Speakers at CEPIC 2008 Biographies

Gerry Badger
Photo Historian and Critic.
100 Hero Photographs
Gerry Badger is a photographer, architect, and photographic critic. He has written extensively for the photographic press, and has curated a number of exhibitions, including The Photographer as Printmaker (1980) for the Arts Council of Great Britain, and Through the Looking Glass: Postwar British Photography (1989) for the Barbican Arts Centre, London. His own work is in a number of public and private collections, including The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Victoria and Albert Museum, The Arts Council Collection, and The Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. He has written introductory essays to many photographic monographs, including those of such photographers as Stephen Shore, John Gossage, Martin Parr and Chris Killip. Among his books are Collecting Photography (2002), The Genius of Photography (2007), and (with Martin Parr), The Photobook: A History (2 vols., 2004 and 2006), winner of the Kraszna Krausz Prize in 2007.
(Wednesday 4 June 17.00 – 18.00 H, CDC II, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Prof. Dr. Johannes Glückler
Johannes Glückler, born in 1973 in Fulda, is professor of economic geography at the Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. He studied in Würzburg, Salamanca, Madrid and the London School of Economics and took his PhD at the University of Frankfurt. His research focuses on the analysis of social and strategic networks in the economy, particularly on service industries like management consulting and the creative industries. Johannes has also worked for an international strategy consultancy firm. He started researching the still picture industry in 2005 and produced several studies on the German picture market and the evolution of sales alliances between picture agencies.
Knowing Your Industry
The Picture Industry in Facts & Figures
Preliminary Results of CEPIC industry Survey
(Wednesday 4 June 18.00 – 19.00 H, CDC II, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Andy Goetze
The first blogger to cover the stock photo industry, StockPhotoTalk founder Andy Goetze is also a respected commentator on the photoblogging, mobile content, and footage industries. One of the earliest pundits to take the micro- payment stock phenomenon seriously, Goetze blogged about Getty Images' $50 million acquisition of iStockphoto three weeks before it became official. That kind of insider knowledge has become a staple of SPT, as is the occasional tongue-lashing he reserves for the industry's sacred cows.
(Quoted from American Photo 2007).
Andy works as consultant and investment analyst.
Assessing The Future
Work In Progress : New Trends in Microstostock, New Technologies For Consumers, New Portals
(Friday 6 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 1, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Klaus Plaumann
• Head of Marketing, Backoffice and Stern-Photo-Archive at Picture Press Bild-und Textagentur, a 100 % subsidiary of Gruner + Jahr, the largest German publishing house
• Board member of BVPA, the German picture agency association
• Manager Transglobe Agency 1987- 1996
• Degree in Sociology
• Published two photo books: The Beat Age (1978) and Rock`n`Roll Music (1995)
Assessing The Future
Work In Progress : New Trends in Microstostock, New Technologies For Consumers, New Portals
(Friday 6 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 1, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Bruce Livingstone
Senior Vice President, Consumer, Senior Vice President Technology and CEO iStockphoto
Bruce Livingstone serves as Getty Images' senior vice president consumer, senior vice president technology and CEO of iStockphoto. Livingstone founded iStockphoto in 1998, inventing the micropayment phenomenon for licensing imagery. Getty Images was the first to recognize micropayment as the next evolution in the industry, and acquired iStockphoto in February 2006.
As SVP of technology, Bruce is responsible for the company's overall technology strategy and development. With his innovative technology expertise, Livingstone is shaping the direction and implementation of the company's digital media vision. Livingstone also leads the upcoming consumer offering, a brand new growth opportunity for the company.
He is a former graphic designer and lifelong entrepreneur who has started several businesses, including Evolvs Media, a design firm; PaperThinWalls.com, an independent music website; and Webcore Labs, which offers professional Linux Web hosting. PaperThinWalls.com and Evolvs Media were purchased by Getty Images in 2007.
