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Getty Images is dumping rights-managed “creative” image licenses to go exclusively royalty-free

Nov 8, 2019 by John Aldred 6 Comments
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Getty Images has announced that after poring over sales data and customer research, they’re ditching the rights-managed licensing options and going over to royalty-free for their “creative” images. Announced over email, the news makes sense from a business standpoint. This will make it a better deal for customers and make Getty more money. But, it’s not necessarily such a great deal for photographers.

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Filmstro releases over 1,000 tracks of free music to use in your YouTube videos

Jun 30, 2018 by John Aldred 3 Comments
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Filmstro is something of a unique service when it comes to music. With plugins for both Premiere Pro and Final Cut Pro, you can pick your music and then use sliders to adjust the momentum, depth and power of that music throughout your clip. You can adjust any tune to match the mood of your scene as it changes from shot to shot.

But they have static versions of all their Royalty Free music, too, and they’ve just released them to the world for free for use on YouTube. Even if your video is monetised.

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Do not submit user generated content to brands or marketers – know your rights

User generated content rights for brands and marketers

Jun 2, 2018 by JP Danko 3 Comments
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Brands and marketers are increasingly reaching out to social media users for “user generated content” (UGC).

Usually, you will receive a friendly request from the social media account of a brand or a marketer that would like to re-publish or use an image or video that you have previously shared to social media.

Effective marketers will find a way to stoke your ego a little, it’s a pitch that most social media users (myself included) are inclined to accept without a second thought.

If you’re on Instagram, they will usually ask you to simply reply with a specific hashtag.

But before you submit your user generated content (UGC) to a brand or marketer you need to know your rights – you are being ripped off.

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Freebies: Get 866MB Hi-Res Images Of Fire And Sparkles For Hot Editing

Jan 17, 2015 by Stefan Kohler 17 Comments
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Sometimes, when sorting out old crap on your hard drives, you can find a little treasure. You might remember that fireproof housing for my D800. We tested a lot on this day and some of the shots were really cool.

I’ve converted all the files to JPG without cropping them. So these files are quite high resolution and the package is over 800MB to download.

It’s all stuff from little fire, larger fire and sparkles up to “inferno”.

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10 Famous Landmarks You’re Not Allowed to Photograph for Commercial Use

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Nov 13, 2014 by JP Danko 134 Comments
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Having just returned from Paris, I spent some time photographing a few of the world’s most famous landmarks.

Some of these photos are just my personal vacation photos and will only be seen by me (and maybe my Facebook friends…DIYP readers…Facebook friends of DIYP readers…).  But, a few of them will end up being sold commercially as royalty free stock through my stock portfolio over at Stocksy United.

If you are a photographer, and especially if you are a commercial photographer (commercial in the general sense that you take photographs or sell photographs for money), you should be aware of the copyright restrictions for landmarks, buildings, architecture, art and other intellectual property.

Keep reading, because like this restriction on publishing photographs of the Eiffel Tower at night, there are more weird copyright restrictions for landmarks, buildings, architecture, art and other intellectual property than you might think.

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