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…Once the photos are digitized and made into hard copies, they will be distributed through companies like The Mint, CMG, and ImageSpan, which has a platform, called LicenseStream, that will allow the Chicago Tribune to make its archived photos searchable and marketable.
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As content is digitized, hard- copy prints will be marketed and sold through a number of outlets, including Jay Parrino's The Mint; CMG, a company that holds rights to a number of celebrity photos; and ImageSpan, whose LicenseStream platform will allow the Tribune to make its photos searchable and saleable to businesses.
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ImageSpan Inc., creator of the LicenseStream licensing and royalty payment automation platform, and BrandProtect partnered to extend services that enable content owners to protect and expand their global brand, reach and revenues
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Sausalito-based ImageSpan has announced that the services of Toronto company BrandProtect are now part of online content licensing platform LicenseStream.
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BrandProtect and ImageSpan today announced that they have partnered to extend services that empower content owners to protect and expand their global brand, reach and revenues.
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As publishers scramble for new revenue sources, some companies are turning inward to see how decades of archived media assets can be combined with e-commerce engines to create content licensing portals. SPIN magazine, for instance, launched a site last month where other publishers could access 25 years of images under a range of fees and usage parameters.
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In an attempt to help publishers exploit the massive fragmentation of content around the globe, content licensing technology company LicenseStream is partnering with digital payment system PaymentLounge to create an international clearinghouse for text, images, video and audio media.
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ImageSpan has teamed up with Arvato Finance Services to create a global clearinghouse for web site owners to license digital content such as photos and videos and then pay the proper owners of the property, regardless of what country they're in.
(Note: This story was also mentioned on The New York Times technology page, The Industry Standard Gizmodose, Mixx.com, Norge News blog, Tech News.AM, The Industry Standard, Web Tech Gadget News.)
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ImageSpan of Sausalito said Tuesday it has teamed up with Arvato Finance Services to create a global clearinghouse for digital content on the Web, allowing Web site owners to license photos and videos and make sure the owners of that content get paid.
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As struggling newspapers look for new sources of revenue, most are attempting to monetize their daily news content online. Chicago Tribune is expanding on the same idea: the paper is digitizing its image archive and making it work—including as a stock-image asset.
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ImageSpan and arvato finance services, a wholly-owned subsidiary of arvato AG, a Bertelsmann company, have announced a platform collaboration to deliver a global clearinghouse that "unifies, drives and accelerates the trade of digital content, including video, images, audio and text...”
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The 25-year-old music industry magazine Spin is leveraging its repository of media and combining it with the convenience of the Internet in a new self-serve licensing business. The Spin Licensing Store lets anyone open an account and peruse the library of images ranging from Aerosmith to Lady GaGa.
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ImageSpan CEO Iain Scholnick talks about ImageSpan's new partnership with Digimarc with Paul Worthington, Editor of The 6Sight Future of Imaging Report.
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In the late 1980s and early 1990s while serving as Executive Director of ASMP I had the opportunity to learn much about the future capabilities that digital technologies would deliver to media photographers.
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ImageSpan, a provider of digital image licensing software, has partnered with digital watermarking company Digimarc in what analysts say will usher in a new way to manage content on the Web.
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ImageSpan and Digimarc have announced a partnership the two say delivers a complete solution to manage, monitor and monetize image assets.
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Beaverton, Oregon-based Digimarc, a provider of digital identification technology, has tied with ImageSpan, a developer of licensing and royalty payment platforms, the companies said today.
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At today's 6Sight Future of Imaging Conference in Monterey, Calif., two leading imaging asset-tracking firms announced a partnership to create a solution to manage, to monitor and to monetize image assets.
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ImageSpan and Digimarc are announcing plans to form a joint venture dedicated to creating a program for managing and monetizing image assets at the 6Sight 2009 Conference.
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ImageSpan and Digimarc are announcing plans to form a joint venture dedicated to creating a program for managing and monetizing image assets at the 6Sight 2009 Conference.
