Capture integrates PLUS licensing standards into its asset management system
Capture a leading developer of image and digital asset management systems from the UK has announced that it has integrated the PLUS (Picture Licensing Universal System) standards into its web-based asset management system Capture Office Online (COO). According to a press release issued by the company “This means that the PLUS media matrix can be used in COO to specify standardized usage categories – and then generate prices easily (and the unique PLUS price code) by using COO’s price factoring facility”.
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maXx images, a stock photography agency based in Vancouver, Canada, has announced that it now represents Eyecandy Images. Eyecandy Images is a boutique stock photography producer based in New York and London. “We focus on providing photography that cutting edge creatives have difficulty finding elsewhere”, stated Richeille Formento, Creative Director at Eyecandy Images, “ maXx images currently represents over 3 million rights managed and royalty free images.
PantherMedia, a Munich Germany based microstock company, has teamed up with FineArtPrint a German fine art printing company to allow Customers, photographers and other affiliates to open an online print store as an additional source of revenue with their photos, illustrations, and digital art. Customers will have the option to purchase images printed and framed on canvas, fine art paper or aluminium. For affiliates of PantherMedia the set-up and the administration of the shop are free of charge including up to 150 images (others are permitted only 100 images in the basic version of the shop).
Orphan Works is back. Last month, the U.S. Congress held Hearings, making clear that the wheels were again in motion. Last week, it became official when new versions of the Orphan Works Act of 2008 were introduced by both the House and Senate. SAA has published this document to provide an information resource for artists and other members of the visual arts community who will be affected by this legislation, sharing our perspective as the only association dedicated to the interests of professional photographers involved in stock image licensing.
MyLoupe.com, a Chicago-based stock image library, has announced that it haqs added nearly 13,000 royalty free photographs from Tetra Images. Tetra Images of Jersey City NJ is a production company founded in 2006 by stock photography veteran Tom Grill (a co-founder of Comstock). MyLoupe is a relative new-comer to the stock photo business launched by Brian Heston in April 2005 with approximately 50,000 images from about 300 contributors which has grown to nearly 400,000 images online from more than 1000 photographers and picture agencies.
Aflo Co. Ltd., one of Japan’s largest stock licensing companies has reached an agreement to acquire am-images of Tokyo, Japan. According to a press release issued by Aflo, am-images was dissolved on May 1st and its domestic and international operations will continue under the Aflo name.
The Frankfurt based image archive F1online has announced that it has added two new food photography collections to better serve clients. SOFOOD is a Royalty Free (RF) collection including more than 4,000 images and 23 VCD collections. Photocuisine is a Rights Managed (RM) collection with more than 8,000 images. The new collections strengthen to food offering represented in F1’s collection of more than 2 million images
The London based Bridgeman Art Library, a specialty library featuring fine art, history and culture related images, has announced that it has recruited Giovanni Cafagna to serve as the company’s new Sales and Marketing Manager. Cafagna is a seasoned executive who brings years of experience in the image library industry having served as the sales manager for Corbis UK, and later moving to Milan, to open Corbis Italia.
With the company poised to go private within this calendar quarter or early in the next, Getty Images released its results for the first three months of 2008. Unless the “merger” (as the company now refers to the transaction taking Getty private) is pushed off into the next quarter, these will be the last financial figures we see from the company. Assuming these are the last figures we’ll see, the company appears to be going out with a sigh. Currency neutral revenue grow by only 4.2% in quarter, while gross, operating and profit margins all deteriorated when compared to 1Q07.
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Val Gelineau, co-founder of the stock image subscription service PhotoSpin, offered 
Jack Hollingsworth’s comments, posted in this space a couple of days ago, provoked a number of comments. Val Gelineau, co-founder of the stock image subscription site, Photospin, offered his take on the challenges photographers face in today’s market. We thought Val’s advice worthy of posting here, where more of our readers are likely to see them. 
