Posts Tagged ‘image recognition’

Monday, October 26th, 2009

The Gift of Renewed Creative Inspiration and Increase Productivity Make the ImageExchange Add-on the Creative Professionals New BFF

Creative Professionals and designers can now seek, search, or stumble upon the best Internet-based images they can find to enhance their work and gain more productive time in their day. Through research, and our own in depth conversations with Creative Pros, we learned that, until now, the Internet has been both friend and foe.

With the recent introduction of ImageIRC registry, Creative Pros can see the image information they have always needed — the who, what, where and how to acquire image rights — in one click of the mouse. Tens of millions of images are now available.

After downloading the free ImageExchange add-on, creative professionals will see a new Internet — a world of images where they see metadata such as licensor, image type, and photographer associated every time they go online.  Gone are the days when Creative Pros dare only use the open Internet for creative inspiration — now Google, Yahoo, Bing — actually any web page, can serve as creative inspiration as well as a productivity enhancer. Creative Professionals can use images found online immediately and with confidence.

The ImageExchange add-on is free and easy to use — just request your invitation to be one of the first to use it and begin changing your work life!

We welcome your comments and insights about the ImageExchange plug-in.  Use the contact form
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Best Regards,
Offir Gutelzon, CEO,
PicScout
Twitter: @offirg or @picscout

Thursday, July 9th, 2009

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 being reactive to ensure no one abuses copyrights. While our data indicates that one image is licensed for every nine that are used without a license, we would like to believe that some of these infringements are unintentional. That with a simple mechanism, someone who finds an image using our leading image recognition technology, could be easily directed to a place where they can license it. It’s an exciting vision…it’s a big vision…and one that we shared online over two months ago (http://www.slideshare.net/PicScout/picscout-image-registry-1601481).

We believe it is in the interest of photographers, stock agencies and solution providers such as PicScout to find ways to leverage the internet better than we are today to drive more proactive licensing revenue, which should in turn help reduce infringements. We look forward to being a part of it.

Offir Gutelzon
CEO
PicScout

Monday, June 1st, 2009

See you at Cepic 2009

As a reminder, we are thrilled to be attending CEPIC and speak on two panels - both will be great forums for discussion on important topics that impact us all.

We’ll speak on two panels : CEPIC’s Orphan Works in Practice Panel (June 5, 11:15 AM) and MILE’s Know Your Rights Conference (June 3, 3:00 PM) where we and our German legal partner, Marc Hügel, will present PicScout’s Image Tracker service. We invite everyone to come and listen how PicScout is helping and will continue to help the photo industry.

We look forward to seeing you at CEPIC.

Thursday, April 16th, 2009

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 this session which will take place on Saturday, April 18, 2009, at 4 PM at the Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel.  Chicago is Jeff’s hometown and he is a White Sox fan in case you wondered.

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

PicScout and ImageSpan Team to Deliver Best-in-Class Image Licensing and Tracking Solution

ImageSpan Inc., the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading licensing and royalty payment automation platform for all media , and PicScout, are partnering to deliver a best-in-class image licensing and tracking service to help LicenseStream subscribers immediately monetize content found by PicScout and obtain more value from that content as it gets published across the Web. The announcement was made at the Web 2.0 Expo.

Together, ImageSpan and PicScout also are addressing a huge and growing problem: online image theft. Lost revenues from unauthorized uses of images online are estimated at upwards of $65 million, according to a comprehensive study by the Stock Artists Alliance. By combining PicScout’s market-leading image tracking and recognition registry services with ImageSpan’s Web-based LicenseStream licensing and royalty settlement service, the partners can provide LicenseStream subscribers with a view into where and how their images are being used online.  The exclusive three-year agreement calls for PicScout to be the exclusive image tracking service and image registry service for all content provided to it by ImageSpan and covers mutual customers in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

“PicScout is proud to partner with ImageSpan and to combine our complementary services: the ImageSpan LicenseStream service and PicScout’s Image Tracker,” said Offir Gutelzon, CEO and co-founder of PicScout. “Image Tracker’s reports will enable both photographers and enterprises to create more sales opportunities which can be monetized by the LicenseStream remedy tools.  In addition, LicenseStream customers will have access to our Image Registry which solves the problem of unidentified copyrighted images or orphan works.”

Please see the entire PR on our website: read more

Friday, March 6th, 2009

PicScout at the Digital Innovation Summit in Berlin March 2009

Offir speaking at the Digital Innovators Summit, Berlin, March 2009I just came back from the Digital Innovation Summit in Berlin organized by VDZ where PicScout was invited to speak about its leading image tracking service as part of the Search and Content Session .

VDZ is a German organization of 400 publishers together producing more than 3,000 titles. The Israel Export & International Cooperation Institute also sponsored the event and helped scout out innovative Israeli companies in the digital media and software space.

The summit hosted young and innovative companies from Israel and USA among of them were companies like Kaltura, Clicktale, Tvinchi, Dapper and PicScout which showecased their company and solutions for the digital media market.

I was amazed to see how the traditional print industry is seeking for help and innovation in order to leverage their brand into the digital world. We were sharing how their evolution to online from print was similar to the evolution stock agencies had moving from 35mm to e-commerce websites.

Next month I will speak at the American Bar Association’s Annual Intellectual Property Law Conference which will discuss how emerging technologies, like the PicScout’s ImageTracker, can solve problems relating to “orphan works”.

Offir Gutelzon

(Picture from Raphael Mizrahi’s Facebook Album)