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In today's tough economic climate, it pays to be resourceful. Battered by the Great Recession, an outlook for recovery that remains mixed at best, and a sea change in the media landscape, even those photographers who had a very steady stream of clients and projects have seen these dwindle over the past year or so.
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...To be able to effectively monetize those and other markets as individuals, outside of traditional agencies, photographers will need tools, specifically web tools, to deal with distributing their images, handling licensing and sales, and tracking abuse. One possible answer to that need is ImageSpan...
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ImageSpan Inc., the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading licensing and royalty payment automation platform for all media, today announced that the Missouri History Museum has selected LicenseStream to promote, protect, track, and create new revenue streams from its prints and images, helping it to maximize the value of its extensive library of historic images.
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During this week's PhotoPlus Expo, Sausalito-based ImageSpan announced that its flagship product LicenseStream is now available in a business edition. This allows content owners to license and track their content through branded online stores.
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Today, the creator ImageSpan Inc., the creator of LicenseStream, announced that the Missouri History Museum has selected LicenseStream to promote, protect, track and create new revenue streams from prints and images. This process is helping maximize the value of its extensive library of history images.
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Highly Recommended: Tools for Selling Stock Direct: We are very close to a convergence of technology and evolving search behavior that will enable photographers to license their existing images directly to clients as never before. Learn how from representatives of companies on the cutting edge of these technologies: Photo Shelter, ImageSpan, LookStat and Creative Commons. PhotoShelter has great tools for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and ImageSpan offers a soup-to-nuts program for licensing stock direct.
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The future of imaging will be in more dimensions, when you want it, and in more places. That's the key theme of the upcoming 6Sight Future of Imaging Conference, Nov. 10-12, at the Monterey Conference Center in Monterey, Calif.
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liveBooks recently created a partnership with ImageSpan, so I have been learning a lot about the company and what they do. Aside from providing photographers with LicenseStream, a web-based service to easily license their images online, ImageSpan also has an informative blog...
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ImageSpan Inc., the creator of LicenseStream recently announced that photographer, writer and historian Joseph Sohm has selected LicenseStream to promote, protect, track, and create new revenue streams from his entire library of images...
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Joseph Sohm's "Visions of America" won the Gold medal for "Best Coffee Table Book" at the 13th annual Independent Publishing Awards. The photographer is now licensing those images – and his entire portfolio – with LicenseStream, developer ImageSpan announced.
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ImageSpan Inc., the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading licensing and royalty payment automation platform for all media, today announced that photographer, writer and historian Joseph Sohm has selected...
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Much of the recent coverage of trends in the stock-photo business revolves around the shift away from traditional stock, in both subject matter and distribution model. Photo-historian Joseph Sohm's selection of ImageSpan's LicenseStream as a licensing solution exemplifies both.
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ImageSpan and liveBooks today announced that they have formed a strategic alliance to "deliver a set of best-in-class services that empower photographers to dramatically extend their online reach and generate new revenues".
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ImageSpan, owner and creator of the license and royalty program LicenseStream, announced today a new partnership with liveBooks, an online provider of portfolio websites and marketing software for professional photographers.
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ImageSpan, owner and creator of the license and royalty program LicenseStream, announced today a new partnership with liveBooks, an online provider of portfolio websites and marketing software for professional photographers.
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ImageSpan Inc., the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading licensing and royalty payment automation platform for all media, and liveBooks, Inc., the leading provider of customized portfolio websites and marketing software for professional photographers, today announced that they have formed a strategic alliance...
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ImageSpan Inc., the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading licensing and royalty payment automation platform for all media, and liveBooks, Inc., the leading provider of customized portfolio websites and marketing software for professional photographers, today announced that they have formed a strategic alliance...
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ImageSpan Inc, the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading licensing and royalty payment automation platform for all media, and liveBooks, Inc., the leading provider of customized portfolio websites and marketing software for professional photographers, today announced that they have formed a strategic alliance…
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ImageSpan and liveBooks today announced that they have formed a strategic alliance to "deliver a set of best-in-class services that empower photographers to dramatically extend their online reach and generate new revenues."
