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:

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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?

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Is the stock photography bubble about to burst in 2008?

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

photo credit: alexanderdrachmann
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 […]