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Written by Julia Dudnik Stern
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Wednesday, 11 July 2007 |
 Two weeks after the much-publicized launch of the Corbis microstock offering, opinions vary.
There are the predictably negative attitudes of microstock naysayers. Zooomr CEO Thomas Hawk, for example, thinks that SnapVillage is a bad deal for photographers. Hawk says that SnapVillage and other micropayment brands exist to allow large corporations to restrict photographer access to the premium stock-image market.
Tags: Thomas Hawk, SnapVillage, microstock, stock photography
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Written by Julia Dudnik Stern
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Monday, 09 July 2007 |
 In addition to the much-publicized launch of SnapVillage by Corbis, two more microstock agencies entered the market in the last two months: Albumo, based in Fair Oaks, Calif., and the U.K.-based Gecko Stock. Both community sites are attempting to woo potential contributors with 50 percent commissions.
Now there's a third. While Corbis and Getty Images separate microstock from their premium brands, London-based moodboard has just launched with a collection that includes both microstock and traditional royalty-free images.
Tags: SnapVillage, Albumo, Gecko Stock, moodboard, iStockPhoto
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Written by Scott Baradell
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Thursday, 05 July 2007 |
 The 2007 Travel Photographer of the Year competition offers a nirvana-come-true to the winner: a journey to Dharamsala, India, home of the Dalai Lama, for a two-day photo shoot with His Holiness. The victorious photographer also will receive earthly treasures such as an Apple MacBook with Aperture 1.5 software, Adobe CS3 Web Premium software, and a bursary of about $5,000. Entries will be accepted through Oct. 3.
Tags: Dalai Lama, travel photography, tpoty
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Written by Scott Baradell
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Saturday, 30 June 2007 |
 It's starting to seem like it.
First, New York State legislators introduced a post-mortem publicity bill (now tabled) that the American Society of Media Photographers said would create a model-release nightmare for photographers.
Now, the City of New York is considering new rules that would require "any group of two or more people who want to use a camera in a single public location for more than a half hour" to obtain a city permit and $1 million in liability insurance.
Tags: New York, photography law, photography permits
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Written by Scott Baradell
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
 Photographers will soon be able to file copyright registrations quickly and inexpensively thanks to the new Electronic Copyright Office (eCO), which enters its beta period on July 2.
Tags: copyright, eCO
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Written by Scott Baradell
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
 A New York State bill, currently in committee in the Senate and Assembly, is designed to protect the estates of deceased celebrities by making it more difficult to use their images for commercial purposes. The problem, according to the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), is that the bill is so broadly worded that it could make the use of stock photography featuring any dead person illegal -- even if the subject signed a model release while alive.
Tags: stock photography, ASMP
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Friday, 15 June 2007 |
 Getting model releases from subjects in the "Developing World" (some like to use the term "Majority World") has always been difficult. There has been a necessity to translate releases into many languages, and even when that is done, the subjects often have little understanding of how their picture might be used. However, as the world gets smaller, the need for proper releases becomes more critical.
Tags: Jim Pickerell, model releases, ANP, World Portraits
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