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LicenseStream creator ImageSpan and liveBooks, a portfolio Web-site company, have forged a partnership to provide customized services to liveBooks' 5,000 photographer-customers.
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ImageSpan, owner and creator of the license and royalty program LicenseStream, announced today a new partnership with liveBooks, an online provider of portfolio websites and marketing software for professional photographers.
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Need to sell your pictures, videos or other digital content online but not quite ready to open an online store or get a credit card merchant account? Then LicenseStream is for you! Finally you can concentrate on the creative while they manage content delivery and payment processing ... Pam Fischer, Community Agent/Strategic Relations Director from ImageSpan tells us more on this edition.
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Laura Evenson, a first time attendee of the Summit and Director of Communications for ImageSpan, shared with me her thoughts about how inspiring the conference has been during these tough times. "With the fragmentation of content and revenues online, everyone is talking about how the costs of current manual licensing and billing processes grow so burdensome that it's tough to make any money."
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"Content is fragmented all over the place," says Iain Scholnick of ImageSpan. The company attempts to find a solution to this by automating the process of digital licensing. "Most content companies come into a kind of negative calculus, they hit a wall. The monetization doesn't add up."
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ImageSpan has signed its first international reseller agreement with French company DP SARL, which will offer LicenseStream Creator among the array of services it provides to professional photographers and companies. DP SARL will receive a non-disclosed share of fees paid for LicenseStream registrations and transactions conducted through the French company's francephotographie.com Web site.
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Bill Cullifer, executive director, WebProfessionals.org, interviews ImageSpan CEO Iain Scholnick about LicenseStream at Web 2.0.
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Being a photographer is a great artistic experience that has its own rewards. Getting paid for your pictures isn't bad either... LicenseStream is an online service that makes it possible to sell licenses to your pictures and videos, as well as helps you manage your photo business.
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ImageSpan just announced the 2.0 version. I had an early preview by the ImageSpan staff and was very impressed. They have seemingly thought of everything.
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ImageSpan and PicScout say they are partnering to deliver image licensing and tracking services that address "a huge and growing problem: online image theft."
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From Web 2.0 Expo, InformationWeek editor-at-large David Berlind sits with ImageSpan strategic relations director Pam Fischer for a reviewcam of LicenseStream.
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Last week we invested in ourselves by attending O'Reilly's Web 2.0 conference and expo in San Francisco. Imagine our surprise to find out someone else had been investing in us at the same time. In fact, that's ImageSpan's business plan.
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ImageSpan CEO Iain Scholnick talks with 6Sight Report editor Paul Worthington about his solution for solving the problem of the unauthorized use of images online that he says hits photographers with an estimated $65 million in lost revenue.
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ImageSpan named AlwaysOn OnHollywood winner.
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Interview with Iain Scholnick, CEO, ImageSpan.
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License Stream is a service consumers can use to start earning revenue from their photos.
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At this week's Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, ImageSpan and PicScout announced a partnership to help ImageSpan's LicenseStream subscribers track and monetize content published online. The two companies said this alliance not only offers licensing and tracking services, but also addresses the growing problem of online image theft.
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ImageSpan, creator of licensing and royalty payment automation platform LicenseStream, has partnered with image copyright service provider PicScout.
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ImageSpan Inc., the creator of LicenseStream, the licensing and royalty payment automation platform for all media, and PicScout, an image copyright service provider to the digital content industry, announced a new partnership to deliver an image licensing and tracking service to help LicenseStream subscribers monetize content found by PicScout.
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Of possible of interest to those who follow content creation, copyright and the digital content industry I had a very absorbing chat with Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer and president, ImageSpan.
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Because License-Stream's service gives content creators more control over the license, you can set a premium for your content.
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I covered the new LicenseStream service late last year at PhotoPlus 2008 and now the company is introducing version 2.0 of their service here at PMA 2009.
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Is it possible to create more efficient links between searches for online content and multiple payment or monetization schemes?
