Stock Index/index.php?q=IndustryNews&id_new=3063Impact Photos and Heritage Images will operate ongoing businessThe BAPLA website announced the following: Imagestate Media Ltd and Imagestate Media Partners Ltd will cease trading with immediate effect and have entered Administration. The assets of the above companies have been acquired by a new investor. The decline in the traditional stock photo business and increased competition on price in the market place has resulted in the erosion of sales volume and reduced our ability to compete effectively as a general stock library. Although the above companies have ceased trading the ongoing business of Imagestate will be managed by Impact Photos and Heritage Images will operate separately. The new investors see future opportunities to develop the existing platform and provide more competitive offerings in specialist areas for all our customers moving forward. The new organisation looks forward to working with its content partners, clients and its international network of agents. There will be a change in the management structure but familiar faces will remain. For further information please contact inform@imagestate.com This story courtesy of BAPLA Website: /www.imagestate.com/index.php?q=IndustryNews&id_new=3062Interesting article on a different pricing method on Selling StockIn these difficult industry times photographers and photo-libraries are struggling to find new pricing models to ensure that they get a decent return for their content and users are also not committed to unaffordable fees in this economic environment. Industry analyst Jim Pickerell, in an interesting article on Selling Stock, (subscription required), proposes instead of say a 5 year licence, a "leasing model", where there is an initial lower fee, for a launching product where the lifetime of the product is not known, and an annual fee. He gives the example of a clock product in development with various photos as the face designs - at this point nobody will know which will be the most popular designs. Pickerell also suggests that with the move to electronic book forms, circulation figures will be less useful than a licence for when the product is still selling - something easy to determine, and so the leasing model would be applicable there too. For greater detail on this subject, please go to Selling Stock. This story courtesy of Selling Stock Website: Selling Stock/index.php?q=IndustryNews&id_new=3061After restructuring, there will be a continued demand for Kodak film productsThe British Journal of Photography has an interesting article, following up on Kodak's filing for bankruptcy protection ("Chapter 11") in the USA. "Film (still and cinema) remains a profitable business for Kodak, and we have the broadest and most respected portfolio of films in both segments," Audrey Jonckheer, Kodak's worldwide director of marketing and public relations, told BJP."We have taken steps to sustain the business as it has declined, and we know that there are hundreds of passionate fans of film for the artistic and quality reasons they cite." With a streamlined product range and business, it is to be hoped that Kodak can continue providing the film that people love in a specialised niche for many years Article: "Film division is still profitable," says Kodak /index.php?q=IndustryNews&id_new=3060UK Judge decides that you can copyright similar subject matterIn a court ruling which extends copyright law in the UK a judge has ruled that you can infringe photographic copyright by creating a similar kind of photograph. Previously you could not copyright "an idea" so "passing off" rules previously meant that the photograph had to be nearly identical to infringe copyright. UK souvenir maker Temple Island Collection Ltd has won a ruling against a company called New English Teas which it had accused of breaching copyright by using a colourised photo of a London bus on its packaging. In the Patents County Court in London on 12th January Judge Birss QC decided that a photograph of a red London bus against a black and white background of Big Ben and the Houses of Parliament, with a blank sky, was similar enough to another photograph of the same subject matter to infringe copyright. This decision will have implications for photographers and photolibraries. In addition, the UK government has accepted a recommendation in the Hargreaves Report that there should be a "Small Claims" procedure for copyright claims of less than ?5000, which will make legal action more affordable in future and thus more likely. Websites: Photographers face copyright threat after shock rulingFull JudgementThe photos compared/index.php?q=IndustryNews&id_new=3059London showcase for photography will open greatly-enhanced ?8.9 million buildingThe Photographers’ Gallery will unveil its new home for international and British photography in the heart of London's Soho on Saturday 19th May 2012. The Gallery’s opening will mark the conclusion of its ambitious ?8.9 million capital campaign, which has been generously supported by Arts Council England’s Lottery Fund alongside a range of Trusts, Foundations, corporates and individuals. Designed by award-winning Irish architects O’Donnell + Tuomey, the transformed building features a two storey extension that will double the size of the previous exhibition space. Providing a platform for an enhanced programme of exhibitions, the generously proportioned galleries will showcase established and emerging photographic talent from the UK and around the world. A new environmentally-controlled floor will create opportunities to show more work from archives and museum collections and higher ceilings in the top floor galleries will provide dynamic spaces for large-scale and moving image works. Opening Programme The renowned Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky and