|
Written by Ron Rovtar, Managing Editor, the Stock Asylum
|
|
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.
Continue reading Photolibrary Mess . . .at the Stock Asylum
|
