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Flickr Launches New Commercial Licensing Platform / Martketplace
etudiante_rapide:
--- Quote from: PixelBytes on July 29, 2014, 16:27 ---Should we all hurry to upload to Flickr Now? They gonna have watermarks and start to check for releases? What about stolen or unlicense content? They get these issues under control?
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i do not upload 4-16MP to Flickr. i just give them my 600*900 at the most. and i do not allow downloads. anyone who sees my work will know the quality from them, and if Flickr tells me there is a client, i will upload the 4MP-16MP accordingly.
presently i use Flickr just to show my potential clients my work. and if they like what they see, they hire me locally.
but i welcome a global network , and Flickr is just the sort of middle man i welcome.
definitely, i will also like to see watermarks as well. as for releases, i only use flickr for editorials not requiring credentials , so i am not sure about MR or IPR. but i too will expect them to deal with this accordingly.
EmberMike:
At the bottom of the Yahoo announcement it says that it was written by curator and content manager Liz Lapp, as in, Liz Lapp the former curator for Shutterstock. And looking at her LinkedIn profile it looks like her days at Shutterstock ended as soon as her Yahoo/Flickr gig started, so I'm assuming she left Shutterstock for this new job. Interesting that they brought over a former Shutterstock person for this, and even more so that they seem to have maybe recruited her.
I think this will be interesting, and more or less so depending on how things shape up and this all comes online. Will they deal in illustrations or only photos? I think that's an underrepresented area of some of these other high-end curated collections. What will the licensing look like? Price points? Royalties? Lots of questions to be answered...
Could be cool, though. We'll see.
PaulieWalnuts:
Interesting times with all of the sites jumping in. 500PX, FAA, and now Yahoo.
I remember reading that Flickr has been unprofitable with no direction. Now that it can make them money hopefully they'll see it as a core part of their business and focus on it.
And hopefully they come up with a reasonable model that will balance sales volume with a reasonable contributor percentage. If they just copy Getty's 20%-ish model I think they'll get a lot of angry responses.
ShadySue:
--- Quote from: EmberMike on July 29, 2014, 18:48 ---At the bottom of the Yahoo announcement it says that it was written by curator and content manager Liz Lapp, as in, Liz Lapp the former curator for Shutterstock. And looking at her LinkedIn profile it looks like her days at Shutterstock ended as soon as her Yahoo/Flickr gig started, so I'm assuming she left Shutterstock for this new job. Interesting that they brought over a former Shutterstock person for this, and even more so that they seem to have maybe recruited her.
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And interesting that they're "taking on 500px and Getty", but not SS. Hmmm.
onepointfour:
They can't be taking on Getty, they are partnering with Getty. In Getty's forum, 30 days ago there was an announcement Flickr will renew the relationship with Getty. Flickr will now be referred as Getty's Image Partner just like Blend Images or Nat Geo.
But I'm surprised Flickr didn't mention Getty in their announcement.
Update! Opps they did mention here https://www.flickr.com/marketplace/
"Get connected to opportunities to license your work to
photo editors, designers, and agencies including Getty Images"
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