As giants like Midjourney, OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft freely plunder their work, the stock photo industry—Getty aside—stands by, silently complicit…
Category: copyright
Where have the archives of Sygma photographers gone?
This article was first written and published on September 8, 2023, by Michel Puech in French and is reproduced here…
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…
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…
The value of free photos
With Adobe Stock now joining the club, all stock photo agencies now offer free photos. How does free work with…
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…
The great collapse of copyright
One of the foundations of photo agencies is to provide its customers with safe, secure, properly vetted visual content. In…
