The Flickr Collection debuts at gettyimages.com
Posted March 10th, 2009 at 9:00 pm by Kakul Srivastava, Flickr
16 Comments / Filed in: Trends & News
Last July, we announced an exclusive partnership between Flickr and Getty Images to form The Flickr Collection on gettyimages.com and offer a new kind of creative imagery collection for licensing. Today, we’re ready to debut the collection to the world.
First and foremost, we want to say congratulations to our members — this is truly a testament to their great work. Our community of more than 35 million members from all over the globe continue to amaze us with the authentic and individualistic images that they see in their daily lives and share on Flickr.
For the past few months, editors at Getty Images have been busy exploring the Flickrverse to find the right photos to be part of the collection – a task that is somewhat daunting when there are more than three billion images to choose from on Flickr. The goal was to choose photos that created a commercially viable collection, while preserving the inspirational and unexpected nature of the kinds of images that are so prevalent on Flickr. Like Flickr itself, this is a “living collection” and Getty Images will continue to add thousands of new images every month from here on out.
We see this as an exciting moment that’s breaking new ground for our members around the world, as well as the larger imagery industry. So what are you waiting for — start exploring the first set of photos on gettyimages.com/flickr.
Kakul Srivastava
Flickr General Manager
Photos courtesy of Flickr Collection/Getty Images
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Roberto Sena | March 10th, 2009 at 9:26 pm
Users who have their photos in the list will win something?
Nicki Dugan | March 10th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
You mean besides fame and glory?! The photographers whose photos have been chosen by Getty Images for the Flickr Collection will receive compensation whenever their photo is licensed by a Getty customer.
Interesting Blog | March 10th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Power of Flickr photography & social networking combined with commercial value of Getty images. Its a good news for the photographers around i believe.
Senthil | March 10th, 2009 at 10:10 pm
Great collection and combination…
rama | March 11th, 2009 at 12:37 am
i think Flickr is one of Yahoo’s big opportunity/revenue source, as long as it keeps innovating Yahoo can surely survive. Salute!
Apathix | March 11th, 2009 at 6:04 am
Cool photos!
Martijn | March 11th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Interesting scheme.
Getty Images is not a budget place in the world for imagery wouldn’t their customers attempt to cut out the middleman after finding the image on Getty?
After all, the high res version is available on Flickr and you can contact the copyright holder (in theory) through Flickr itself. Bit more work, but hundred of dollars might be some motivation.
Secondly, I am trying to find out how much the compensation for the copyright holders would be.
Is there a link? Getty charges US$ 49 for a restricted web-only images. So a high res, building sized poster would be quite a bit more expensive.
Finally, many of the images on Flickr are released under a creative commons license. It wouldn’t be nice if Getty would go after people using the CC version because they are trying to sell the same image. Probably my imagination but brought on by the friendly “US$ 150,000″ warning for “unauthorized copying” given in each Flickr pictures description on Getty image.
Web Design Blog | March 12th, 2009 at 3:13 am
Will this herald a generation of ‘Flickr Paperazzi’!?
videolar | April 5th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
Getty Images is not a budget place in the world for imagery wouldn’t their customers attempt to cut out the middleman after finding the image on Getty?
After all, the high res version is available on Flickr and you can contact the copyright holder (in theory) through Flickr itself. sikiş videoları Bit more work, but hundred of dollars might be some motivation.
Secondly, I am trying to find out how much the compensation for the copyright holders would be.
Is there a link? Getty charges US$ 49 for a restricted web-only images. So a high res, building sized poster would be quite a bit more expensive.
sikiş | April 24th, 2009 at 7:23 am
Will this herald a generation of ‘Flickr Paperazzi’!?
Manickam | August 11th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Nice collection.
farhan | August 18th, 2009 at 3:10 am
blogs are very usefull for everyone
farhan | August 18th, 2009 at 3:10 am
First and foremost, we want to say congratulations to our members — this is truly a testament to their great work. Our community of more than 35 million members from all over the globe continue to amaze us with the authentic and individualistic images that they see in their daily lives and share on Flickr. i like it very much
Manickam | September 22nd, 2009 at 2:58 am
Nice Stuff. Keep Rocking like this. Thanks for Sharing to all.
balon turu | October 3rd, 2009 at 11:16 am
nice.
sesli erotik hikaye dinle | October 6th, 2009 at 11:32 am
wery good fine web
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