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In the area of freely moving content over the Web, ImageSpan has introduced LicenseStream Creator 2.0, that includes what ImageSpan refers to as, "a radical innovation." The software ties search results to direct payment/licensing...
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Content licensing specialist ImageSpan has plans to make acquiring content licenses easier -- a lot easier.
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ImageSpan of Sausalito has made it easy for content creators to license their work and collect payments from people who want to use their images, audio and video.
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The latest version of LicenseStream from California-based ImageSpan claims to deliver one-click buying of digital via a search-engine result. The company said LicenseStream 2.0 enables its users to publish content directly to global search engines.
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ImageSpan, the California-based creator of the LicenseStream platform, has announced agreements with the American Society of Media Photographers, the National Press Photographers Association, and the Worldwide Community of Imaging Associations (known as PMA).
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ImageSpan is partnering with three professional photo associations to offer member discounts on its digital licesning and storages services.
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It's not easy to get people to pay for things like photos that are easily stolen on the internet. But ImageSpan just might have some success with a new system that allows it to collect royalties on behalf of artists and photographers.
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Stock-industry suppliers ImageSpan and JaincoTech announced a partnership that expands and cross-promotes the services each offers its clients.
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Given the turmoil currently roiling most industries today I guess it's not surprising that the stock photography market continues to be a topic of concern for many photographers.
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Having given very careful consideration, and having committed to deciding by the end of the year; I've opened an account with ImageSpan and I'm now using their LicenseStream PRO service to automate the licensing of my stock images.
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ImageSpan has a year-end promotion (only 15 days left to take advantage of this offer) where you can get a FREE standard LicenseStream Creator subscription or can get the LicenseStream Creator Pro for only $49.00.
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Whoever thought selling your content online would be profitable? After all, everyone is creating photos, video and audio and just sticking them online to generate traffic to their websites. "Viral video is where it's at" they say. Ummm, no it's not. Licensing your content is where the money is.
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ImageSpan announced that its digital content licensing and royalty settlement service offers image suppliers and other content providers a path to implementation of licensing standards that have been adopted by three publishers.
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ImageSpan announced that its digital content licensing and royalty settlement service offers image suppliers and other content providers a path to implementation of licensing standards that have been adopted by three publishers.
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…Iain Scholnick, CEO and President, ImageSpan Inc. A visionary and veteran of the Internet and wireless industries. His operations experience drives ImageSpan towards its mission of leading the market in licensing and billing automation for media.
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Sally and Daniel review new applications and solutions for photographers that they found at the 6Sight conference. Listen for a free code and offer on a new copyright solution from Image Span.
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ImageSpan Inc., a software company that offers a content licensing platform for digital media based in Sausalito, CA, has announced that its digital content licensing and royalty settlement service is set-up to implement licensing standards created by the Picture Licensing Universal System (PLUS) Coalition that have recently been adopted by three major publishers.
This follows the recent announcement by representatives of McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson that they will adopt licensing standards created by PLUS in their contracts and encourage image suppliers to begin embedding PLUS license metadata in all images within a year.
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Targeting photographers, videographers, and illustrators, Web-based LicenseStream Creator PRO service offers both tracking and licensing to creators and owners of digital content. Automated options convert non-paying content consumers into paying customers, helping creators obtain value from photos, video, and other digital assets as they get distributed on Web. Subscribers can embed terms of use into content's metadata, including where content can be used and for how long.
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"Today, the marketplace is MySpace, YouTube and Google's search engine. You should be putting your content in front of that transactional velocity," says Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer and president of ImageSpan. The 5-year-old Sausalito, Calif., company offers transactional support for online content licensing and has just added a tracking service that monitors usage of such content.
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ImageSpan Inc., which provides a digital content licensing and billing settlement platform, announced the addition of a new online media tracker to its Web-based LicenseStream Creator PRO service. The company says it's one of the first services to offer both tracking and licensing to creators and owners of photos, videos and illustrations used or sold online.
