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a21 signs letter of intent giving Applejack Art Partners majority stake in business
a21, Inc. (OTCBB: ATWO) one of the largest stock licensing companies in the world has announced that it has entered into a non-binding Letter of Intent (LOI) with Applejack Art Partners, Inc. of Vermont. Under the terms of the LOI, Applejack would purchase all of a21’s outstanding notes (a principal amount of $18,000,000) and all of the shares of a21 common stock (approximately 41 million shares). a21 would then exchange approximately 110 million newly issued shares of its common stock with Applejack in satisfaction of approximately $13,000,000 of such notes. “We are pleased to make an investment in a21 and believe that our complementary product offerings should result in greater sales opportunities and efficiency for both companies” stated Jack Appelman, Chief Executive Officer of Applejack.
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- PACA back in NYC for 13th annual international conference in October
- Book Review: Animalia by Henry Horenstein
- Dubai Photographers Agency launches Celeb Arabia
- Mr. Stock Smarty Pants tells what to do with all your travel and landscape imagery
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ATI News Round-Up
• Rob Haggart, the former Director of Photography for Men’s Journal and Outside Magazine discusses panel on stock photography.
• According to Angela Natividad of AdRants, PhotoShelter’s Shoot! the Day Brings Stock Photo Angst to the Fore.
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PACA back in NYC for 13th annual international conference in October
The Picture Archive Council of America (PACA), a trade organization for stock licensing companies, has announced that it will be hosting its popular annual international conference in New York City’s world-famous Financial District from October 24 - 26, 2008. The timing of the event has been coordinated in order to coincide with the photo industry’s biggest events including PhotoPlus (October 23-25) and Picturehouse (October 29) bringing photographers, stock agency personell, and photo buyers, to NYC from all over the world for an action packed week of networking and industry activity.
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Book Review: Animalia by Henry Horenstein
Animalia by Henry Horenstein
Pond Press (June 30, 2008)
80 pages/hardcover/64 duotone photographs/$40.00
Professor Henry Horenstein remixes his acclaimed photographs of land and sea creatures, adding 35 unpublished images, into his latest book, Animalia. His parade of subjects in sepia marches with pride and precision through the lens and into the mind’s eye. As an artist, Horenstein connects humans to animals though emotional macro studies. As a scientist, he patiently waits to press the shutter on an unsuspecting world.
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Dubai Photographers Agency launches Celeb Arabia
The Dubai based, Dubai Photographers Agency, has announced the launch of a new source for celebrity images from the middle east called Celeb Arabia. The company claims that the new site located at CelebArabia.com will be updated daily with entertainment photography including red carpet images, portraiture and assignments featuring A-list celebrities from around the world.
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Mr. Stock Smarty Pants tells what to do with all your travel and landscape imagery
You’ve undoubtedly been wandering around for weeks now, muttering to yourself: I wonder how the heck Mr. Stock Smarty Pants has been weathering this nasty economic downturn that I’ve heard so much about? Your concern is greatly appreciated, and MSSP wants to assure all of his loyal readers that he’s doing just fine, thank you. Oh, sure, the recession has caused him to tighten his belt just a bit: he’s had to temporarily discontinue stocking his cabinet with single-malt Scotches and switch to Dewar’s, and instead of three weeks on the Riviera in August, he’s prudently decided to cut back to just fourteen days on the French coast. But, MSSP remains generally optimistic about the state of the economy, and why shouldn’t he? He was wise enough to unload his Getty Images stock near its high of ninety five bucks a share back in the fall of 2005 instead of the puny $34 each sucker…uh, shareholder received when the company’s sale to Hellman & Friedman closed a few days ago! Hey, they don’t call him Mr. Stock SMARTY Pants for nuthin’!
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ATI News Round-Up
• Flowerphotos owner Carol Sharp puts out call for nature photographers to give back by contributing to new Greener Image charitable fund.
• Map Resources releases world vector maps with country names translated into French, Spanish, German, Italian & Dutch.
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Photographer Associations express concerns with Orphan Works bills S2913 and HR5889
For several years now the US Congress has been debating orphan works legislation which would allow publishers to use copyrighted works without a license in the event that it is difficult or impossible to identify and contact the copyright holder. As in recent years, organizations representing artists and copyright holders have made it clear that they cannot support this legislation in its current form. The Advertising Photographers of America (APA), the National Press Photographers Association (NPPA), the Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) and Editorial Photographers (EP) on behalf of their members are urging congress to change Orphan Works bills S2913 and HR5889 as they bad for copyright holders and inconsistent with international trade agreements.
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Pond5 launches micro-payment stock footage site with more than 50,000 clips
New York based Pond5.com, a micro-payment stock footage community site, has announced that it has emerged from beta testing with the launch of version 1.0 of its website. The new site, located at pond5.com, offers more than 50,000 broadcast-quality SD and HD clips available for instant download, starting at $5 per clip. Prices on Pond5 are controlled by the contributors and start at just $5, with an average price of around $40 for HD footage, and $20 for SD footage.
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AudioMicro now representing AE Music Publishing Archive and Ric Viers
Los Angeles based micro stock music licensing platform, Audio Micro, announces deal to represent the AE Music Publishing Archive (a division of Asylum Entertainment) and clips from world renowned sound designer Ric Viers. Having launched in May 2008 the fledgling site has now added a significant amount of content with over 1000 clips from the AE Music Publishing Archive, including work from multiple Grammy nominated composer, David Arkenstone, and over over 15,000 new sound effects from Ric Viers.
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Against the grain: ableimages launches into RM production
Amidst a steady pace of new RF production companies launching over the last few years and, more recently, a growing trend of would-be RF producers dedicating their efforts to producing for micro-stock, the founders of ableimages follow a different and, now, rarer, course; producing images strictly for Rights Managed distribution. The company recently launched a new web-site to coincide with its second release of imagery consisting of 1,000 new images bringing their numbers to almost 3000.
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Red Cover Picture Library issues statement about contributor payments
Last week The Press Gazette reported that Red Cover was unable to pay contributors due to looming debt woes in excess of £500,000 (approx $1 million USD). In response, the agency held a meeting with certain contributors and issued the following statement.
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Open Text’s Artesia Digital Media Group acquires eMotion from Corbis for $5 million
Waterloo, Ontario based Open Text Corporation, has agreed to acquire eMotion LLC from the Corbis Corporation for approximately $5 million in cash and assets. Open Text has stated plans to merge eMotion with its Artesia Digital Media Group in order to expand its enterprise marketing asset management solution, Artesia DAM. Corbis first acquired eMotion in 2005 in an apparent attempt to compete with to Getty’s Media Management Services. “eMotion is the right fit at the right time to expand our Artesia Digital Media Group, our portfolio of solutions for marketing departments, and our team of content experts who can innovate with customers and leverage their growing libraries of video, images and other rich media content in a Web 2.0 world,” said Scott Bowen, President of Open Text’s Artesia Digital Media Group.
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• Idée’s Multicolr Search Lab allows users to search for images by color from either Flickr or Alamy.
• Leslie Camhi of the Village Voice covers ”Framing a Century” exhibit at The Met.
