Picscout Blog » image tracking http://blog.picscout.com The Leader in Image Copyright Solutions Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:11:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 See you at Cepic 2009 http://blog.picscout.com/2009/06/01/see-you-at-cepic-2009/ http://blog.picscout.com/2009/06/01/see-you-at-cepic-2009/#comments Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:46:08 +0000 offirg http://blog.picscout.com/?p=180 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.

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]]> http://blog.picscout.com/2009/06/01/see-you-at-cepic-2009/feed/ 0 PicScout applauds Google for its new Similar Images Search! http://blog.picscout.com/2009/05/04/picscout-applauds-google-for-its-new-similar-images-search/ http://blog.picscout.com/2009/05/04/picscout-applauds-google-for-its-new-similar-images-search/#comments Mon, 04 May 2009 08:43:18 +0000 admin http://www.picscout.com/WordpressTest/?p=82 What a thrill it is to see Google’s recent announcement of its new “similar image” search! One couldn’t ask for better publicity. Free, too! First, it further validates the huge interest people have in finding and using images online, either for personal or business uses. When people search for images, they are most likely looking to use them for some purpose that very well may require licensing. If Google is helping people do that faster, all the better!

While Picscout has been a leading innovator in image-recognition technology, its business is not to help people find images. It’s to help them manage their copyrights. If you’re thinking that you could use Google’s new image-search to do that on your own, consider these points:

FINDING YOUR IMAGES

  • First you have to get Google image search to come up with one of your images in a search (not as easy as it looks), before you can even start with a “similar” search. And then your luck goes downhill faster. As reported by Plagiarism Today, the search isn’t really all that good. But, that’s almost beside the point. Even if it were perfect at finding exact matches, you have to do this for every image you own, one by one. Do you really have that much time on your hands?
  • Picscout tracks entire collections of works… Every day.

FINDING “RELEVANT” USAGES

  • Do you know the difference between a “relevant” use of your images and a big waste of time?
  • Picscout does. And we deliver detailed reports that include the name of the company, a screenshot of the web page that used your image, contact information, and more.

RESOLUTIONS

  • Do you know what to do if you find a match? Most people have no expertise or wherewithal to resolve usage disputes. If you try to contact the company yourself, chances are that you’ll be either ignored or treated poorly. And you’ll discover this only after weeks or months of trying.
  • Picscout works with a select network of specially qualified copyright lawyers that can not only handle your case professionally with the other party, saving you valuable time, but also come up with a satisfactory resolution that doesn’t alienate business relationships.

Sure, there are ways to “find” your images, ranging from dumb luck to brute force searching. But that doesn’t mean a whole lot if nothing is happening. In the end, Picscout is far more than just a great image-recognition tech company. We provide full-service solutions that actually return results.

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]]> http://blog.picscout.com/2009/05/04/picscout-applauds-google-for-its-new-similar-images-search/feed/ 0 Jeff Downey, Director of Sales and Business Development to Speak at Paca’s Best Practices Symposium http://blog.picscout.com/2009/04/16/jeff-downey-director-of-sales-and-business-development-to-speak-at-pacas-best-practices-symposium/ http://blog.picscout.com/2009/04/16/jeff-downey-director-of-sales-and-business-development-to-speak-at-pacas-best-practices-symposium/#comments Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:00:55 +0000 admin http://www.picscout.com/WordpressTest/?p=93 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.

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]]> http://blog.picscout.com/2009/04/16/jeff-downey-director-of-sales-and-business-development-to-speak-at-pacas-best-practices-symposium/feed/ 0 PicScout and ImageSpan Team to Deliver Best-in-Class Image Licensing and Tracking Solution http://blog.picscout.com/2009/04/02/picscout-and-imagespan-team-to-deliver-best-in-class-image-licensing-and-tracking-solution/ http://blog.picscout.com/2009/04/02/picscout-and-imagespan-team-to-deliver-best-in-class-image-licensing-and-tracking-solution/#comments Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:58:51 +0000 admin http://www.picscout.com/WordpressTest/?p=89 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

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]]> http://blog.picscout.com/2009/04/02/picscout-and-imagespan-team-to-deliver-best-in-class-image-licensing-and-tracking-solution/feed/ 0 SuperStock Chooses PicScout’s Image Tracker Solution http://blog.picscout.com/2009/03/24/superstock-chooses-picscouts-image-tracker-solution/ http://blog.picscout.com/2009/03/24/superstock-chooses-picscouts-image-tracker-solution/#comments Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:12:27 +0000 admin http://www.afri-canweb.com/clients/picscout/wordpress/?p=4 We are happy to announce that SuperStock, under the new ownership of RGB Ventures LLC, has chosen PicScout‘s market leading image tracking solution, Image TrackerTM, to protect their artists rights and to be part of PicScout’s Image Registry solution.

Read the full Press Release on our NEW Corporate website.

Offir Gutelzon, CEO, PicScout

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]]> http://blog.picscout.com/2009/03/24/superstock-chooses-picscouts-image-tracker-solution/feed/ 0 PicScout Launches a New Website http://blog.picscout.com/2009/03/22/picscout-launches-a-new-website/ http://blog.picscout.com/2009/03/22/picscout-launches-a-new-website/#comments Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:59:59 +0000 admin http://www.afri-canweb.com/clients/picscout/wordpress/?p=5 www.picscout.comPicScout is launching a new corporate website today. The new site has been redesigned with a fresh new look and has been updated with information about the latest products and services including the new Image Registry Solution.

“Additionally, our new site will use a customer feedback tool called Kampyle which helps us analyze and manage our customer feedback. This is one of the many tools that we are using to strengthen our commitment to exemplary customer service while improving our technology and algorithms to create an open image recognition platform”,says Offir Gutelzon, CEO and co-founder, PicScout.

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