Assessing The Future
Work In Progress : New Trends in Microstostock, New Technologies For Consumers, New Portals
(Friday 6 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 1, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Oleg Tscheltzoff
Co-Founder and President of Fotolia.com
As an entrepreneur, Oleg Tscheltzoff has leveraged a global vision and knowledge in international business, management and marketing to develop successful online businesses. In November 2004 Oleg co-founded Fotolia.com, the first global online social marketplace for creative digital stock images in four languages, where photographers and designers of all levels can store, share and monetize their photographs and illustrations. As president he led the company from inception to rapid growth with 10,000 sales a day in less than one year. Prior to Fotolia, Oleg held various positions from Marketing at L'oreal in both France and the United States, to founding and selling a telecommunications company in the Ukraine, to co-founding and selling Amen, the leading Internet hosting company in France, which was sold in 2004 to Vianetworks (NASDAC Symbol VNWIE). He graduated a MS from ENSIEG in Grenoble /France and a MBA from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business. He is fluent in French, English and Russian
Assessing The Future
Assessing The Future
Work In Progress : New Trends in Microstostock, New Technologies For Consumers, New Portals
(Friday 6 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 1, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)
Pricing The Image
How To Grow Revenue With Pricing Strategy Modifications
(Friday 6 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 1, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Eyal Gura
CEO and Chairman of the Board
Gura co-founded PicScout and has led it to become the Image Tracking market leader. Eyal oversees the company sales, business development and product initiatives. Previously to PicScout, he founded the first online video recruiting hub - TheScouter.com. Eyal is a graduate of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program of IDC Herzliya and completes these days the Wharton Business School EMBA program.
Assessing The Future
Work In Progress : New Trends in Microstostock, New Technologies For Consumers, New Portals
(Friday 6 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 1, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Lee Corkran
Lee's photography career extends over 20 years, from combat photographer for the US military to running product development at internet start-ups and major corporations. He is Founder and CEO of BrightQube, the new online creative resource that’s changing the way the world finds images.His business background includes management roles at Digital Railroad, Hewlett-Packard, Pixology, Yahoo!, PictureIQ and Kodak. He also conceived and patented the Kodak PhotoQuilt Web application.
His photojournalism background included covering Europe, Africa and Mid-East activities for the Pentagon as a combat photographer, earning him a Bronze Star for aerial combat photography in the Gulf War. He covered activities in Washington, D.C. and across the United States for Sygma photo news agency, whose book "In The Eye of Desert Storm" won the Leica Award of Excellence.
Corkran holds a M.F.A. in Computer Graphics Design and a graduate certificate in Interactive Media Design from the Rochester Institute of Technology. He received his B.S. in Photography/Art History from Syracuse University.
Assessing The Future
Work In Progress : New Trends in Microstostock, New Technologies For Consumers, New Portals
(Friday 6 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 1, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Jim Pickerell
Jim Pickerell has been in the stock photo industry for more than 40 years. As a photographer his editorial work centered around Vietnam war coverage for three-and-a-half years and political coverage in Washington, DC. The bulk of his work since the late 1970s has been commercially oriented. In 1990 he began publishing a regular newsletter called Selling-Stock. He sold this publication to MediaPost in 2006, and it now provides daily online coverage of breaking news and analysis of stock photo industry issues. Jim continues as the principal writer for the newsletter. With his daughter, Cheryl DiFrank, he has published five editions of Negotiating Stock Photo Prices, a resource for pricing stock photography that is widely used in the U.S. In 1993 he and Cheryl established Stock Connection, a photo agency that represents approximately 400 photographers.
Pricing The Image
How To Grow Revenue With Pricing Strategy Modifications
(Friday 6 June 14.00 – 16.00 H, Palm 1, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Rick Becker-Leckrone CEO, Blend Images
Rick Becker-Leckrone has worked in the commercial stock photography business for over 17 years. In various roles as a photographer, editor, creative director, and technologist, Rick has had an opportunity to work with many of the top photo agencies and commercial advertising photographers in the U.S. and abroad. As Director of Content and Technology at upstart agency Digital Stock, Rick had an integral role in the development of the company and eventual sale to Bill Gates’ Corbis Images in 1998. Upon Digital Stock’s acquisition, Rick was promoted to Co-Director of Commercial Photography and had a unique opportunity to oversee the creative efforts and content development efforts of this world-class image collection. In 2001 Rick left Corbis to create imagery full time for Corbis, Getty Images and PictureArts. In 2004, Rick founded Blend Images, a stock collection emphasizing ethnic diversity. Blend Images is distributed by over 250 agencies world-wide. Blend Images has gained wide acceptance of as one of the strongest niche commercial stock collections in the industry.
