Category: PLUS Coalition
The Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS Coalition) is a cooperative multi-industry initiative with the objective to clearly define and categorizes image usage around the world, from granting and acquiring licenses to tracking and managing them well into the future. Through standardized language and a machine-readable coding architecture, image licenses become more transparent, more fair, and much simpler for everyone. PLUS in no way addresses pricing or price negotiations. Nor will it create rigid forms or contracts. It is purely a system to define licensing language and provide a foundation for building and managing license data.
Key executives:
Jeffrey Burke - Chairman of the Board
Jeff Sedlik - President & CEO
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ACAP to adopt PLUS image licensing standards
ACAP (Automated Content Access Protocol), a new global non-proprietary machine-readable protocol that enables publishers to control how their online content is re-used, has announced that it has adopted the PLUS (Picture Licensing Universal System) image licensing protocols. In a recent press release ACAP stated plans to use the PLUS License Data Format and PLUS Media Matrix standards to supplement the existing ACAP vocabulary for communicating license-related information in a machine-readable form to web crawlers and other automated devices that use web content. ACAP has previously concentrated on text-based web resources, and its adoption of PLUS semantics is part of a planned extension of ACAP to meet publisher requirements to communicate more precise terms for use of photographic and other media resources by web crawlers.
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Digital Railroad incorporates PLUS licensing standards
Digital Railroad, a provider of online archiving and marketing services for photographers, has announced that it has been recognized by the PLUS (Picture Licensing Universal System) Coalition for integrating the PLUS licensing standards into the Digital Railroad platform. Digital Railroad currently serves 10 million professional photographers’ images, with nearly 3 million images available for licensing at its Marketplace. “Digital Railroad is a leading supporter of PLUS, and we’re extremely pleased with the company’s timely adoption of the PLUS image-licensing standards,” said Jeff Sedlik, CEO of the PLUS Coalition.
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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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PLUS expands board of directors
The Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS,) an international non-profit organization dedicated to creating standard image usage rights terms and definitions, has added a number of board positions in order to broaden the scope of its leadership to include various interested trade groups. The new board members include Clement Mok, designer, consultant and former creative director of Apple Computer, Inc., and Alan Newman, Chief of the Division of Imaging & Visual Services, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., among others.
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Obituary: Jane Kinne, friend
The photography community mourns the loss of Jane Kinne, who passed away early Saturday morning. Mrs. Kinne spent over fifty years as a photo agent, consultant to photographers and agencies, and an expert on copyright and other legal issues concerning images and image reproduction. Along the way, she brought her boundless and positive energy to bear on the creation and management of several photo industry trade associations. Most importantly, as a good friend and mentor, she gently but firmly coaxed from those of us lucky enough to know and work with her, an eagerness to bring our own positive energy to the business at hand.
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SAA release free RM price calculator
The Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) has released a rights managed price calculator and made it available to download from their web-site free of charge. The software streamlines the RM pricing system called PLUS Packs™ developed by the Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS.) The software, PLUS Packs™ Calculator is an open source tool SAA created to promote the adoption of the PLUS pricing standards by more licensors and licensees of RM stock imagery.
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The Next Steps for the PLUS Coalition: Interview with President & CEO Jeff Sedlik
The PLUS Coalition has just reached another significant milestone. Having earlier accomplished the monumental task of creating a comprehensive glossary of image licensing terms (the PLUS Picture Licensing Glossary has over 1500 terms) the Coalition has now released four additional international image licensing standards which, together with the glossary, comprise the Picture Licensing Universal System or “PLUS,” a system of standards that will simplify and facilitate image licensing for image creators, distributors and users alike.
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