... to Help Photographers Digitize, Keyword, License and Track Images to Create New Revenues - Partners to Offer Reciprocal Discounts on Services, including ImageSpan’s LicenseStream Creator, to Speed Image Processing, Licensing and Royalty Settlement
Sausalito, CA/Solon, OH, Jan. 13, 2009. ImageSpan Inc., which provides digital content licensing and royalty settlement services, and JaincoTech, a recognized leader in outsourced digital imaging services, today announced they are partnering to offer photographers premium services to help them digitize and keyword their photo archives. They also will leverage ImageSpan’s LicenseStream Creator services to protect, track, create new revenue streams and settle royalties for new and existing photos.
The partners also will offer reciprocal discounts to each others’ customers, making it easy and affordable for photographers to tap a powerful combination of services that free them to focus on producing innovative, powerful content and on getting that content to market fast. JaincoTech’s keywording solutions will help ImageSpan’s subscribers increase search accuracy for their customers. JaincoTech also will scan negatives, transparencies, prints, process raw digital files and upload processed high resolution images directly into LicenseStream Creator. ImageSpan through LicenseStream Creator will provide JaincoTech members with automated photo and video content licensing, a personalized stock gallery, content pricing and calculation, Web tracking and royalty settlement services.
“The partnership of ImageSpan and JaincoTech provides photographers everything they need to streamline their photo processing workflow and get their images into LicenseStream Creator quickly, so they can begin to track and make money from their work,” said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan. “ImageSpan’s LicenseStream Creator makes photos, videos and other content intelligent so it can move freely across the Web with defined ownership, rights and restrictions, enabling dynamic pricing based on use. With these combined services, photographers can cut content processing, licensing and royalty settlement costs while raising the visibility of their images to expand revenue opportunities.”
ImageSpan will offer discounts on services to JaincoTech customers. JaincoTech will provide their customers with a special promotion code, which they can use when registering for the LicenseStream Creator service at:
http://www.licensestream.com/licensestream/Registration/select.aspx.
JaincoTech also will offer discounts on a variety of services to customers who are LicenseStream Creator subscribers. An approved vendor to major image providers, including Getty Images, Corbis and Alamy, JaincoTech offers color correction, dust spotting and other digital services in addition to keywording, scanning, retouching and uploading services. ImageSpan customers may take advantage of the discounts by contacting JaincoTech directly for a quote. Retail pricing can be viewed at http://stockphotography.jaincotech.com/pricing.htm.
Customers can send images to JaincoTech for processing or ask JaincoTech to pull the images from the customer’s LicenseStream Creator account. JaincoTech will process the images per the customer’s instructions, and ship the processed images directly back to the customer or upload the finished images directly into the customer’s LicenseStream Creator account.
“As the demand for fresh content accelerates, this partnership offers professional photographers a powerful combination of innovative services to help them quickly and easily process, protect, find and monetize their images,” said Jazz Mandair, President, JaincoTech. “JaincoTech is extending its business by offering more choices to our customers in the photographic community and by partnering with ImageSpan to gain the benefits of its marketing-leading licensing and royalty settlement services.”
About ImageSpan
ImageSpan provides an enabling infrastructure for content licensing, helping content owners define rights and transact online. We automate today's manual licensing processes. ImageSpan is the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading licensing automation platform for all media types and businesses, from individual creators to enterprises, including global advertising, content production and content delivery companies. Enterprise partners using ImageSpan’s platform include Omnicom, Visible World and online advertising agencies. We offer a number of delivery options including deployment through Adobe software. Founded in 2003 and based in Sausalito, California, ImageSpan is a trusted solution provider and is the exclusive provider of license registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the multi-nation and multi-industry standard for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com or call (888) 921-1221
About JaincoTech
JaincoTech is headquartered in Solon, Ohio with production facilities in Solon, London UK, and Mumbai India, and a sales office in Kamakura, Japan. As a leading provider of services, JaincoTech has a dedicated team of imaging professionals that convert negatives, transparencies, slides, photographs and digital media into high-quality digital images for a number of industries including stock, education, historical, printing and publication. In addition, JaincoTech is a leading provider of digital photo restoration, enhancement, colorization and manipulation services for the consumer market. JaincoTech services are used by stock/wedding/studio photographers, stock agencies, archive libraries, press associations, retailers and the general public.
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