We are living in a world of ever-changing and advancing technology. This can be confusing for a still image buyer because there are so many options to choose from in terms of footage formats. Melinda Hood, Archive Director at Global ImageWorks offers some guidelines: It is important to know what master format is needed by …
October 17, 2012
Photo pros are spoiled for choice next week in the Big Apple and with so much to choose from, do not let this panel presented by Visual Connections and tailored specifically for the buyer, slip under the radar. With an unparalleled panel of leading experts in copyright, digital media law, licensing, moving and still imagery, …
October 10, 2012
A common plaint by photographers, evinced increasingly over the last decade, as every young girl and their grandad ‘snaps’ away on their smart phones (although there is no ‘snap,’ really, if you think about it; there’s no ‘real’ shutter mechanism and it’s an artificial construct, a vestigial remnant of an earlier time), is that everyone …
The licensing of electronic rights is growing steadily and dare we say, will soon eclipse print rights. Web use, smart phones, tablets; there are so many ways to display and absorb content that the traditional may soon become ancillary. Rights-managed licensing for electronic rights is unclear and varies greatly from source to source. Trevillion Images …