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
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 [...]
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 [...]
photo credit: anyjazz65
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 [...]
Royalty free licencing of images is a fairly new idea. Introduced by Getty Images in the mid 1990s and quickly taken up by the other stock agencies of the day as an alternative way of buying image rights it quickly became a hot topic for photographers and remains controversial to this day.
So what does [...]
