I have certainly been busy lately, revisiting the processing and keywording of many of my stock images series, for a transition away from their current home and into some new digs. That’s just several weeks away and thanks to everyone for their support and suggestions. However, I’ve got a great new series I can’t wait to turn loose, so today I thought I’d post a few behind the scenes shots from this series “At the Airport”.
About a year or so ago, Pinterest and copyright issues became a topic of discussion. If you need more details on how Pinterest works and how it affects the photographer or stock contributor, you can read the aforementioned linked post. Long story short, a user “pins” (copies) any image they find on the internet to the Pinterest servers, for viewing, sharing and hotlinking by the site’s users. Yesterday, iStockphoto announced that they are going to officially maintain an active presence […]
I just wanted to thank everyone for the supportive posts and words dealing with my announcement yesterday. It’s great to see that there’s still a community out there. If you’ve emailed or facebook’ed (?) a direct message, I’m working through them all, trying not to miss anything. If I take more than a few days, though, try me again 🙂 .
Let’s get the important news out of the way first. On Friday, February 8th, I was given notice by Getty Images that they were terminating our “relationship” and my account at iStockphoto would be closed in 30 days. Well, that was a great way to end the week, eh? What ?!? Yes, honestly I was surprised and caught off guard as well. As one of the top 5 contributors at iStockphoto, having been there since August of 2004, with over […]
In all the discussion regarding the current Getty Images/Google Apps situation, a subsidiary of Getty Images, PicScout and their ImageIRC program has come up several times. People are wondering whether this has anything to do with the Google licensing scheme, that PicScout is, in some way, protecting our IP by their “fingerprinting” of images, or that Getty is going to use the ImageIRC program as some way to go after people who use content outside of the Apps program, which, […]
Well, Happy 2013. The new year brings with it a situation that has iStockphoto contributors concerned, and actually this affects not just us, but stock contributors across the spectrum, including “traditional” shooters.
