Jim Pickerell is reporting that the microstock virus is spreading to Getty Images proper. Well, he didn’t call it a virus, but it’s appropo none-the-less. By virus I mean the iStock pricing mentality. Virus Patient zero is the former head of iStockphoto – Bruce Livingstone. It was indicated when iStock was aquired that he was … Read more
Why, oh why, is iStockPhoto running “100% royalty” days? iStockPhoto forum member LeggNet wrote on Friday, August 24th, at 10:08PM:“I count the extra $75 I received today from “100% royalties day” as a nice special”According to PDNPulse, which reported on July 20th, that this would happen in the next two months, it apparently did, on … Read more
Things are hopping right along here at Photo Business News & Forum. Because a number of the recent postings have been rather lengthy, and caused other stories of interest to bump to the second page, I’ve taken a page (or, rather, a few pages) from the world of print, and ‘big league’ bloggers, and instituted … Read more
If you’re looking for a straight-up biographical sketch of Jonathan D. Klein, look elswhere. According to his employment agreement with Getty, he’s “is viewed as an expatriate on assignment” over here in the US of A, from the UK.Instead, JDK must be an ex-pat from an off-world colony, or a parallel universe, JDK’s World, if … Read more
What a difference a (business) day makes. As I wrote on Friday, Modern Postcard made a monumental error. Judging from e-mails I recieved alone (over 30) with photographers who sent e-mails to MP expressing their displeasure and cancellation of jobs in process, by yesterday, they had clearly heard the cacophony of voices. ASMP and APA … Read more
Ladies and gentlemen – Leopard is now available for pre-order by clicking this link-> Apple Mac OS X Version 10.5 Leopard. Now, if you’re like me, you’ll actually need the Leopard Family Pack just to stay legal! With all the excitement about it’s features in the past few months, I am very excited about it’s … Read more
So, you did the work, it looked great, and you delivered on time – oh, and sent the invoice! Silence.A call from you reminding them they owe you.Silence.Another call, and an e-mail.Silence.Now they’re not even taking your calls.Enter Dun & Bradstreet.(Continued after the Jump)Their Receivable Management Service is a great solution, and here’s abit from … Read more
This section of a newsletter (at right) landed in my inbox lat night – 8/24 at 5:00:26 PM EDT because I am a past Modern Postcard client, and then at 9:23:16 PM EDT, my inbox gets the following below: One of the sentences in it is:we stated to “skip the expensive photo shoot” by using … Read more
I happened to be headed to the Getty Images site at 8:14pm EST tonight, and found this: (click the graphic to see the screen grab full size (two screens long):All the sites – United Kingdom – gettyimages.co.uk; Deutschland – gettyimages.de; España – web gettyimages.es; France – gettyimages.fr; Italia -gettyimages.it; Japan – gettyimages.co.jp; and, Brasil – … Read more
Previously I wrote the introduction to Ed Greenbergs’ missive (When Your Agent is Not Your Friend), which talked about the agency-photographer relationship, and was critical of organizations like Corbis.ASMP wrote back in 2001, about the Conde Nast contract, in part: ” This contract gives Condé Nast the right to license virtually unlimited additional use, in … Read more
