QuickLinks For 2007-11-05

• Attributor Launches Service to Track Copyright Infringement Across the Web:
  Every media company on the planet knows that its articles, songs, photos, and videos are being copied and spread willy-nilly across the Web, but they don’t have a clue what to do about it. [...] A startup called Attributor says it can monitor the Web for copied content no matter where it may be, help publishers and media companies track it all, and help them decide what to do about it. [...]
  The enterprise version of its service launches today, although it has been testing it with Reuters and with AP for about six months.
  Erick Schonfeld/TechCrunch. -- Mochila, Pixsy, Voxant, ViewImages, Attributor and others: "Distribution and syndication models need to adapt to an environment in which social media is driving attention and traffic." (Cit.)
  Related:
  
  • Publishers See a Way to Track Their Content Across the Net (NYT today)
  • Reuters Chooses Attributor to Track Use of its Content (Sept. 17, 2007)

 

• The Top Camera Phone Images that Made the News:
  It’s not easy to sell camera phone photos. Quality is usually low, prices are often lower. Even Scoopt’s 10 biggest hits seem to have been largely shot on digital cameras rather than camera phones.
  Here are eight amateur shots that hit the headlines.
  Photopreneur, all images over there.

 

• British Professional Photography Awards 2007:
  Being the UK´s premier professional photographic Oscars and held each year, the Awards showcase the work of the UK´s most innovative and successful photographers.
  Mark Hughes wins the 2007 UK Event Photographer of the Year Award.
  EPZ.

 

• Angry Bees:
  Getty Images has stuck its finger in a beehive. But does it care? Fourteen photography trade and industry groups have signed a letter protesting Getty´s new $49 Web use pricing. [...]
  Corporate executives faced with numbers like that tend to stop looking at the broader view. They won´t consider what they might be doing to revenue "down the road." They need to produce results for the stockholders right bloody now. Situations like that tend to make executives consider "vision" as a luxury that can wait until tomorrow.
  The problem is that their tomorrow is only as bright as that of their contributors. Will Getty´s shooters continue to ride what has become a very leaky boat?
  Mark Loundy/The DigitalJournalist, new November 2007 issue.