I just did a post at my microstock photography blog (here) on the new relationship between Getty and Flickr. Most of that posts was targeted to microstock but my conclusion was that the photographer at Flickr wont see much change but:
I don't know why Flickr didn’t try to monetise their photos on their own site. Why didn’t they go down the line of Zooomr’s aborted “marketplace” or new entrant Photrade who plan on being a hybrid community site like Flickr but have the built in ability to sell and monetise your photos.
For more commentary from difference perspectives see:
Lee Torens (microstock photographer) here
Thomas Hawk (Flickr power users) here and here
PDN Pulse (photography news) here
Techcrunch (Tech news) here
1 comment:
Good call on Flickr, I'm not sure why they didn't help photographers in that respect either, and I think you are exactly right Getty will benefit more than Flickr users.
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