It started quite innocently. A family picture for Mother’s Day to share with close ones and the world. Just before…
Category: technology
Caught in the headlight
As giants like Midjourney, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft freely plunder their work, the stock photo industry—Getty aside—stands by, silently complicit…
AI licensing for photography
From content creation to copyright management, the integration of AI in the field of photography is rewriting the rules. As…
Generative AI : Do or Die
Understandably, new powerful technologies like generative AI triggers anxiety. But the conversation needs to evolve and move on from the…
VAIsual And Smarterpix Sign world first Synthetic Media Distribution Agreement
As of today, everyone can download and use true to life 100% AI-generated images. Washington DC, USA. January 5, 2022.…
Dancing with the gods of deception
At a time when everyone is encouraged to tell their stories, those whose job has been to tell other people…
NFT’s and Photography
The latest surge of internet photography chatter is about NFT, mainly since a piece of digital art called JPEG was sold…
Article 17: Are you ready?
6 months away from the full implementation of Article 17, it seems no one is ready. Working models have yet to…
It’s here, it’s live…it’s a badge
For most of the world, it has absolutely no interest. For the few that still rely on licensing photos to…
A slippery road
How the implementation of article 17 of the European Copyright directive is going to deepen the value gap rather than…
