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  • NEITHER GREEN NOR RED ...

    Neither green nor red, but blinking lights for search engines in Europe displaying thumbnail images. Thumbnails are reproductions. But does it mean that their display by a search engine constitute an infringing act? Read more

  • GOOGLE and CEPIC

    At last someone has come up with a way of monetizing content on the web. Read more

  • About Google Images and Image Search Ads

    Technology is out there enabling wonderful images to be seen. Google Images shows us how to make money with images, not by producing and selling them, but by showing them at random next to an advertisement and selling the advertisement. Read more

  • The Picture Industry is getting smaller

    For the first time since CEPIC's foundation, the number of picture agencies represented has decreased. Read more

  • My first impressions of Istanbul

    I left Bath early on Friday morning for Istanbul with an open mind, and keen to fill it with new experiences from Turkey, to discover whether it would indeed make a great destination for the CEPIC Congress. Read more

  • The History of German Picture Agencies - Part Two

    Innovation, market changes, new technology: A tough challenge for all members of the picture market in the nineties of the last century.. Some of them had the right feeling what the new direction would look like. They reacted right on time. Read more

  • Greetings from Istanbul!

    After Valencia last week, we have now gone for a site inspection in Istanbul, from 06 August to 08 August. As a door to Asia, we think it may be an excellent venue for a CEPIC Congress. Read more

  • Greetings from Valencia!

    Valencia and Istanbul are competing to be Congress venue next year in 2011! The final decision will be in August based on the results of the site inspections. First venue to be visited: Valencia. Read more

  • The History Of German Picture Agencies - Part One

    A look at the changes of the Picture Industry on the German market within the last two decades. The first part is about the Old School saying goodbye to transparencies, meeting new technologies and being confronted by the growing giants of the picture industry. Read more

  • Thumbnails illegal in Sweden - Judgement in Supreme Court

    The Supreme Court in Sweden has recently decided that to publish little pictures as small as thumbnails or stamps without the copyright owner’s permission are illegal. Read more