Update for UPDIG the Universal Photographic Digital Imaging Guidelines
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outTAKES NEWS leadership on issues affecting the PLUS License Generator, LibreDigital? If HarperCollins is stock photographers. As 2006 SAA License Information Panels, License eventually getting profit from there, Update for UPDIG president David Sanger said, “The Embedder & Decoder, Artist & will they cut sweetheart deals to The Universal Photographic Digital principles of SAA include fair busi- Licensor Registry and the License pay a premium for the service Imaging Guidelines (UPDIG) have ness practices, an equitable split of Registry, all launching in 2007. because they know the money still been updated and revised and revenue, shared risk and respon- To learn more about joining the goes back into their pockets even can be found at UPDIG.org. A sibility, mutual trust and respect, PLUS Coalition and using the PLUS though that amount won’t be part free, downloadable PDF version is and recognition of the rights of the standards, visit the PLUS website at of royalty calculations? And exactly available. creator. These have not changed useplus.org. how much do you make off elec- and they transcend any specific tronic distribution? The publishing The 12 guidelines are organized licensing model. We believe that the Anonymous is Jahangir Razmi world is changing, and now is the into a Quick Guide (executive same principles should apply to all An Iranian photographer, whose time to carefully negotiate what summary) and a Complete Guide. stock photography contracts.” The image of an execution won a 1980 you’ll allow companies to do with The aim is to clarify the issues SAA website address is stockartist- Pulitzer Prize, has been recog- your intellectual property.— From affecting accurate reproduction and salliance.org. nized after more than 25 years Contracts Watch, Issue 93 (vol. 14, management of digital image of anonymity. This was the only #1), published by The American Soci- files. Although the guidelines were Licensing Standards time in the Pulitzer history that an ety Of Journalists and Authors, January created from a photographer’s The Picture Licensing Universal anonymous award was given. The 15, 2007 perspective, the UPDIG group has System (PLUS) standards that image showed a line of 11 blind- worked hard to incorporate the simplify the process of grant- folded men executed by a firing Gas Reduced concerns of everyone involved in ing, obtaining and managing the squad in 1979 after Islamic radicals Sine 2004, online photographic the process of reproducing permissions necessary to use overthrew the Shah of Iran. It was agency Alamy has been working to digital images. photographs and illustrations have published in Iranian newspaper offset some of the effects of the been approved and released by the Ettela’at and later distributed by greenhouse gases released into The guidelines have three primary PLUS Coalition, a global non-profit UPI. Jahangir Razmi’s identity was the atmosphere through air travel goals: organization with widespread par- revealed with his cooperation in and office electricity use. In 2005 it • Digital images should look the ticipation by trade associations and the Wall Street Journal late last year offset its emissions with contribu- same as they transfer between stakeholders from the photography, and included other images from tions to Climate Care, and in 2005 devices, platforms and vendors. illustration, advertising, design and the execution. The Pulitzer award, it used the offsets to pay for a • Digital images should be pre- publishing industries. Officially and $10,000, will be presented to project to supply solar powered pared in the correct resolution, at launched in a special multi-industry Razmi in New York on May 21, the electric lanterns to low income the correct size, for the device(s) event at the annual 2006 PhotoPlus day the 2007 Pulitzer winners are families in Kerala, India. Wanting to on which they will be viewed or Expo trade show in New York, the honored at Columbia University. make a bigger commitment, Alamy printed. PLUS standards were established recently launched a number of new • Digital images should have by the largest collaborative effort HC Goes TCP/IP initiatives to help achieve its goal metadata embedded that conforms in the history of image licensing, HarperCollins announced that it’s of making the company carbon- to the IPTC standards, making culminating three years of intensive taking an equity stake in Libre- neutral: the images searchable, providing standards development. For the Digital. If you haven’t heard of the • $100,000 start-up funding for usage and contact information, and first time, publishers, designers and latter, it develops systems to “store, greenhouse gas-saving projects in stating their creators or copyright advertising agency art buyers can control and display your digitized Kerala, India. owners. use universal terminology and stan- content.” (See libredigital.com/ • Further investment in video- dardized codes to simplify the pro- warehouse/ for more info.) The conferencing technology to reduce SAA Mission Expands cess of obtaining and managing im- News Corp.