Want to join the program? You have to wait. Getty will contact you (the program is entirely opt-in, BTW). Scanning will involve new technology developed jointly by the two companies. The actual rates have not been disclosed yet, but they are expected to be comparable to the rates Getty normally pays.
In a press release, Jonathan Klein, co-founder and CEO of Getty Images said:
"We are excited and proud to be partnering with Flickr to offer our customers even more choice for their projects. Our customers will be able to select and use the best imagery from a fresh collection of high-quality images chosen by us from Flickr's diverse and prolific community. Flickr is the ideal partner as we continue to move the imagery industry forward by offering the broadest range of high quality digital content to our customers."
What's interesting is that besides the press release, Flickr had a short blog post that indicate that the Collection would be royalty-free:
The great folks at Flickr and Getty Images are joining forces to build a platform that will enable the creation of a first class collection of royalty free, rights ready, and rights managed photographs that will debut later this year.
Hard to understand the differences between the two launches, but since Getty does have royalty-free content as well, it's possible this is just poorly worded. Or perhaps they are different initiatives. We will find out as time goes on.
Anyway, those of you with large Flickr collections might start hoping for an email.
Oh, and it's not said, but I think you can assume: if you have stu
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