Flickr users to be paid for their pics!

by Stephen Withers

Thursday, 10 July 2008

Page 1 of 2 ! Selected Flickr users will be invited to commercially licence their photos through one of the world's leading providers of images and other visual content. Under the scheme, users who submit good quality images to Flickr may see them offered to commercial and editorial customers under the Flickr brand. Over the next few months, Getty Images will invite selected Flickr users to join the new program, which will see the company offer a Flickr branded collection to its creative, commercial and editorial customers. "Getty Images offers an unbeatable platform, licensing expertise, and a premier brand for Flickr members who want to bring their imagery to a worldwide customer base.," said Kakul Srivastava, Flickr's general manager. Photos will be selected by Getty Images editors for their relevance to clients' needs. The idea is to tap the "authenticity" of the best shots posted to Flickr, while providing users with a way of commercially exploiting their work. Flickr members receiving an invitation to join the project may accept or decline as they see fit. No information has been released about the compensation structure, but Getty Images will become the exclusive commercial rights manager for the selected photos. "We are excited and proud to be partnering with Flickr to offer our customers even more choice for their projects. Our customers will be able to select and use the best imagery from a fresh collection of high-quality images chosen by us from Flickr's diverse and prolific community," said Jonathan Klein, co-founder and CEO of Getty Images. "Flickr is the ideal partner as we continue to move the imagery industry forward by offering the broadest range of high quality digital content to our customers." CONTINUED << First page <   1 2 Next page > Last page - Post your comment >>

 

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