Update: DACS, Payback and Creators' Rights
As you may be aware, there are changes to DACS' Payback scheme that have been forced on photographers and DACS by the Copyright Licensing Agency.
Rex - a gross betrayal of trust
Today Rex Features, a long established and, until recently, respected photo library has emailed all its contributors admitting that a number had been defrauded.
"No agenda, no attitude": Mike King the Master Craftsman of Sports Photography
The untimely death last week of the award-wining sports photographer and all round good guy Mike King sent shock waves through the profession.
Alamy in the rear view mirror
From their launch in 1999 Alamy had promoted themselves as the photographer-friendly stock agency. Back then they made promises like "It's not like you are entering an arrangement that ties your images up for a lengthy amount of time." Come February 2015 and they are claiming perpetual and irrevocable rights.
ALAMY concedes to EPUK campaign
Following a campaign by EPUK the stock agency Alamy has conceded that amendments to its contributor contract, which were due to come into force on April 1st, would be withdrawn and replaced with amended terms more in line with photographers' demands.
