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:
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?
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 [...]
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 very new to [...]
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 the [...]