Pricing The Image
How To Grow Revenue With Pricing Strategy Modifications
(Friday 6 June 14.00 – 16.00 H, Palm 1, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Hans-Jörg Zwez – Entrepreneur with heart and soul -
Hans-Jörg Zwez has been proprietor of mauritius images since 1972 and can look back onto 40 years of experience within the stock industry. Having started comparatively small, it is now a large, independent and owner-run agency representing 700 photographers and offering both Rights Managed and Royalty-Free imagery very successfully. Hans-Jörg Zwez was founding member of BVPA and has been a member of the pricing committee Mittelstandsgemeinschaft Foto-Marketing (MFM) in Germany since 1970.
One of his priorities has always been the build-up of international cooperations; there are more than 50 such cooperations in the meantime. mauritius images have been members of the international associations CEPIC and PACA for a long time and have joined BAPLA during 2008. At present, there are 80 employees and four offices in Mittenwald, Hamburg, Frankfurt and Vienna. mauritius images hold worldwide imagery in a mainly European style.
Pricing The Image
How To Grow Revenue With Pricing Strategy Modifications
(Friday 6 June 14.00 – 16.00 H, Palm 1, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

James Alexandre
James Alexander is Senior Vice President and General Manager of Jupiterimages, the third largest stock media company in the world with more than nine million images online serving creative professionals with brands like BananaStock, Workbook Stock, Brand X Pictures, Photos.com, Clipart.com and Stockxpert.com. Prior to managing Jupiterimages, James was Director of Product Management at Adobe for six and a half years where he created and managed Adobe Stock Photos. This unique service was deeply integrated into Adobe Creative Suite and was designed to help creative professionals find, try, manage and buy stock content more efficiently.
Prior to joining Adobe in 2001, James led venture-backed Mibrary Inc., a New York-based software start-up founded to make electronic books and other digital content easier for consumers to use. Prior to Mibrary, James co-founded the internet monitoring service eWatch, which was purchased by PR Newswire in 1999.
Early in his career, James spent several years as a professional photojournalist on assignment for Gannett and a variety of other regional and local daily and weekly newspapers. Later, he moved into television production for NBC Television Network and CBS Inc.
Pricing The Image
How To Grow Revenue With Pricing Strategy Modifications
(Friday 6 June 14.00 – 16.00 H, Palm 1, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Tim Harris
Tim entered the picture industry in 1983 as manager of the specialist nature library NHPA. He was instrumental in developing this collection into one of the world’s leading sources of nature and wildlife images to editorial and creative sectors. Since 2006 he has combined managing the Photoshot nature and garden collections (NHPA, Oceans Image, Photos Horticultural and Woodfall Wild Images) with heading up the Photoshot book sales team. Tim has chaired the BAPLA Rights Committee since 1999 and is a former member of the BAPLA Executive.
Pricing The Image
Is the UK a barometer of global pricing trends ?
(Friday 6 June 16.00 – 17.00 H, Palm 1, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Linda Royles, Chief Executive Officer
Linda works for BAPLA, the largest trade association of its kind in the world for over ten years and won the 2006 Outstanding Contribution to the Industry Award. Linda sits on numerous industry and government committees including the British Copyright Council and was till recently the Director of the Digital Content Forum. Linda advises on a number of government IP and cultural initiatives. Linda has worked on all BAPLA committees including the BAPLA rights committee. Under her leadership she started the Picture Buyers Fair, the largest event of its kind, the first industry survey, and has standards work in digital imaging.
Pricing The Image
Is the UK a barometer of global pricing trends ?
