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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.
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.”
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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
PicScout 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.
I 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
