Dreamstime, the world's largest stock photography community, with 33 million users and 148 million images to this date, has recently released its new Upload section. Re-designed and finetuned for its 670,000+ contributors, the new upload integrates Dreamstime’s proprietary PhotoEye™ AI technology, prioritizes features based on popularity, adds an accessible mass file and metadata import solutions and allows instant connection with the dedicated mobile app.

In the open letter 110 pan-European cultural networks and associations, including CEPIC, call the European Union (EU) and EU member states to protect culture as part of the coronavirus recovery plans and dedicate at the very least 2% of national Recovery and Resilience Facility budget to culture and creative sectors.

Next to similar EU level calls to consider culture in recovery programmes, CEPIC has co-signed a German call for the cultural and creative industries to be included in all EU support programmes and national development programmes as a driving force for the economy as a whole.

Many photographers who have entered the stock photo business in the last 5 to 10 years have trouble understanding why photographers who have been producing stock photos since the 1980s and 1990s are so unhappy with how the business had declined. I’d like to provide a little historical perspective.

Rightholders criticise Ministry of Justice on copyright reform draft. "The legal position of the creative industries will be further weakened in relation to global platforms and established value creation models will be deprived of their basis" they say.

On 13 October 2020, the German Ministry of Justice and Consumer Protection (BMJV) published a draft bill for a law to adapt copyright law to the requirements of the digital internal market.

TopFoto’s archive is one of 445 heritage organisations across the country set to receive a lifechanging financial boost from the government thanks to the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund to help them through the coronavirus pandemic