(Friday 6 June 16.00 – 17.00 H, Palm 1, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Joanna Santander, Alamy Images
Joanna gained her first experience on rights issues whilst working for a television production company negotiating rights with television stations throughout Latin America.
She joined Alamy in 2001 just after its inception and has been instrumental in building the sales function with particular focus on Alamy’s pricing structures and new business opportunities. Joanna manages Alamy's global distribution network, as a consequence she has constant exposure to the fluctuations and idiosyncrasies of pricing and rights across all territories and markets. She is a member of BAPLA's rights committee.
Pricing The Image
Is the UK a barometer of global pricing trends ?
(Friday 6 June 16.00 – 17.00 H, Palm 1, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Prof. Dr. Thomas Dreier
Thomas DREIER, Dr. jur. (Munich), M.C.J. (NYU), is Professor of Law at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, where he is the Director of the Institute for Information Law, and Honorary Professor at the Law Faculty of the University of Freiburg. Before joining the University of Karlsruhe, Prof. Dreier has been working at the Max-Planck-Institute for Intellectual Property Law in Munich, Germany. He has been an advisor to both the European Commission, the Council of Europe and UNESCO on copyright matters. Professor Dreier has also taught international intellectual property as visiting professor at the New York University, School of Law. Prof. Dreier is vice-president of the Association littéraire et artistique internationale (ALAI) and vice-chairman of ALAI’s German national group, and he acts as Executive Secretary of the German Computer Law Society (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Recht und Informatik e.V., DGRI). He has participated in CEPIC’s legal seminars in the past years.
Protecting Your Copyright in the World of Digital Imagery ?
Up-Date on Orphan Works and Legislation Affecting the Picture Industry
(Friday 6 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 2, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)
Checking privacy Issues
The Intrusion of Privacy
(Friday 6 June 14.00 – 16.00 H, Palm 2, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Rupert Grey
Rupert is a Consultant in the Litigation Group. Swan Turton specialises in libel and copyright law and has been involved in many leading cases in the field of media law. He has wide experience of pre-publication advice to national and provincial papers as well as dealing with claims: his clients include educational and other national institutions, as well as well-known private individuals. He advises photographers and syndication agencies on all aspects of copyright law, and regularly lectures and gives seminars in the UK and overseas on aspects of media law. he is a keen photographer.
Checking privacy Issues
The Intrusion of Privacy
(Friday 6 June 14.00 – 16.00 H, Palm 2, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Prof. Théo Hassler
Professor of IPR law at the University of Strasbourg/ France. As a Professor and former barrister his speciality fields amongst intellectual property law are : applications to firms of industrial property (domain names, trade marks, models and patterns, know how), internet law, personality rights (private life, right of image), communication law, copyright.
Protecting Your Copyright in the World of Digital Imagery ?
Up-Date on Orphan Works and Legislation Affecting the Picture Industry
(Friday 6 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 2, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)
Checking privacy Issues
The Intrusion of Privacy
(Friday 6 June 14.00 – 16.00 H, Palm 2, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Nancy Wolff
Nancy E. Wolff is a member of Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams & Sheppard, LLC, a New  York law firm specializing in entertainment law. She practices primarily in  intellectual property and new media law. Clients include trade associations  Picture Archive Council of America (PACA) and PLUS, Inc., stock photo libraries,  individual photographers, authors, illustrators, designers, publishers and new  media companies. She counsels clients in copyright, trademarks, licensing,  contract, rights of publicity and privacy and libel. In addition to transactional work, she represents clients in arbitration hearings as well as state and federal court civil actions. In May 2007 her book entitled “The Professional Photographer’s Legal Handbook” has been published by Allworth Press/PACA.
Protecting Your Copyright in the World of Digital Imagery ?
Up-Date on Orphan Works and Legislation Affecting the Picture Industry
(Friday 6 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 2, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)
Checking privacy Issues
The Intrusion of Privacy
(Friday 6 June 14.00 – 16.00 H, Palm 2, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Klara Skanska
Administrator at DG Internal Market of the International Commission.
