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Written by Ron Rovtar, Managing Editor, the Stock Asylum
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Thursday, 10 January 2008 |
 Getty Images has jumped into the United States' political fray.
The world's largest stock photography distributor announced this week that it has launched a new website entitled "Campaign Headquarters." The site is focused on the 2008 presidential year elections and includes links to various products offered by the company.
Corbis, Getty's largest competitor, announced an election web page in September. Both companies are trying to tap into the stream of cash that flows during a presidential election year. Corbis has suggested that $3 billion will be spent on political ads this campaign.
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Written by Ron Rovtar, Managing Editor, the Stock Asylum
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 |
Corbis could answer Getty Images' rights-ready pricing model with a beefed-up royalty-free offer that came to light with the recent publication of a 2006 patent application.
Corbis Chief Executive Gary Shenk has said his company will offer new pricing models this year, but the company has yet to announce any. A Corbis spokesperson said the company is exploring new models, but would not affirm that Corbis is considering exactly the model described in the proposed patent.
In Corbis' patent application, published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in November, the company outlines a pricing model called royalty-free plus.
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Written by John Terence Turner
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Tuesday, 08 January 2008 |
The powder experience is one of the great joys of skiing. It can also be a rare one, depending on where you live.
Wider, shorter, softer skis make it more accessible, but for photographs the photographer must have a good location, good skiers and good weather—all at the same time.
Those elements don’t come together on demand.
But when they do, damn it is fun!
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Written by Ron Rovtar, Managing Editor, the Stock Asylum
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Monday, 24 December 2007 |
While a micropayment stock photography distributor tries to move upmarket, a prominent traditional royalty-free image distributor appears to be experimenting with things down market.
And the two companies are meeting in the middle.
Paul Melcher, who publishes the Thoughts of a Bohemian blog has reported that royalty-free photos from Image Source now appear in a new Fotolia mid-stock library called "The Infinite Collection."
As Melcher points out, some images in the Infinite Collection are available for much higher prices from the Image Source website and from other websites, including Getty Images' site. An independent check by The Stock Asylum confirmed Melcher's blog entry.
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Last Updated ( Monday, 31 December 2007 )
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Written by Ron Rovtar, Managing Editor, the Stock Asylum
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Monday, 24 December 2007 |
In a bizarre turn of events, two websites that usually cover the stock photography industry with a degree of journalistic detachment have picked sides in an argument that has been raging over past due commissions owed to photographers.
Opinion articles by Chris Ferrone of abouttheimage and Jim Pickerell of Selling Stock implied that no legitimate questions have been raised about when, how or if Photolibrary planned to pay overdue royalties owed by its Index Stock division. The Australian stock photography distributor acquired Index a year ago with the promise that delinquent royalties would be paid in full.
What is odd about the two stories is that the authors seem more motivated by a professional kinship with Photolibrary than by any objective assessment of publicly available information, which is hardly as one-sided as the writers suggest. Both Ferrone and Pickerell are stock distributors.
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