Starting this week, the 40 million Flickr users may choose to sell their photos through the agency Getty Images, in an alliance that can become amateur photographers to professional lens.
The new system works like this: if a user decides to enter the scheme will appear in your photos a link pointing out that the image is for sale, and if anyone wants to buy will click on the link and will contact a representative of Getty.
The company did not disclose how much to charge for each picture, but taking into account the sales prices can be deduced that an image of 170 by 113 pixels can be sold for $ 7 and a 5616 by 3744 pixels would produce an income of up to $ 590.
Whoever decides to participate in this scheme have to click on the question "Would you like to license your photos via Getty Images?, That since Thursday next to their images.
After doing that you must choose one of three options: not to participate, participate or allow Getty to contact them if any image is of interest, but not publicly display your photos are for sale.
Flickr already had a partnership with Getty Images to sell photos, but it was a closed system. In it only a few photos were preselected by the site and then, after obtaining the consent of the authors - were sold to the agency. Now any user of the site can participate.
"The eyes of the world"
"Flickr users are the eyes of the world," said Douglas Alexander, Flickr's general manager told the BBC.
"We have people who contribute in more than 100 countries and the images coming from all over the world. The agreement expands the horizons and the global market of commercial photography and gives our users the chance to win money," said Alexander.
Some users of the network of photos that have participated in the scheme, have mixed feelings about its benefits.
"I work on my own and get a lot of work orders. I would say the third of my income comes from this deal which is good if you consider that I have about 200 photos on Getty and 2,500 elsewhere," shared Hal Bergman the BBC.
But others are not so happy. In the Flickr discussion forums, Aaron Reed said that the treatment is not always good.
"At first I was happy. I went and sold images. Since then I have 60 images in total for sale on your site. But then I noticed something new in its place (Getty) ... digital downloads. Here were my pictures being offered low resolution for $ 5 or $ 35. Want to know what my profit? Between $ 1 and $ 7. Am I happy that sell low-resolution images for $ 35 and give me $ 7? Absolutely not, "wrote Reed.
The announcement also caused no pleasure in the free software community has long called for "Creative Commons" license that allows free sharing photos from Flickr.
If a picture has this license means that anyone can use the image provided you cite the author of the picture and play under the same terms and conditions.
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