Ms KANSKA works as a Policy Officer/Legal Adviser in the unit dealing with copyright and neighbouring rights of DG Internal Market of the European Commission. Ms KANSKA is responsible, inter alia, for Directive 2001/29/EC (Directive on Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society) and for Directive 96/9/EC (the Database Directive). She is also in charge of the coordination of infringement proceedings against Member States. Prior to joining the European Commission, Ms KANSKA worked as a researcher and junior lecturer in Community law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Warsaw. She also worked in the Warsaw office of the law firm Cameron McKenna.
Ms KANSKA defended her doctoral thesis at the University of Warsaw in 2007. Her thesis was entitled "Protection of Fundamental Rights by the EU". She holds an LL.M. degree from the London School of Economics and a law degree with distinction from the University of Warsaw. She is fluent in English, Spanish and Polish and has a good comprehension of French. She published numerous articles on Community law in Polish and international law journals.
Protecting Your Copyright in the World of Digital Imagery ?
Up-Date on Orphan Works and Legislation Affecting the Picture Industry
(Friday 6 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 2, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Kirsti O'Sullivan
Kirsti O'Sullivan is the founder and managing director of Keywording.com. After working for several years in knowledge management for Accenture, Kirsti joined a dynamic RF
stock company. During her tenure in the stock industry she recognized that keywording was a critical factor in image sales and an area under-served in the marketplace. This was the beginning of Keywording.com. Drawing on her stock experience and data managemant expertise, she developed proprietary software and a unique business model for keywording as an outsourced service. Realizing her vision for quality, consistent keywording, Kirsti launched Keywording.com in early 2003 and has since built a worldwide client base. She currently manages the business out of Portland, Oregon.
Keywording : Best Practices To Accommodate Distributors
(Saturday 07 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 2, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Andrew LaBonte (Corbis)
Andrew LaBonte has been working in the metadata field for over 15 years. He has worked in the Cataloging department at Corbis for the last 8 years as a cataloger, manager and currently as Senior Manager, Search Metadata, overseeing the keywording and controlled vocabulary teams.
Keywording : Best Practices To Accommodate Distributors
(Saturday 07 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 2, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Mary Forster (Getty)
Mary Forster is the Director of Search Data Strategy for Getty Images. She received her MLIS (Masters in Library and Information Science) in 1993, and since that time has focused on keyword-related issues at both Getty and Corbis. She has been a key part of a wide variety of efforts, such as designing keywoding and vocabulary management tools, managing keywording teams, and creating processes to integrate external keywords into internal systems.
Keywording : Best Practices To Accommodate Distributors
(Saturday 07 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 2, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Alan Capel (Alamy)
Alan Capel has worked in the Industry for over 18 years. Whilst working as a freelance cartoonist he stumbled across the world of stock and, except for a brief sojourn trying to sell expensive photographic art on the internet, has been here ever since. Alan started as a picture researcher at Tony Stone Images and then ran the physical inventory (a true 'library' of images) in the days before digital. He was instrumental in the switch from analogue to digital, specifically he developed the sophisticated keywording approach implemented by Getty. Alan joined Alamy shortly after its inception in 2000 and as Head of Content is responsible for the images themselves and the contributors who provide them. He is a regular speaker at Photographer events.
Keywording : Best Practices To Accommodate Distributors
(Saturday 07 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 2, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)

Janice Lodato (Jupiterimages)
Janice Lodato is Director of Search Data for Jupiterimages. Janice manages JI's keyworders and the business-side of the search engine. She has worked with metadata in various ways for the past 10 years, including creating a digital asset management system at an in-house advertising agency and managing cataloging of records for the National Science Digital Library's Grow Project (winner of the Macromedia MAX award in the Educational Experiences category). In Wilmington, Delaware, Janice was a photography instructor at the Delaware College of Art & Design. She has also widely displayed her fine art photography and received several grants, including Opportunity Grants from the Delaware Division of the Arts. Janice has a Master's degree in Applied Philosophy from Bowling Green State University and lives with her family in Peoria, Illinois.
Keywording : Best Practices To Accommodate Distributors
(Saturday 07 June 10.00 – 12.00 H, Palm 2, Level 7, Intercontinental Hotel Malta)