Terms of Service from several sites are examined for fairness.
How to use your iStockphoto Moo card code to get 10 free credits.
Thanks to everyone who stopped by to read my Vimeo rights grab post. Today was the biggest readership day ever for this blog. I bought an Entrepreneur magazine to read on the plane yesterday and discovered that Vimeo.com is owned by the guys who bring you CollegeHumor.com . Perhaps they see a funny side to this rights grab clause? In their forums, Vimeo posted some legal jumbo jumbo that they need such a ridiculously greedy clause to run their site. […]
In a recent thread on iStockphoto.com, a video contributor described how he had been denied iStockphoto’s video exclusivity contract because he currently has content (one video) on Vimeo.com, a video hosting site, sort of like youtube. People use Vimeo a lot for “how to’s” and “behind the scene demos” as well as experimental and final footage clips. The rejection for exclusivity from iStockphoto read: Exclusivity denied as member has files posted at http://www.vimeo.com/user###### which grants that company a royalty free […]
Have you heard of tineye.com ? It is to images, what Google is to words. Basically, it takes any image you feed it, either from your computer, or an online URL, and compares it to over a billion images it has found from scouring the internet. It has some proprietary technology, that creates a “fingerprint” from the image it finds, stores it, and then uses that to compare to what you are looking for. Now, on its front page, it […]
So, you may have noticed as part of last week’s iStockphoto.com big announcements, there was included a per credit price increase of $1 for a package of 10 credits, and a smaller amount as amount purchased increases. There was also the introduction of the new Value collection, with lower credits per image prices (to be introduced early 2009 with 200,000 images) and the Premiere Collection with offering the bestest of the bestest at a higher cost. Additionally, the Standard collection […]
A popular design element the last few years has been the “white card” style image. It is basically a person peering over or around a white card, normally a piece of foam core, or posterboard, adjusted to be perfectly white. This type of image can be used above or beside a newspaper advertisement, or a web page, etc. Anyplace you need a person to draw some attention to your design without getting in the way. It’s a fun way to […]
In photoshop, a path is a vector that you can use to select an area of the content you are working with. It isn’t a raster selection representation, like when you use an opacity mask on a layer (see below). The black/white opacity mask above represents the selection that the saturation layer is acting upon, and it is actually a black and white “image”, if you will. And that isn’t what a clipping path is. For the purposes of this […]
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 […]
Imagery sold at iStockphoto.com, and most other microstock agencies as well, is primarily intended for your to use in a promotional, commercial fashion. We, as contributors, are providing content to help you build and promote your business, or by extension, your client’s business. I’ll list some examples below. The iStockphoto.com license agreement, spells out pretty clearly what you can and can not do with content, but sometimes the legalese gets a little confusing. Let’s see if we can clear that […]
