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Capture One explains its confusing new “Loyalty Program” and it’s not amazing but it’s not terrible, either

Jan 19, 2023 by John Aldred 4 Comments
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In December, Capture One announced that they were ditching their annual release cycle, changing its perpetual license model and switching primarily to a subscription model with more frequent releases. It’s a good compromise between only offering infrequent updates vs the lifelong subscription model of companies like Adobe and Autodesk. Capture One was offering the best of both worlds.

The only question that remained was over the announced “Loyalty Program” (or “Loyalty Scheme”, as it was called then) for Capture One users. The details hadn’t been published yet, although we knew it would be replacing the standard upgrade pricing system available under previous versions. Well, now, Capture One has published exactly what it all means and how it impacts you, the user.

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Capture One is changing its perpetual license and ditches annual release cycle but it’s not as bad as it sounds

Dec 7, 2022 by John Aldred 1 Comment
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Capture One has sent out an email to customers stating that changes are coming to its perpetual license model. It’s doing a bit of an Adobe and switching over to a primarily subscription-based approach, with new features being added to the application as they’re developed and become available rather than doing a major update each year. This has a few implications for existing perpetual license holders, but it’s not really a bad thing.

The new method of updating the application regularly with new features and there no longer being an annual release cycle means that we won’t see a Capture One 24 being released next year. Perpetual licenses will not see new features coming, either, although they will receive bug fixes. Upgrade pricing is also going to be disappearing, too, in favourite of a mysterious “loyalty scheme” model.

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Stock photos of AI-generated humans are available for licensing for the first time

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Jan 6, 2022 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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Images of AI-generated humans aren’t exactly a new concept. But now, they’re available for licensing for the first time ever. VAIsual and PantherMedia have announced the availability to legally license 100% synthetically generated stock images.

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Don’t sell photos with “I LOVE NY” logo in them or New York state will sue you

Apr 23, 2021 by Dunja Djudjic 4 Comments
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Even if you don’t live in New York, even in the USA, you’ve seen the iconic “I ❤ NY” logo on various objects. And if you take a photo of it and want to sell it, beware – the state of New York might sue you.

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Google Images now officially show your photos with “Licensable” badge so it’s easier to sell them

Sep 1, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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Earlier this month, Google announced “Licensable” tag that would be placed on thumbnails in Google Images. The feature is now officially out, and it could help all photographers sell their work or stock photos much easier.

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Google adds “Licensable” tag to images to help photographers sell them

Aug 18, 2020 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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Google is launching a new feature that will make photographers really happy. When you specify license information for your photos, they will have the “Licensable” badge on the thumbnails in Google Images. This way, people will know that the image is available for licensing (and no, it’s not free just because it’s on Google). There will also be a link to license details in the Image Viewer, so people can learn how they can buy and use your photo.

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Getty Images sued again, accused of profiting from public domain images

Apr 3, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic Add Comment
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Dallas-based digital marketing company CixxFive Concepts has recently filed a class action lawsuit against Getty Images. The lawsuit claims that Getty is allegedly licensing images that are in the public domain. But in addition to that, CixxFive Concepts also accuses Getty of using all kinds of “deceptive techniques” to make customers think that the company is the legal copyright holder.

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Hipster upset his photo was used to claim all hipsters look alike – discovers photo was a different hipster

Mar 8, 2019 by Dunja Djudjic 30 Comments
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When he recognized himself in a photo following an article about “all hipsters looking the same,” a hipster got furious. He sent an angry email to MIT Technology Review, but little did he know that he would only prove the theory of the article. When the MIT journal’s editors checked the image license, it turned out that the photo showed a totally different hipster.

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GoPro licenses out its camera tech to third parties

Mar 26, 2018 by John Aldred Add Comment
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Well, it seems that GoPro may be struggling even more than many of us thought. Despite reporting the first profit in 2 years at the end of 2017, GoPro followed up by laying off 300 staff and getting out of the drone business for good. Now they’re at the point where of licensing out their proprietary tech to third parties.

It might come as a bit of a sad but good move for the company’s future. Everybody wants to see GoPro succeed and again become the company they once were,  but things haven’t been looking great. Now, a new deal with Jabil Inc. may help them to keep the cash coming in and keep creating great action camera tech.

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India requires license for photographers so they don’t “pester” visitors in protected monuments

Jun 2, 2017 by Dunja Djudjic 14 Comments
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Have you already been to India and photographed Taj Mahal and other famous monuments? If you haven’t, from now on you may need a license to do it. The Archaeological Survey of India (ASI) is changing their photography policy, and they will soon require photographers to be licensed if they want to operate commercially in India’s protected monuments.

Unlike the Swiss village that banned photography, this isn’t a PR trick. The reason for this move by ASI is to prevent freelance photographers from “pestering” the visitors who want to take photos.

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