When you license imagery for design use, do you do an in-depth read of the license terms and restrictions? Did you realize most Royalty Free agreements restrict the buyer to keeping the content available at one location only? This is known as “single seat” licensing. The content can be moved from one designer to another, but it is not supposed to be on a network, or otherwise available to multiple people at the same time. The “Multi-Seat Extended License” solves […]
Good Monday morning to you! Let’s talk licensing today. As I’ve discussed before, when you go to a stock photo agency and make a purchase, what you are really doing is buying a set of rights to use the image you’re interested in. The image data is part of the package, sure, but the rights you purchase are what let you use the content without getting into trouble with the copyright holder. So make sure you are purchasing the rights […]
Back on September 5th, iStockphoto revealed their new checkout process, which allows buyers to simply add content to a shopping cart, and then quickly check out with a credit card, instead of using a pre-paid credit plan. Yesterday, they added a great piece of interface functionality to the site.
As I detailed last week, iStockphoto announced a new purchase and checkout workflow for your stock content licensing needs. Well, the new software went into effect last night. Let’s take a look.
Once in a while, on the iStockphoto forums, a buyer will post questioning whether it is within the license restrictions to crop, tint or otherwise modify a stock image they have purchased. Certainly, in the case of iStockphoto at least, the answer is “Yes! Please do as you need to fit your project!”…
Yesterday, in the iStockphoto forums, iStock announced release of a new plugin for Photoshop that allows searching and licensing of imagery, directly in Photoshop and several other applicatins. We’ve partnered with Adobe to create the iStock Plug-in for their Creative Suite. Adobe CS users can use the plug-in to browse and download iStock directly from Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
New Google Image Search is both useful and problematic.
iStockphoto opens editorial usage collection for business.
Keeping out of trouble when licensing content.
iStockphoto.com is a Royalty Free stock photo site. It does not sell imagery Rights Managed. You may have heard these terms before, but what do they mean, and what is the difference between the two? To start, they both refer to licensing agreements. When you purchase an image at iStockphoto, what you are actually buying is a license that gives you certain rights to use a specific piece of content, here a digital image, movie clip, flash composition or audio […]
