Stock photography website Corbis is allowing bloggers to download their pictures on blogs for free without having to worry about “copyright infringement” - in return Corbis will embed a banner ad beneath the photograph or image.
There exists dozens of stock photography websites offering royalty free pictures at no cost but the Corbis advantage is that they have tie ups with big news agencies like Reuters so you could gain “legal access” to photographs that are otherwise extremely expensive.
According to Reuters, you can download Corbis pictures from PicApp website (currently in private beta) and they will be tracked automatically. The photos will either include an ad overlay on part of the image, or embedded advertising that pops up when you move the cursor over the picture.
PicApp follows a CPC based model and shares revenue based on the number of clicks made my visitors on the image but it is not clear if Corbis has any plans to share advertising revenue with publishing sites.
Corbis is privately owned by the same person who started Microsoft - Bill Gates.
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/internet/blogging/download-copyright-pictures-from-corbis-legally/1860/
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Reader Comments
Thats great to know for us bloggers who use a lot of images on our sites.
I would love to take more of my photos, but just don’t get the time.
Regards.
Written by jsanderz on 11.28.07
Hi thanks for that info….
Can I use those things in googlepages.com ?
Written by SATISH on 11.28.07
That sounds very similar to AdBrite’s BritePic service.
Another nice way I’ve found to add some good images on my blog is to sign up as an affiliate for allposters.com and then I can link to their images and make $ if anyone wants to buy it!
Written by pogue on 11.29.07
Good idea, it will be interesting to see how the banners and ads look when in use.
Cheers,
Bionic
Written by Bionic Beauty on 11.29.07
Corbis joins the picapp platform!
PicApp is an independent platform, with several content partners including Corbis.
For more information, please view PicApp’s blog -http://picappcom.typepad.com/
Written by Scooti on 12.12.07