Game Change: Demotix and Corbis sign massive global distribution agreement

Congratulations for both Demotix & Corbis. Thank's for the update.

Congratulations and best wishes for both Demotix & Corbis.

excellent news guys, well done to all the team.

pete

Jai Ho!

Congrats Turi and the team!
This is a great news, long life to Demotix and partners :-)
Take care (hangover time) !

Great news, congrats for the community and Demotix team!!

Turi,
that's then good news! Was just afraid of some kind of "bulk sale"... as it is happened sometimes. So I came to join Demotix on recommendation of "Democracy Now" not some commercial media outlet.
Thank's for the update
Theodor

That is great-great news.
Congratulations for the team and the photojournalists of Demotix! .

Turi and team.
Well done with this agreement with Corbis. I'm hopeful that this new partnership, alongside the other progressive relationships already engineered by Demotix and enlightened media image sources, will gradually start to redifine 21st century photojournalism.

Now we´re talking !!! Congratulations that is great!! news!

Hello Turi,

Once again thank you for your and the team's hard work in establishing Demotix a relevant and respected agency in photojournalism.

This deal with Corbis, and the previous partners you have teamed up with, will give us more and new opportunities for our reporting.

If I may, I'd like to comment on your reply to @Theodor where you reply with Archives. Maybe this deal with Corbis is a good time to rethink the structure of archiving. At the moment there isn't a section where we can upload photos or specifically a class images as editorial stock; those tail end type of photos. At the moment it seems that such images have to be, sort of, included/smuggled in a news story. For example were do we upload an image, say of a country's flag, if it is not part of a story? I am sure the time has now come to rethink categories and certainly have a section for pure editorial stock. Maybe even the categories used by other partners subject of course to IP issues.

The other comment is regarding the tagging and classification system. This, of course, means more work for the IT team and sales, but maybe the tagging and classification system of images would be helpful if these were streamlined with the tagging system say of Corbis and the other big partners. My logic is that the more we can show our images in a format that these partners are familiar with the more they would feel comfortable coming back to Demotix. Of course, this would require some (maybe even a lot) of back office work.

But today congratulations are due on your achievements.

best

Lawrence

sound good for demotix community

Jumping in here! And sorry for the confusion. We sent out a mass email to contributors which we hoped answered most things, but here just posted the official press release.

So:

- THE most important thing first: Corbis will, of course, license pictures on an image-by-image basis. They'll work with us in exactly the same way we work with you, and the same way in which they work with all their photographers. Same model, same rates.

- Corbis will not be taking every image published on Demotix. They'll be taking an edited feed. @Nir asks how they'll choose, and the answer will of course be quality and salesworthiness, but based on a long-term as well as immediate sales needs. So they won't just be taking the breaking, or the features, or whatever. They'll be taking what they believe will sell across time and platforms.

- Corbis will be reporting every individual sale to us within 45 days.

- Corbis will be taking a small cut of revenues to cover their sales teams. In answer to @Derek, they'll be taking MUCH less than 50. We've negotiated, we think, the best deal for contributors in the industry here.

- Archive, in answer to @Theodor: Yes, we absolutely want Corbis to take an edit of our archive. They have 200 sales people around the world to promote it, and a very large proportion of their current sales are in the long-tail of magazines, books, etc... which is not breaking news. That edit has not kicked off. We'll flag this issue before it does, so that whoever does not want their images in the Corbis sales remit can take them out.

- On that note, please bear in mind you can jump ship immediately and at any time, by deleting yourself from Demotix: email community@demotix.com When you do, all your images drop too.

All thanks, and best!

Turi

Congratulations on another breakthrough in the evolution of photojournalism. A win/win deal for communication in the digital age. Well done!

Hi Turi,

this are interesting informations. I seriously ask the same question Nishant Ratnakar!!!
It is of very high importants that here are clear explanations regarding the agreeement. Transparency simply.
I have not upload too much here, so it is not a real concern yet. I also do not have any problems marketing my photo reports and stories as they are often made in a assignment, but especially this is the reason why I would like to see the conditions.
I have had in the past the hassle with DPA and their bloody tricky policies, so I started to work 100% independent. That works, so demotix is rather are carrier for the cyberspace and I will continue to upload but would be careful choose which and how many image about a topic if things are not transparent because these agencies are in kind of self destructing wars in underpricing each other. But the worse for an author and copyright holder are these deals and agreements which can change the whole outset as the first uploads had been made.

So, Turi, for the sake of clear conditions please do come up asap with very clear information what the role of Corbis will be. Does it concern just the images uploaded after Demotix Agreement with Corbis or does it include ALL images uploaded. The reasons are clear?

Bien à vous

Theodor

Hi Turi,

this are interesting informations. I seriously ask the same question Nishant Ratnakar!!!
It is of very high importants that here are clear explanations regarding the agreeement. Transparency simply.
I have not upload too much here, so it is not a real concern yet. I also do not have any problems marketing my photo reports and stories as they are often made in a assignment, but especially this is the reason why I would like to see the conditions.
I have had in the past the hassle with DPA and their bloody tricky policies, so I started to work 100% independent. That works, so demotix is rather are carrier for the cyberspace and I will continue to upload but would be careful choose which and how many image about a topic if things are not transparent because these agencies are in kind of self destructing wars in underpricing each other. But the worse for an author and copyright holder are these deals and agreements which can change the whole outset as the first uploads had been made.

So, Turi, for the sake of clear conditions please do come up asap with very clear information what the role of Corbis will be. Does it concern just the images uploaded after Demotix Agreement with Corbis or does it include ALL images uploaded. The reasons are clear?

Bien à vous

Theodor

Good development. But I have a serious question... what licensing model would corbis sell our images picked from Demotix? Rights managed or Royalty Free? And I think this is an important aspect. I personally never deal with royalty free licensing. I am always for rights managed.

Turi, can you please clarify on what model would this be?

Hoping to hear soon.

Thanks and Regards,
Nishant Ratnakar
www.nishantratnakar.com

Very nice!!

"Corbis will handpick a selection of images" - any idea yet what their criteria are?

Oh my God..!! This is such a big news for all of us. Congratulations..!!