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QuickLinks For 2007-11-30

• More Commercial Creative Commons conundrums:
  The intent of Creative Commons is that the photographer can give his permission for commercial, or noncommercial, entities to use his or her work without compensation. It is not, however, intended to be a representation that all the commercial rights to use the photograph in any context have been cleared.
  In fact, with Creative Commons licenses that permit modification of the final work it´s hard to see how it would even be possible to certify in advance that any possible use was permitted under all laws anywhere in the world. [...]
  

QuickLinks For 2007-11-29, II

• Alternative Stock Sources:
  I´ve been with Getty since the Tony Stone days. I moved over to Tony Stony images from Comstock just before Getty purchased them.
  The stock industry has changed so much over the past ten years. It has gone from RM to RF to RR to the devil himself, Microstock. Many photographers, including myself, are not too keen on the super-cheap approach to image licenses.
  It is pretty wild that the guy who started iStockphoto is a failed photographer. Sad actually. Somewhere in all his millions, he must wonder what he has done. I wonder, truly wonder, if he realizes what he has destroyed.
  Not created, but destroyed.
  Photographer Cameron Davidson on his blog.
  [In the meantime the blog post was removed]

QuickLinks For 2007-11-29

• US to Show Evidence Dec. 9 on AP Photog Bilal Hussein:
  The U.S. military has set Dec. 9 as the date on which it will submit evidence against Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein to the Iraqi judiciary system, an American official said Thursday.
  The move would be the first legal step in initiating formal charges against photographer Bilal Hussein, who was seized in Ramadi on April 12, 2006.
  Hussein, 36, has been imprisoned without charge ever since.
  Throughout the more than 19 months of his captivity, the U.S. military has refused to specify what charges it might pursue against Hussein, who was part of the AP´s Pulitzer Prize-winning photo team in 2005.

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Reuters Media Summit 2007: Gary Shenk on Corbis, PicApp by PicScout, Bloggers, Veer and Profitability

       

Gary Shenk: "Corbis was already profitable"

Shenk said Corbis was already profitable before accounting for nonrecurring costs, including some severance expenses and investments in its technology infrastructure: "I have the moment planned when I can send Bill Gates the first dollar."

QuickLinks For 2007-11-28

• PhotoShelter Wants to Take On Getty Images:
  PhotoShelter was started as a storage service for photographers. That didn´t work out, so the company rebooted and reinvented itself as an image marketplace. "Photo editors are looking for new images, the kind you find on Flickr", says Emily Hickey, PhotoShelter’s VP of products.
  But there isn´t an easy way to buy from Flickr.
  [The] PhotoShelter [Collection] in contrast will pay out 70% to the photographers and keep 30% of what a photo fetches. Photographers like it - the company has attracted 6,000 photographer accounts, 200 buyer accounts and over 250,000 images.
  Unlike the iStockphoto and microstock agencies, PhotoShelter plans to sell its photos for, on average, between $100 and $200 a pop, and never any less than $50. "What we are doing is trying to commercialize the crowd-sourcing model for photos", says PhotoShelter´s co-founder & CEO Murabayashi.
  Om Malik (finally he is commenting on the stock photo industry).

QuickLinks For 2007-11-27

• A world without microstock impact? How surf photographer broke mould:
  
  Welcome to the wild world of Lucia Griggi, 25, the only female photographer in the UK whose work regularly appears in top surf magazines.
  But competition is fierce and rates low, so she has also taken on work for companies such as the fashion house Calvin Klein and beauty products firm Rimmel.
  There have been many ups, including the Maldives shoot where she had her own apartment and was looked after in style by the sponsors.
  But she admits that the itinerant lifestyle is tough on relationships, with several boyfriends having been left in her wake as she headed off to another contest.
  BBC News/Jonathan Morris. Griggi´s photo gallery.

QuickLinks For 2007-11-26, II

• AlamyMeasures (beta) is live!:
  AlamyMeasures provides information about how your pseudonyms and images have been performing in the search engine since March 2007 (this was when we started collecting data for this tool).
  This is a 'beta' version. Be careful not to jump to too many conclusions.
  James West.

QuickLinks For 2007-11-26

• AP CEO Says Military Making A Mockery Of American Principles:
  "We believe Bilal´s crime was taking photographs the U.S. government did not want its citizens to see. That he was part of a team of AP photographers who had just won a Pulitzer Prize for work in Iraq may have made Bilal even more of a marked man", Associated Press president and CEO Tom Curley wrote in an Op-Ed piece in Saturday´s Washington Post titled "Railroading A Journalist In Iraq".
  NPPA.
  Related:
  
  • "Part of the press is very clearly still being viewed as the 'enemy'."
    (Harper´s Magazine/Scott Horton, "U.S. Seeks to Prosecute Pulitzer Prize-Winning A.P. Photographer")