Places and ExplorOz Image Library

Submitted: Thursday, Mar 23, 2006 at 17:30
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Hi all,

This information will come out in the next newsletter however I thought I would pass it on early via the forum and get some feedback.

With the advent of Places it appears that we are building one of the first geo-referenced image libraries which contains Australian landmarks and tourism images. During our research of the Places images we became aware of a number of sites that "apparently" have images available for a fee. Most of them are rubbish or are very general. So we have decided to proceed with the places image library in such a fashion as to share the opportunity to generate a return on images you supply to the library.

As of now all places images have had a copyright notice overlaid to reduce/remove the ability for people to just download the image and use it without permission (as we already know this has happened - it is a pity to have to do this but seems to be the best way to protect our interests). We will add a message on the image display screens to advise people of the commercial costs of reuse of the images we have in the library (this will be based on resolution & size of the master image which you upload to the library). If someone wants to use an image we will return 50% of the nett revenue received to the submitter of the photo.

All the mechanics of this have not been built however I just wanted to gauge some feedback from those people who have submitted or would consider submitting images under this type of arrangement. All feedback on this topic welcome.
David (DM) & Michelle (MM)
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