Press Release More than a third of UK creative professionals illegally use Internet images without remorse Polylooks survey unearths widespread misuse of image copyright by creatives London and Bonn, 16 December 2009: More than a third of UK marketing, PR and publishing professionals (37 per cent) admit to using images illegally from the Internet. A survey of UK creative professionals (*) by Deutsche Telekom’s online photo agency, Polylooks.co.uk, found that not only do a great many creative professionals use images from the Web without paying for the rights, but additionally, most do not understand the meaning of the terms ‘royalty…
Author: Amos Struck
Amos Struck
I write about the stock photo and microstock industry since 2006 on my several online-magazines. My goal for MyStockPhoto is to teach photographers and stock photographers how to sell more photos and earn money with their photography hobby.
I’ve recently submitted to the most popular microstock agencies a small batch of 5 images. These pictures aren’t masterpieces of the microstock kingdom but I’m going to use them to show you, especially to the beginners, how can be different the acceptance policy of the different agencies; also we have to say that there is another strong component that models the policy: the inspector subjectivity that can’t be inspected ;-). First of all, I’m going to introduce the batch giving my personal – and humble – opinion about technical quality, aesthetic and commercial value, with a number representing my expected…
Dreamstime is going to remove the prints program (posters and canvases) because customers experienced significant inconveniences and shipping delays. based on a photo by © Aelita (Olena Abazid) | Dreamstime.com From Dreamstime’s forum, original post by Achilles (Serban Enache, Dreamstime’ s CEO): ### “We decided to remove the prints program” The logistical hassle and dependence on third party services made us reconsider the future of this program. It is also the reason why you didn’t see too many updates. This program wasn’t able to take off properly. It’s the first time we had to remove a product since our inception,…
Press Release Veer Introduces Customer Protection Plan for Value-Priced Images $10,000 of indemnity coverage now provided free on all Veer Marketplace purchases, giving customers added peace of mind CALGARY (December 8, 2009) – Veer (www.veer.com), a producer and provider of visual elements and design-related products, today announced the introduction of a new Customer Protection Plan automatically extended to customers purchasing microstock content on Veer Marketplace. The Veer Marketplace Customer Protection Plan provides customers free protection up to $10,000, which can be used to cover legal costs and direct damages in the event that a claim is ever filed against an…
Press Release ### Shutterstock Teams Up with Charity: Water to Build 12 Wells in Africa – One for Every Month of 2010 Innovative partnership will bring clean, safe water to villages in need. New York, NY (PRWEB) December 3, 2009 – Shutterstock, the world’s largest subscription-based stock photo agency, announced today that it has partnered with charity: water to build 12 wells in Africa in 2010 – one for each month of the year. The partnership aims to address one of the fundamental problems facing developing nations today: the lack of clean, safe drinking water. Shutterstock is donating $60,000 to…
© Feng Yu – Fotolia.com — – Is microstock the antithesis of a fair trade photography? An opposite opinion. Microstock is giving the opportunity to a large amount of amateur and hobbyist photographers to enter in the photographic market. The user content generated concept of the beginning is still present but microstock has become a well established industry and in the last period we are observing a lot of pro photographers that are joining the arena. Someone is doing a good money, someone else is very happy about an extra earning that let him to buy, for example, a new…
A new resource for stock photography and images is launched, DepositPhotos, with a Photographer Promotion Program. Press Release Welcome to DepositPhotos.com, your new resource for stock photography and images! We connect image buyers and sellers with our incredible, easy-to-use platform. We invite you to take a look around and explore everything that DepositPhotos has to offer! DepositPhotos is aggressively building our image library and we’re welcoming photographers and illustrators to join us! That’s why we’re offering our special Photographer Promotion Program that pays photographers and illustrators for every image added to our site! To take part in the Photographers Promotion…
Eastern Europe (Micro)Stock is rising up With a title that wants to paraphrase a stock market index trend ;-), I’m going to point out 2 different news that are showing the expansion of the photographic microstock business in the Eastern Europe, also considering that Dreamstime is headquartered in Romania, Microstocksolutions has offices in Hungary and Romania, Pixmac has recently launched the Polish site and certainly other microstock activities are well hosted there.
Press Release Polylooks launches online community for microstock image buyers Polylooks.co.uk, the online stock photo agency owned by Deutsche Telekom, has launched its Polylooks International Facebook fan page to give amateur and professional photographers and artists alike a forum to collaborate online. People looking to download stock photos or buy royalty free illustrations online can also benefit from expert tips at the site and at Polylooks’ microstock photography blog. Polylooks enables photographers and artists to sell their work to publishers through the popular microstocking model, which is now a multi-billion dollar industry globally. The Polylooks International fan page will contain…
From Getty Images Blog The Flickr Collection by Getty Images Announces Call for Artists It’s been over a year since Getty Images partnered with Flickr to launch the groundbreaking Flickr Collection on www.gettyimages.com. We wanted to provide a quick update on how the Collection has grown and some of the exciting new developments in our partnership. When launching the Flickr collection, our goal was to choose photos that created a commercially viable collection, while preserving the inspirational and unexpected nature of the kinds of images that are so prevalent on Flickr. We’re proud to announce that today the collection has…