.
So what does a rights ready stock image license [...]
At some stage during your new stock photography career you’ll progress from shooting landscapes, your cat, small objects on a white background and begin submitting people shots. These are the money spinners, the real sellers.
At first the prospect of hiring professional models will seem daunting. So many people cut their teeth by shooting [...]
