Our support desk has been getting many requests for help around Content Restrictions. So a quick post about Content Restrictions may help. Content Restrictions are meant to control the use of your content. For example, if you want that perfect image of a blue heron used only in wildlife magazines in North America, you can set up your restrictions to limit the use of your image in that way. In fact, LicenseStream offers flexibility to set up your restrictions in a number of ways.
The first is through the Business/Store Manager. You can select Manage Restrictions.’
On the right hand tool bar you will see ‘Restrictions.’ Click on ‘New Global Restrictions,’ Enter your restriction information and click ‘Create Restriction.’ That will be applied to all of your existing content and all new content added to your LicenseStream account.
If you ever want to remove a Global Restriction go back to Manage Restrictions. You’ll see your Global Restrictions listed. Simply click on the one that you want to delete and the bar will expand. Click the text link: ‘Delete Restriction.’
Using the Global Restriction feature makes it quick and simple to add restrictions to your entire collection.
In cases where you’d like to add more restrictions or remove the global restriction on a particular piece of content, click ‘Manage Content’ on the top navigation. Hover over the image that you’d like to add or remove restrictions from and click ‘Edit.’ Then select the tab ‘Restrictions.’ Here you can add new restrictions to the content or delete restrictions.
The same can also be done in the Business/Store Manager->Manage Restrictions by using the ‘New Content Restriction’ button.
If you add a restriction to an individual piece of content, you will then be able to find it in the Business/Store Manger ->Manage Restrictions directly below the Global Restrictions in the right hand toolbar. The restrictions listed are text links. So if you click on the text link, it will expand in the toolbar. If you click on ‘Select Restriction Content’ it will show you the content that particular restriction has been applied to. If you’d like to add the same restriction to more content, then simply select the content and click on ‘Add Selected Content.’ An easy way to remove a restriction from some but not all of your content is to click on ‘Select Restriction Content’ and deselect the pieces of content that you do not want to remove the restriction from. When you are satisfied click on ‘Remove Selected Content’ and it will remove the restriction from the content that you had selected.
If you’d like to delete any of the restrictions on the content, simply follow the above steps and click on the ‘delete’ button for the particular restriction that you want to remove from the content.
No matter what, restrictions can have end dates or have no end date. However, each restriction must have a start date. You can create as many or as few restrictions as you’d like for your content.
ImageSpan CEO Iain Scholnick Speaks at Digital Hollywood Today!
Following up on last Friday’s post, we wanted to remind you that ImageSpan’s CEO, Iain Scholnick, is speaking this morning at Digital Hollywood Spring 2009 (at the Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel in Santa Monica May 4-7)
He’s speaking there on the following panel:
9 a.m. – 10:15 a.m., Wednesday, May 6
Track III: Content Rights - Digital Rights - Entertainment & Technology Track
Digital Choice and Access to Digital Content - Balancing Consumer Rights with Technology, Regulation and Legal Principles
Speakers:
Arnaud Robert, Corporate Vice President, Emerging Technology Strategy, The Walt Disney Company
Michael Alexander, Strategy & Growth Initiatives, IBM Global Telecommunications Industry
Stuart Rosove, VP, Media & Entertainment, Digimarc Corporation
Laurin H. Mills, Managing Partner, Nixon Peabody LLP
Iain Scholnick, CEO and President, ImageSpan
Ann Chaitovitz, consultant, former Executive Director at Future of Music Coalition, copyright attorney-advisor, USPTO
Moderator:
James M. Burger, Attorney at Law, Dow Lohnes, Moderator
For more information, view the full session description and speaker information by clicking here.
Hope we see you there!
