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Click to save the nation’s digital memory

Apr 08. 2013
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Photo: Soberka Richard/ hemis.fr (HEMIS sponsor to CEPIC Congress)

Six major libraries poised to capture the digital universe, including the entire UK web domain.

Regulations coming into force on 6 April will enable six major libraries to collect, preserve and provide long term access to the increasing proportion of the nation’s cultural and intellectual output that appears in digital form – including blogs, e-books and the entire UK web domain.

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Government gives £150,000 funding to kick-start copyright hub

Apr 08. 2013
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Lord Younger announces £150,000 of funding for new web site designed to make it easier for consumers to obtain information about copyright.

£150,000 of funding to create a one-stop-shop web site designed to make it easier for consumers to get information about rights ownership and copyright licences, was announced today by Intellectual Property (IP) Minister, Lord Younger.

Professor Hargreaves, in his review of IP and Growth in May 2011, recommended that the UK should establish an industry-led solution to improve copyright licensing. He estimated that it could add up to £2.2 billion a year to the UK economy by 2020, with a particular benefit to the creative industries.

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LCC: New rights model to improve legal access to online content

Apr 08. 2013
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Unique industry collaboration launches new rights model to improve legal access to online content

A unique collaboration between different parts of the global creative industry, under the umbrella of the Linked Content Coalition (LCC), has resulted in the creation of an innovative technical Framework to make it possible to manage and access online rights information seamlessly across all types of media and content, whether text, image, sound or audio-visual.

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Gallerystock is now a member of CEPIC

Apr 03. 2013
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Please welcome our new affiliate from London (UK)

Gallery Stock is a premium, global image syndication library, showcasing the world’s leading commercial and museum photographers - many of whom have never before been represented by a stock agency.

The library also offers images by gifted emerging artists and unique partner collections. The concept is simple: to license only the highest-quality photography to premium customers. Gallery Stock connects art buyers, photo editors, art directors, and designers with the photographers they know by name from the fine art world and the commercial assignment industry.

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Google privacy policy

Apr 03. 2013
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Six European data protection authorities to launch coordinated and simultaneous enforcement actions.

From March to October 2012, the Article 29 Working Party investigated into Google’s privacy policy with the aim of checking whether it met the requirements of the European Data Protection Directive (95/46/CE).
In view of the findings of this analysis which was published on 26 October 2012, the EU Data protection authorities asked Google to comply with their recommendations within 4 months.

After this period has expired, Google has not implemented any significant compliance measures.

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WIPO Survey Reveals Concern about Costs of Technology Dispute Proceedings

Mar 28. 2013
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An International Survey on Dispute Resolution in Technology Transactions conducted by the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center reveals that less than 2% of technology agreements lead to formal dispute proceedings, but that these proceedings are generally costly and time-consuming.

The survey report presents the practices and motivation of almost 400 survey respondents from over 60 countries, and assesses the current use and comparative merits of Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) methods for resolving technology-related disputes. The survey report also offers observations on dispute resolution best practices based on analysis of the data compiled and interviews conducted with the survey.

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Simon Marsden Recognised with Exceptional Achievement in Photography

Mar 26. 2013
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Source: Simon Marsden

This Prestigious award was given posthumously to Simon at the London Film Museum by Amateur Photographer on 7th February 2013.

"Real vision is the ability to see the invisible"
Jonathan Swift, author of Gulliver's Travels

Over the last eleven years THE MARSDEN ARCHIVE has become widely recognised as a unique picture library specialising in the fantastic and the supernatural.

Exclusively holding Simon Marsden's extraordinary and powerful black and white images the collection contains material from the British Isles, Ireland, France, Belgium, Italy, Germany, Romania and the USA.

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Alamy kicks off next phase of expansion with new look website

Mar 26. 2013
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Source: C. Campbell / Alamy

International stock photo agency Alamy has revealed its new look website – which is the latest step in the company’s efforts to improve the online experience for creative and editorial customers.

The company has taken a phased approach to the site re-design and is initially launching with a new homepage, search results, image pop-up and lightbox tool. The focus is on business as usual and they have aimed at delivering extra functionality whilst retaining the integrity of the user experience.

They have added a ‘recent searches’ feature, introduced live news images into the search results and increased the size of the pop-up image by up to 100%.

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Short Statement from Rex Features Regarding Sipa News

Mar 26. 2013
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Last week there was an announcement that photo agency Sipa is to be taken over by UK based photo agency giant Rex Features and Belgium based photo agency Isopix.

  • Here a short statement from Rex Features:

The shareholders of Rex Features are very pleased to have been awarded the right to acquire Sipa Press by the French authorities, in collaboration with the shareholders of Belgium agent Isopix.

Sipa is a renowned brand in the world of photo journalism and we are proud that it can retain its independence and its eminent position in supplying the worlds media.

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BVPA rejects ancillary copyright law - Google Lex – Inadequate approach to pictures

Mar 25. 2013
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By the end of this week a plenary session of the German Federal Parliament (“Bundesrat”) will decide on an ancillary copyright law for news publishers (“Leistungsschutzrecht” in German).

This will be one last opportunity to stop the controversial law approved on 1st March by the majority of the black-yellow coalition.

The German National Association of Press Picture Agencies and Picture Archives (BVPA) strongly disapprove of the law for not adequately taking into account visual content on press articles.

Pictures are essential features of press products

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