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July 9, 2008: Getty Images and Flickr have announced a partnership to establish the first commercial licensing opportunity for photo-enthusiasts in the Flickr community.
The new venture allows Getty Images to invite Flickr members to participate in a Flickr branded collection that will be available for licensing to Getty Images' creative, commercial and editorial customers in the coming months. The Flickr collection will feature photography selected by Getty Images editors based on their expertise in licensing digital content and insights into customers' needs.
In the next several months, Getty Images will begin inviting selected Flickr members who will have the choice to participate in the collection. The two companies are collaborating to build online tools to help editors contact Flickr members, and to add images to the new collection. Over the next several months, thousands of high-quality images will be available for licensing with a goal of making many more available over time.
Getty Images will be the exclusive commercial rights manager of the photos selected for the collection. Flickr members will benefit from Getty Images' global sales and distribution teams helping to market their images and from Getty Images' expertise and experience in rights and clearances of visual content. Getty Images' customers will benefit from the fresh, unique and individualistic perspectives of members within Flickr's global community. More information on the different ways imagery can be licensed on www.gettyimages.com can be found at: http://www.gettyimages.com/Corporate/LicenseInfo.aspx.
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