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Hi,
I thought you may be interested in the launch of Stockphotorights.com, a new educational resource which aims to unravel the complexities and expose the potential legal pitfalls of image use. Stockphotorights.com has been set up by Getty Images for the good of the photographic industry. The site is designed to represent image providers and has the support of BAPLA (British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies) and PACA (Picture Archive Council of America).
Image Rights Explained Visually Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OS1SXyZ0BnU
In the digital age, a wealth of online content is now available at the click of a mouse. With the creative industries experiencing redundancies and cut-backs, which have caused tighter budgets and greater time pressures for young creative professionals, shortcuts to seemingly harmless imagery now often appear to present a tempting solution. Getty Images has identified that there is a lack of online resources for people to get clarification and understanding on image use. With these factors in mind, it is easy to see how the knowledge gap has widened for the image buying community.
Stockphotorights.com launches in response to a new survey which has identified an unsurprising lack of understanding among some image users. The survey, carried out by Redshift Research on behalf of Stockphotorights.com, asked more than 1,200 new and established image users in the US and the UK involved in sourcing stock imagery about their views, habits and understandings around image use.
The survey found that image users in the UK and the US are taking chances when it comes to how they source their images. More than one-third (39%) of the image users surveyed admitted to regularly exposing themselves to potential risk by using images copied directly from image search engines, and nearly one quarter (22%) said they source imagery for commercial use directly from photo-sharing websites.
Almost half of the respondents (48%) said they did not fully understand legal protection or indemnification, (the form of warranty where the image supplier agrees to bear liability and assume certain legal costs if a claim around the image arises). Almost 45% of respondents were unaware that you can still face a legal claim relating to an image you used, even if you license it. A mere 18% reported paying for legal protection when licensing an image. Even among respondents who understood that certain image licenses include legal protection, 26% said they have considered themselves at risk by sourcing an image which doesn’t include it.
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Bite