Saturday, 9 August 2008

Picapp: Legal use of coyright images for free

Picapp makes it easy and legal to usee coyright images for free.

Small online publishers such as bloggers will be glad to know they can now access licensed images from popular sources such as Getty Images for free.

Using the Picapp tool is easy and will allow thousands of bloggers to include photographs images without worrying about breaking copyright laws or breaking the bank to pay the license fees!

Making Splash content available through PicApp offers an innovative way for thousands of blog sites to enter the content licence market by utilizing our images with PicApps ad-funded technologies and in turn, exposes our rich database of images to millions of people. Splash teams with PicApp to reduce online piracy and to create a new media revenue stream for its contributors,” said Gary Morgan, CEO of Splash News, in a press release on July 7, 2008..

We've had quite a bit of feedback from our online publisher community that suggests that celebrity/entertainment images are difficult for them to attain, primarily due to the high licensing costs and the importance of the delivery timeliness, Eyal Gura, CEO, PicScout, said. Working with Splash gives online publishers easy access to Hollywood celebrities - photos that they couldn't afford before."

Adding Splash content to PicApp's broad image library brings PicApp closer to being the de facto "one-stop-shop" for the widest range of images for bloggers, in many popular categories, including sports, technology, fashion - and now, more than ever, entertainment.

In addition to Getty Images other news and photo agencies license their images to Picapps including Splash News, Corbis and Image Source

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The sample image in this blog post shows latest big brother evictee Dale Howard on his eviction night. Purchasing a year long licensing fee for a medium resolution version of this image from a photo agency would cost around £40 whereas it is free using Picapp.

License fees can vary for photographs depending on your intended use, industry, duration and exclusivity. The above is just a random example of a recent news related image.