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McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Pearson, adopt PLUS Image Licensing Standards
The Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS,) an international non-profit organization dedicated to creating standard image usage rights terms and definitions, has announced that tree major publisher have announced that they will adopt the PLUS Picture Licensing Glossary definitions in their contracts. The three publishers, McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Pearson, have also committed to encouraging image suppliers to begin embedding PLUS license metadata in all images within one year. “The PLUS standards benefit publishers and their suppliers by simplifying and clarifying the process of licensing and managing images. We are in the process of implementing PLUS standards, and we would find it very useful for our image suppliers to adopt PLUS standards as well.” stated Bonnie Beacher, Senior Director of Contracts, Copyrights and Permissions at McGraw-Hill Education.
“We are very pleased that these major publishers – the largest image licensees in the industry – are aligned in their support of the PLUS standards,” said Maria Kessler, President of the Picture Archive Association of America.
Jeff Sedlik, President & CEO of the PLUS Coalition, said “The PLUS standards will allow publishers to leverage embedded license metadata to increase automation and more efficiently manage images in their digital asset management systems.”
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