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General Stock Discussion / With Corbis Gone, Where Next?
« on: January 23, 2016, 02:12 »
Here's my Corbis conundrum:

I have a wide array of editorial photos from mid-20th century (politicians, artists, actors, etc.). Started digitizing them a year ago, and putting them on Corbis, had some modest success. I specifically avoided Getty because I had heard bad things about them in terms of pricing stuff so cheaply that contributors make very little. Corbis seemed to treat contributors pretty well, and had respect for them.

The current scenario is that Corbis contributors *might* get invited to migrate to Getty. Assuming that invitation comes my way, I want to gather some information.

The only other place where this collection would seem to be a good fit would be Alamy. There's a lot I don't know, so maybe there are other agencies. Long gone are the days of Peter Arnold, The Stock Market, and other small teams that specialized in editorial stuff.

So, I want to find out if Getty is really that bad, as compared to refusing to join Getty and using Alamy or other small-fry places that might work.

Thoughts?

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Print on Demand Forum / FFA - Print Quality / Licensing
« on: January 10, 2015, 13:24 »
Hi all, new to the forum here.

I perused the other threads about FFA but did not see anyone directly addressing the following questions. Does anyone have knowledge of the following aspects of FFA:

1). Assuming one has good quality digital scans (scans from negatives) uploaded to FAA, and assuming the photoshop corrections and color space are done correctly, how good is the print quality from FFA?

2). I have a contract with Corbis. Many of the images are set as exclusive with Corbis. I'm considering joining FFA (and after careful research I think it meets my needs), but the thing I am concerned about is the fact that in the FFA general contributor contract there is a clause stating that uploading an images gives FFA the right to sell AND to license ("By submitting images to Fine Art America, You grant to Fine Art America a worldwide, non-exclusive right to sell, license, sublicense, reproduce...."). I sent a question to FFA asking for clarification, but have not had a clear response yet. The initial response was that "we can't license to third parties" and I asked why the general contributor contract has the word "license" in it, haven't had a response yet. So my question here is -- does anyone have any knowledge of FFA licensing practices when the artist does NOT want them to license images out for third party commercial use. Basically, I want to use Corbis for all my commercial licensing, and FFA for all my print sales.

Any light on either of these questions will be appreciated.

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