New Delhi based Raqs Media Collective will launch the 2012 exhibition programme on Saturday 19 May 2012. This major solo exhibition of Edward Burtynsky’s photographs will showcase over thirty large-scale images from his widely acclaimed series OIL. A decade-long survey on the subject, OIL reveals the rarely seen mechanics of the manufacture, distribution and use of one of the world’s most highly contested resources while exploring its impact on our lives, culture and the environment. Raqs Media Collective will display a silent, looped video projection titled An Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale (2011). The projection features a series of subtle alterations to an early 20th century photograph depicting a surveyors’ room in colonial Calcutta. Also included in the exhibition will be a sculptural work entitled 36 Planes of Emotion (2011) that features an ensemble of emotional states printed onto book-shaped objects. The two opening exhibitions will be on display until 1 July 2012. Website: The Photographers' Gallery/index.php?q=IndustryNews&id_new=3058Drama and Documentary about how Bailey shaped modern photographyBBC 4 has just premiered a pair of films about legendary fashion photographer David Bailey - always known by just his surname in the industry - "We'll Take Manhattan" is a drama about when Bailey and his muse, model Jean Shrimpton revolutionised the stuffy world of fashion photography in on shoot for Vogue in New York in 1962. It is a compelling film - cockney newcomer wuth talent versus hoity-toity titled matriarchs who run the magazine. It stars Aneurin Barnard as Bailey and Dr Who's companion Karen Gillen, showing that she has an acting range, and also can do a very good posh English accent. Paired with this was a documentary: David Bailey - Four Beats to the Bar and No Cheating about his career and the wide range of photography genres and other media he has worked in: painting, sculpture, film-making. It used footage and stills combined with the inimitable Bailey talking about his work, and the remarkable women he interacted with both professionally and in his personal life. Websites: Bailey's 1962 shootWe'll Take Manhattan/index.php?q=IndustryNews&id_new=3057Five new creative agencies join WildcardJanuary brings news from WIldcard. They have updated their library with the introduction of 2,500 new images from five of their creative agency collections. This new selection consists of both Royalty Free and Rights Managed images and offers a varied array of travel, life style and art photography. The collections are from Glasshouse, Look-foto, PhotoAlto and fStop and are available from the Wildcard website. Website: www.wildcardimages.com/index.php?q=IndustryNews&id_new=3056Art library features beautiful Chinese dragon images for book covers2012 is the year of the dragon. The dragon is the fifth sign in the Chinese Horoscope and signifies luck. As January is traditionally a month of reflection, Bridgeman Art Library are looking at beautiful book covers using their licenced imagery in 2011, and also feature best selling images for the year and commemorate the artists we have lost. Their latest newsletter covers this, and other Bridgeman News Bridgeman January Newsletter Featured collections include Lucian Freud, the great British artist died last year and many of his paintings are available. Bridgeman also has new collections including unseen images of The Titanic by Father Brown and a collection of artistic nudes. They have also compiled a "Top of the Pops" - a list of their best-selling images in 2011. Website: www.bridgemanart.co.uk /index.php?q=IndustryNews&id_new=3055TopFoto's well-liked photolibrary and picture researcher trade show enters second yearLast year was the debut of fotofringe, TopFoto's idea for an event to bring picture suppliers into contact with publishers/picture researchers/art buyers in a relaxed and productive atmosphere. It was a roaring success and now it is coming back for a second year. 80 picture suppliers are booked; one single day. This means researchers can meet, source ideas and collections, find deals and pricing agreements. The event location is as before, the Kings Place arts and media hub in London, just north of Kings Cross railway station. Date: 26th April 2012, Time: 9 am to 5 pm. Venue: Battlebridge Room at Kings Place, 90 York Way, London, N1 9AG. Click here to register The event is the brainchild of high-quality image library TopFoto, so make sure to visit their TABLE BB/21. A list of exhibitors attending can be found at the fotofringe website. Websites: www.TopFoto.co.ukwww.fotofringelondon.com/index.php?q=IndustryNews&id_new=3054New York museum has early photographs from legendary filmakerStanley Kubrick, the legendary filmmaker who directed such classic films as Lolita, The Shining, and 2001: A Space Odyssey, started his career at the age of 17 as a staff photographer for LOOK Magazine in 1945. Similar to Life, LOOK was an early picture magazine and it proved an excellent training ground for the gifted Kubrick as he developed his photographic eye. Kubrick spent five prolific years with the magazine, during which time he produced in-depth and sometimes humorous stories that foretold the visual storytelling he would later become known for. He used light and shadow, surprising juxtapositions, tension, and wit to create visually compelling images. Photographs of nightclubs, street scenes, and sporting events were among his first published images, and in them Kubrick captured the pathos of ordinary life in a way that belied his young age. The Museum of the City of New York's LOOK archive includes 129 of Kubrick's New York assignments, comprising more than 12,000 negatives. Currently around 8,000 of these images are online and available for research and licencing. Website: Museum of the City of New York