Recommend Image Library? 1

[Hondy]

Hi

Can anyone recommend a low cost image library that I can publish the images on the internet as part of my site? i.e. I don't want to pay per impression or anything like that, i want to pay a subscription to the library and use the images how I like. I'm not going to be reselling them or anything i just want to be able to publish generic photos with my articles and use them in ad banners etc.

The library should contain the following image categories:
gambling/horse racing/football etc, images along those lines. They don't need to be Getty quality or anything, just good stock photos.

Any recommendations?

Thanks

 

[traingamer]

A quick search of this forum for 'stock photos' returns this thread: thread253-1412925 as well as many others.

Greg
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[imeldesign]

istockphoto.com

 

[Foamcow]

I favour istockphoto.com but we also use fotolia.com (it's very similar, but has a larger UK bias sometimes).

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[Hondy]

Thanks guys - istockphoto.com looks pretty good.

One thing though, a standard license is the following:

"1. Reproduction / Print Run Limits

The Standard License Agreement limits the amount of times you may print the Content to 500,000 reproductions. By purchasing this extension, you can make an unlimited number of reproductions."

So does this mean that after 500,000 impressions for example that the license runs out? Also the multi seat item is a bit restrictive too, if I download the image for use on the website and it became part of the logo etc. Anyone who then modifies the logo in anyway is surely subject to the multi user license which if it wasn't bought like that is then in breach of the license, arghhh

so an image would cost about £300 for an extended license with multi user - this seems a little steep for a photo which has probably been used many times before by other people!

Or maybe i got all that wrong?

Cheers

 

[Hondy]

In the real world is that all nonesense? You pay for it, download it, and use it on the basis that at least you aren't stealing it using Google?!

Licensing terms often seem unrealistic, how are you possibly supposed to count 500,000 impressions of a photo and who is going to check? Or is this question not something that can't be answered because in the real world people just take the sensible route and pay for the image and use it reasonably - but people don't want to admit it?

I'm not trolling, I'm genuinely interested how people do it. Especially web developers that use images in their sites, do they really charge customers £300 per photo that is in the site? Or have I completely misunderstood?

Thanks!

 

[Foamcow]

The licensing for iStock doesn't apply to web images in teh same way as it does for print.

This additional royalty does not apply to advertisements in magazines, newspapers or websites or to broadcast by television, web-cast or theatrical production.

Basically you can use the royalty free image in, for example, a brochure, magazine, website etc.

You cannot use it in a way that means you are essentially selling the image. E.g. You can't put it on a t-shirt and sell that.
If you do that then you need an extended licence and if you have an extended licence then you must declare if you are creating more than 500,000 copies of the image and declare this each month.

It's quite simple to control the number of copies made if you are physically printing the image. You just count them.

You could also monitor how many times the image was 'copied' by being downloaded from a website in the normal use of a site but I don't feel that the iStock licence agreement will limit this.

If the image is altered or combined with something else to make a new, derivative work and so long as the original image is not extractable then that's OK too. It's a derivative work.

The agreement is mainly aimed at stopping the re-sale of an iStock image.

In short:
Buy the image to use in your work. But don't resell that image in any form unless you have prior permission (an extended licence).

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[Hondy]

Thanks for taking the time to respond - I'm glad to get a response from a webdesigner. Your answers are always mega helpful, have a star!