-owned book publisher travel between Alamy offices in The Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) age licenses. “The PLUS standards apparently has an interest in get- India and the U.K. membership accepted amend- facilitate efficient communication ting books online and influencing • Greenhouse gas emission ments to the association’s bylaws, and commerce in an increasingly how book publishers do digital reduction targets to be included in proposed by its Board of Directors, global image licensing marketplace,” content. If you’re an author, you the objectives of managers where to expand SAA’s mission to ad- says Jeff Sedlik, president and CEO had also best take interest because relevant. dress the business interests of all of the PLUS Coalition. Supplement- this is going to affect you. Have • Double offsets—restarting professional stock photographers ing last year’s release of the PLUS you checked your contract lately? contributions to third party offset worldwide. The SAA mission was Picture Licensing Glossary, the Chances are that you’ve given organizations. previously limited solely to the PLUS Coalition has released four your publisher some degree of • Sourcing electricity from renew- business of licensing rights-man- additional licensing standards: The electronic rights. If you have, then able sources where possible. aged images. SAA continues to PLUS Media Matrix, PLUS Packs, this stirs up many questions. What CEO James West said, “It is impor- advocate that the best business PLUS-ID System, and PLUS License happens if publishers decide to tant to recognize the relationship models for photographers are ones Data Format. The PLUS standards push more for internet sales? What between economic growth and that manage usage and protect will appear in software com- will they actually sell? How much environmental impact. We want to their intellectual property, and it monly used to create, edit, manage, will they charge? What percentage be transparent about our emissions will continue to provide multifac- browse, distribute and license im- will go to a company like News- and what we are doing to tackle eted support for rights-managed ages. Additional PLUS components Stand, which owns (now most of) the problem.” licensing as well as industry-wide now under development include The Picture Professional Alamy Adds History sources and contemporary images and post-impressionism, Islamic points to charity or to get discounts Alamy has extended the range of that have never before been avail- art, medieval and renaissance art, off future purchases from Image its archival material by adding the able in high-quality digital format. musical instruments, drawings, Source Direct.” For more informa- World History Archive to its his- The Smithsonian Institution chose prints, antiques, photography, and tion, visit imagesource.com/wish. torical collections. The World His- to partner with Corbis because modern and contemporary art. tory Archive images span centuries, of its strong relationships with The arrangement initially involves Real People, Real Concepts documenting all periods from the editorial and commercial clients more than 2,000 images from New England production company Medieval, Victorian and Elizabethan and reputation for high quality and the museum’s collection. The Art Huntstock, huntstock.com, launched to more contemporary times. service. The first of the Smithson- Resource website address is artres. a new wholly owned collection of A collection of woodcuts, litho- ian images were recently added to com. lifestyle images for worldwide dis- graphs and photographers focus on Corbis.com with plans to increase tribution in January. Owned by Pat the numbers significantly by the Manage This and Mark Hunt, who have 30 years end of 2007. Imagery available in- In December, Extensis launched of experience in the photography cludes Charles E. “Chuck” Yeager’s Manage This, a corporate blog that and stock industry, the growing Bell X-1, Alexander Graham Bell’s includes tidbits about Extensis collection offers Real People, Real invention, the telephone, and the products and employees and inspi- Concepts by “representing all types 45.52-carat Hope Diamond. ration for the creative profession- and all ethnicities enjoying their al. It also includes links to industry daily lives.” Categories include busi- TopFoto & AA resources and a unique perspec- ness, boomers, lifestyles, children, TopFoto announced in January tive on the