Ubiquitous Use Debate Misses Mark

Posted on 4/5/2010 by Julia Dudnik Stern | Printable Version | Comments (3)

Chris Barton, a photographer and the managing director of Photographers Direct, has written an article highlighting multiple uses of the same microstock image and asking why a reputable company would do this to itself. There are numerous answers, and most are so mind-bogglingly simple as to make anyone wonder why stock-industry insiders are still having this meaningless debate.

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Chris Allen Posted Apr 6, 2010
GREAT ARTICLE
John Harris Posted Apr 6, 2010
Hi Jim. You are right in that most smaller businesses won't care that they are using the same image - though the bigger ones will. Of course some customers do want something other than the ubiquitous, generalisable, generic image with its' endless positivism and want specific, real pictures of the social world "warts n'all" as Cromwell put it. We need to further develop and maintain a differentiated market that makes these "hard to do" pictures possible.

John Harris reportdigital.co.uk
Peter Dazeley Posted Apr 8, 2010
Chris Barton, a photographer and the managing director of Photographers Direct, has written an article highlighting multiple uses of the same microstock image and asking why a reputable company would do this to itself.

THIS LINK FAILS TO WORK?

many thanks, Sarah @ Peter Dazeley

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