Dreamstime opens door for un-released editorial imagery
Dreamstime has expanded its policy to accept non-model released and non-property released images that are directly pertinent to current events, news and political stories, and social and cultural scenes. The micro-stock company has created a new license for editorial use and encourages photographers to shoot current news events for submission to their data-base. Traditionally micro-stock companies have carefully managed their contributors submissions and avoided accepting imagery of recognizable people without model releases.
This new development at Dreamstime opens the door to editorial shooters. In addition, assuming Dreamstime can build a compelling archive of current events imagery, it opens the door for publishers of news to imagery to obtain less expensive images compared with traditional sources. “This exciting new image option for photographers, and all its users, frees Dreamstime photographers to cover world, national or local events of important newsworthy nature without being concerned with securing model releases”, Dreamstime co-founder and CEO, Serban Enache, announced. According to the company, the images submitted for its editorial archive will be available for use under customary editorial restraints and cannot be used for any other purpose other than to illustrate a truthful and literal story documenting or complimenting the facts surrounding that story or article.
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