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…You see, ImageSpan's LicenseStream with Digital Content Tracker keeps an inventory of your online images, with licensing terms for quick sales—and not only that, it scours the web looking for your photos (and like Tineye.com it uses the photos themselves for the search criteria) and sends back reports of unauthorized postings of your images. It's just shy of a hundred bucks a year for the full service, with a basic LicenseStream account (minus Digital Content Tracker) going for just $39/year, it's not a whole lot of money to potentially make some money off your shots…
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ImageSpan, which provides a digital content licensing and billing settlement platform, announced the addition of a new content tracker to its Web-based LicenseStream Creator PRO service. The company said the addition is delivering the first service to offer both tracking and licensing to creators and owners of digital content.
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LicenseStream Creator PRO now offers tracking and licensing in one service, empowering content owners and creators to make more money from their digital assets. ImageSpan Inc., which provides a digital content licensing and billing settlement platform, today announced the addition of a new content tracker to its Web-based LicenseStream Creator PRO service, delivering the first service to offer both tracking and licensing to creators and owners of digital content.
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The final day of PhotoPlus Expo 2008 brings interesting information from ImageSpan, and more from the newcomer on the Pro SLR block - Sony.
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With LicenseStream, you can sell, license and market your digital images and video quickly and safely. Take control of your work and unlock new revenue streams. Two plans, basic and pro are available and both allow you to upload and sell your photographs while giving you full control over how your images are licensed. The service will also scour the web and will identify any unauthorized use of your images and will then provide you a quick way of communicating with the offending party.
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A great way to keep your inventory of your online images. Not only do they keep your images on their servers for you, but they also inlcude licensing terms for quick sales of those images. Another advantage of their system vs. some of the other popular image storing and selling sites is that they code each image and then their system scours the web looking for your images and reports any unauthorized postings of those images.
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Today, at the PDN PhotoPlus Expo, ImageSpan unveiled a new service, LicenseStream Creator Pro, that automatically scours the Web, 24/7, 365 and lets photographers know where (and how) their digital content is being used PLUS it provides several options to accelerate converting non-paying content users into paying customers. Based on the number of announcements that have happened in this arena over the last few months (i.e. Flickr/Getty and Photrade), it is pretty clear that the market for addressing the needs of digital content creators is quite hot.
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ImageSpan Inc., which provides a digital content licensing and billing settlement platform, today announced the addition of a new content tracker to its Web-based LicenseStream Creator PRO service, delivering the first service to offer both tracking and licensing to creators and owners of digital content. LicenseStream Creator PRO offers additional licensing, reporting and publishing flexibility and options to the standard LicenseStream service for photographers, videographers, illustrators and other providers of digital content.
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ImageSpan has added a new wrinkle to its LicenseStream Creater Pro service, which can now track down unlicensed digital content and help create licensing relationships with users that otherwise might not have paid for it.
LicenseStream Pro, ImageSpan's software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering for photographers, videographers, illustrators, and other creators of digital media, is designed to help them more easily monetize that content.
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…I'm sure this is just the very beginning of the potential for something like this and if the investors are any indication (Bertelsmann) there's a huge need for licensing and tracking on the corporate level but what I like best is they've created a solution for everyone.
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ImageSpan Inc., which provides a digital content licensing and billing settlement platform, today announced the addition of a new content tracker to its Web-based LicenseStream Creator PRO service, delivering the first service to offer both tracking and licensing to creators and owners of digital content. LicenseStream Creator PRO offers additional licensing, reporting and publishing flexibility and options to the standard LicenseStream service for photographers, videographers, illustrators and other providers of digital content.
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The world of copyrights and content licensing is a mess on the web. Plagiarism runs amok. People tend to be very cavalier about stealing content. In this installment of the Deal Radar, we will look at a company that attempts to put some structure around the evidently unmanageable content licensing and monetization issue.
ImageSpan, our featured company, was conceived when the company's founder and CEO, Iain Scholnick, was in a meeting with a digital content asset management company. He decided to come up with a way to make digital content flow from creator to final consumer with all the necessary information required to carry out a transaction. Scholnick decided to tackle the massive and complex problem of managing and monetizing digital content on the web, thereby benefiting everyone in the supply chain.
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