Welcome to our newly-visioned PicScout blog — your source for news about PicScout's ImageIRCTM product innovations, current online copyright trends and Getty Images' advocacy efforts.
Imagesphere Summit 2012 Recap
Recently, Luminate hosted their Imagesphere Summit, a unique event that discussed the emerging opportunities around the boom in images. The event brought together people from the technology, media and publishing sectors to share their insights on the ever-increasing role images play in the success of web experiences. The message from the event was clear: Images...
ImageIRC reaches the 100 million image mark
ImageIRC Now Ensures That More Than 100 Million Images Get Their Credit! We are proud to announce that the ImageIRC registry now includes more than 100 million images from over 200 image partners. These images include content from numerous collections and partners, including a significant portion of new content from Getty Images. With this new...
Luminance 2012 Recap
We want to congratulate the friendly folks at Photoshelter for putting on an amazing conference last week. Their Luminance conference brought together a diverse collection of luminaries (yes, pun intended!) to discuss the intersections between technology, business, photography and visual culture. Sounds heavy? To a degree it was. Fortunately, their speakers delivered talks that informed,...
Elaborating on the ImageIRC Post-Usage billing Service
Earlier this week, Fred Wilson of AVC wrote a thought-provoking post that calls for “Fast, Fair, and Frictionless Content Licensing On The Internet” to address the complexities of image licensing and compensation within image-rich platforms. In this post, Fred mentions the ImageIRC and how it can facilitate “instantaneous real-time self service licensing on the Internet.”...
Announcing the ImageIRC Post-Usage Billing Service!
Today, we are excited to announce the first implementation of the ImageIRC Post-Usage-Billing Service. The ImageIRC Post-Usage Billing Service is a service that facilitates credit and compensation of professional imagery shared on social image-sharing platforms. This new solution will ensure that professional imagery shared by platform users is properly credited and licensed. We’re excited about...
Marc Wendell, ImageIRC Product Manager
Hello everyone – Marc Wendell here. I’m excited to be introducing myself as the new ImageIRC Product Manager! In my new role, I will be working with the PicScout community to expand the ImageIRC’s scope of services. Stay tuned, because we’ll soon be announcing a number of new products, as well as enhancements to ImageIRC’s...
PicScout Acquired by Getty Images
From our humble beginning, where Eyal and I had an idea for how to use technology to protect images and support copyright enforcement in 2002, to where we are today, achieved through the contributions of bright and committed team members and customers, our company evolved into the market standard for both protection and promotion of...
Searching for Images on Safari and Chrome Just Got Easier
Today was an exciting day for the PicScout team. We started off the day by hosting a successful webinar on image copyright with Noam Galai, who recounted the fascinating story of how his self-portraits were taken from his Flickr account and used in more than 40 countries around the world. In addition, copyright attorney John...
The Power of Guerilla Marketing
Macworld 2011 was taken over by a sea of pink last Thursday and Friday as PicScout set out to spread the word about ImageExchange among the 40,000 Mac enthusiasts who registered for the 4-day conference and trade show. Guerilla marketing works well when you can combine user enthusiasm with a legitimate reason for being at...
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