USA Today, Google, sound death knell for Microstock
As image search improves, will people be less and less willing to pay for photos? YES.
Can I sell that photo?
Just because you can take it, it doesn't necessarily follow that you can sell it.
Spain's Costa Brava uses photograph from the Bahamas in ad campaign
Apparently there weren't any 'nice' photos of the Costa Brava available from Getty.
Should you sell the same stock photos in different places at different prices?
Why not? Airlines charge different prices for similar flights, why shouldn't photographers?
Copyright fight: Stephen Colbert takes on Lawrence Lessig
@ Photo Business News & Forum
Marketing your stock photography directly to clients
@ Photo Marketing Tips
Thoughts on photo use and licensing when pictures are used with & without permission
@ Photo Business News & Forum
Follows up on yesterday's link to a Guardian
Is a picture really worth £1,000?
Or, more to the point, if you steal a picture and get caught, should the owner of the picture be able to charge you what they want, or should you only have to pay whatever you think is reasonable? The Guardian obviously believes the latter, though they probably have a wee bit of a vested interest in not paying whatever a photo's owner wants.
Digital Railroad - 24 hours to shutdown
One of the leading stock photography providers/site hosts vanishes almost overnight. I had seriously considered signing up with them after Photoshelters' Marketplace was shut down, am really glad I didn't.
