“We want to make it easy to attribute any stock image to its original author, and facilitate sales,” reads the Idée announcement that urges operators of large image collections to add them to the company’s image search engine TinEye.
After announcing last week that TinEye has ingested the inventories of iStockphoto and PhotoShelter, the Canadian company says it plans to add other specialized collections, starting with libraries of over 1 million images and companies that have existing image management and delivery procedures. These include stock, editorial, archival and historical image collections, art and illustration collections, and product image indexes and catalogs.
Individual galleries, such as Flickr streams, will be added later. Larger galleries are encouraged to contact Id&nzc;eacute;e via email.