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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...
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...
ImageExchange Powers Creative Economy Online
There’s an “unintended Napster effect” taking place today in the world of digital publishing. With the advent of the iPad and other digital devices, software solutions enabling Web 2.0 “presto publishing,” and the proliferation of social networking sites like Facebook, where everyone shares everything, unintended use of rights-protected images is running rampant. Case in point:...
Hawaiian Art Network Sustains Global Business with ImageTracker™
Hawaiian Art Network first began using ImageTracker in November 2009, when infringements became an intolerable problem. “While everyone in the network was enthusiastic about the popularity of the [Hawaiian Art Network] websites, they also began to fear the accelerating infringements,” said Glen Carner, Member, Hawaiian Art Network. “The more popular our sites became, the more...
Photographers — Learn How to Sell Your Images Anywhere Online through PhotoShelter in partnership with PicScout — Free Webinar, Tuesday, 2/23 at 3 pm ET
All Questions Answered by PhotoShelter and PicScout to equip photographers’ images for immediate sale-Register to attend! REMINDER: PicScout and PhotoShelter will hold a special webinar just for photographers on Tuesday February 23, Noon pacific/3:00 pm eastern. Photographers will see first-hand how they can be part of the new image economy that gives credit and promotes...
Pickerell makes good points on using tech like PicScout to proactively stem copyright abuse
In a story on Selling Stock today entitled “Copyright Enforcement: Shifting from Prosecution to Buyer Acquisition,” Jim Pickerell raised an important topic. As PicScout was mentioned in the article, I wanted to take a moment to briefly comment. At PicScout, we completely agree that it is important to be proactive while at the same time...
Jeff Downey, Director of Sales and Business Development to Speak at Paca’s Best Practices Symposium
PicScout has been invited to speak at PACA’s Best Practices Symposium in a session entitled “Where did this image come from?”. This panel will discuss techniques buyers can use to track down images and what agencies can do to make it easier. Jeff Downey, Director of Sales and Business Development at PicScout, will present in...