Re: [Leica] Corbis and Bill Gates question.

[Johnny Deadman <john@pinkheadedbug.com>]

There are other -- very exciting -- models than each photographer running
his/her own agency, and which potentially release photographers from the
tyranny of Gates and the agencies -- but they rely on technological
developments which are just over the horizon. Watch this space. Remember
what happened to the library at Alexandria.
- -- 
Johnny Deadman

http://www.pinkheadedbug.com


> From: apbbeijing <apbbeijing@yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2000 08:12:29 +0800
> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Corbis and Bill Gates question.
> 
> on 6/10/00 2:31 AM, Johnny Deadman at john@pinkheadedbug.com wrote:
> 
>> Gates knows that content is king. He is building the library of Alexandria.
>> It's a very smart move IMO. All those agencies are going to start looking
>> very undervalued when Gates owns them all.
> The only problem is that neither he nor the agencies own the content. The
> lawyers are trying their best to change that it seems though. There is one
> other thing: in common with most Internet start ups they have no business
> model to speak of and the only way to make their editorial photography
> business to look like it is growing is to buy out more and more agencies. So
> far this has resulted in greater and greater losses in $s and defections of
> photographers and agency staff.
> 
> I was with Saba for ten years until this summer when I reluctantly left
> after he sold out to Gates. My feeling is that the only way forward will
> soon be for each photographer to run their own mini agency on the 'net,
> hassle though that will be for all concerned. In the meantime I am with
> Getty which is in much the same situation as Corbis only as a publicly
> listed company far more accountable. My photos are still my photos and will
> remain that way unless a very very good reason to change that comes along.
> 
> Rs
> 
> Adrian
> 
> p.s. what happens to the copyright of all the film work you do after the
> initial usage?
> -- 
> Adrian Bradshaw
> Corporate and Editorial Photography
> Beijing, China
> tel/fax +86 10 6532 5112
> mobile +86 139 108 22292
> e-mail apbbeijing@yahoo.com
> OR adrianpeterbradshaw@compuserve.com
> 
> website:   http://www.apbphoto.com
> http://www.liaisonintl.com/bradshaw.htm
> 
> 
> 
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