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QuickLinks For 2006-04-30

• New book on licensing:
  Allworth Press has a new book out on licensing your images. Written by photographer Richard Weisgrau and and copyright and itellectual property lawyer Victor S. Perlman, Licensing Photography covers all aspects of rights management for the digital photographer.
  Jay Savage/TDPW.
  Tags: Licensing images photos pictures

QuickLinks For 2006-04-29

• Business 2.0 - Fotolia the eBay of Stock Photography:
  In the May 2006 issue of Business 2.0 the “What’s Next Section” Fotolia is as an eBay for stock photography. They recognize that Fotolia’s business model, and technology create an eBay like marketplace for photographers and artists to buy and sell stock photography. Fotolia hosts over 600,000 royalty free images.
  Fotolia blog.
  Tag: Fotolia

Google Finance And Web 2.0 In The Stock Photo Industry

Only 21 months ago, Jim Pickerell wrote about "Leading Stock Photo Sellers" (Story 564, July 2004, requires registration).

The story specifies numbers for the biggest 80 photo agencies worldwide. Some of these numbers are estimations. In the meantime, nine of the listed companies were sold to other stock agencies (that´s anyhow 11.25 percent). And, for example, JupiterImages was listed at that time as one of the mid-sized companies, with sales under $20m annually.

QuickLinks For 2006-04-28

• Corbis Outline Loses Two Top Executives:
  Bill Hannigan, the director of Corbis Outline, and his deputy, Elodie Mailliet, are leaving the company. Is Getty Images gaining ground in the celebrity photography market?
  For years the one distinct advantage the Corbis Corporation had over its bigger rival Getty Images was Corbis Outline, the high-end celebrity portraiture division that is the jewel in the crown of the Bill Gates-owned imagery company. Now that advantage appears to be shrinking, as Getty continues to build out Exclusive by Getty Images, its alternative to Corbis Outline, largely with former Corbis employees.
  Jay DeFoore/American PHOTO in a two-page report, quoting a memo from Corbis´ SVP, Images, Gary Shenk.
  Tag: Corbis

QuickLinks For 2006-04-27

• The future of digital imaging and DAM:
  DAM is an exploding field right now, and digital photographers are really just the leading edge of the crowd. Soon everyone will have hundreds of gigabytes or more of valuable data that they will need to manage for a lifetime. It will be interesting to see how the photographer tools will move into more mainstream. [...]
  In the words of the Firesign Theater, “everything you know is wrong.” It's a huge change in how you think about what you are doing as a photographer, from shooting, to image handling, to business practices.
  Adobe´s Jeff Tranberry interviews Peter Krogh, who is on the National Board of ASMP´s Directors, the founder of ASMP´s Digital Standards Committee (now UPDIG) and the author of The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for Photographers, after his DAM tour with ASMP.
  Tags: Digital imaging Digital Asset Managament UPDIG

A21 Releases Q4/2005 And Full Year 2005 Results

A21 (ATWO), the parent company of SuperStock, the Royalty-Free brand Purestock, the subscription brand PurestockX and Ingram Publishing/Ingram Stock, has released the Q4/2005 and the full year 2005 results.

Some highlights:

A21 Revenues (in T$)

YEAR	Q4/04	2004	Q1/05	Q2/05	Q3/05	Q4/05	2005
Total	2.100	7.475	2.313	2.327	2.064	2.859	9.563

QuickLinks For 2006-04-26

• ShutterStock annound today that ShutterStock Footage is up and running:
  ShutterStock Footage is a resource for royalty-free video footage. Pricing is determined by the resolution of the footage and starts at just $39 per clip. Each clip is available in three versions: "Original" refers to the format in which the video was received, and every clip on the site also comes in "Standard Definition" and "Low Res." Once a video clip has been purchased, the buyer can use the footage royalty-free, forever.
  More details.
  Tags: ShutterStock; ShutterStock Footage

QuickLinks For 2006-04-25

• OpenRAW releases initial results of the 2006 RAW Survey:
  Many photographers and archivists believe that camera manufacturers are making important decisions (continued proliferation of proprietary RAW formats, encryption of camera settings in RAW files, and the disappearance of camera brands from the market) about RAW image technology with little or no input from the people who buy and use their equipment, or who are involved in the preservation of photographic works.
  More details here.
  Tag: OpenRaw

Why Corbis Essentially Acquired eMotion

MarketWatch today in "Venture Capital firms turn to M&A more for exits":

Beringea [a $250 million transatlantic VC firm focused on the media sector] invested in eMotion in 2000, along with media giants such as TimeWarner.
The company burned through lots of cash and required more investment, which diluted Beringea's original stake.
Last summer, investment bankers were hired to arrange a sale and in July visual-solutions firm Corbis acquired eMotion for an undisclosed amount.
"The magic hadn't happened and we needed to move on," Bocan [investment director at Beringea] said.

Related: Corbis Acquires eMotion (July 28, 2005)

Tags: Corbis eMotion

QuickLinks For 2006-04-24

• The Hamburg-based photo agency plainpicture has signed two distribution deals to sell
  
  • over 8,000 images from the swedish photo agency Johnér (the company offers lifestyle, food, interior design, nature and business images)
  • RF images from the japanese agency Aflo (Aflofoto.com/Aflo.com; try out the link to the new english version)
  Tags: plainpicture Johnér Aflo