Citing a recent decline in core business and poor second-quarter earnings, Getty Images announced the elimination of 100 jobs. This follows an earlier round of layoffs Getty ordered after it acquired MediaVast, which owns the stock agency WireImage.

Second-quarter declines for Getty were most obvious in its licensing sector, where volumes were down 11 percent in royalty-free imagery and 6 percent for rights-managed imagery, compared with the same period last year. A glitch in Getty's online footage...

The 10-year-old back-and-forth copyright infringement dispute between the National Geographic Society (NGS) and photographer Jerry Greenberg has taken yet another turn. In September, the U.S. Court of Appeals said it will reconsider its June 2007 decision to vacate a jury award in favor of Greenberg.

Greenberg originally sued NGS in 1997, claiming that the publisher used his images on a CD-ROM compilation without his permission. Her contended that the CD-ROM was not a revision of past work but a new product. NGS countered that the CD was legitimate because it was a compilation of all...

Due to the recent uproar from several photography groups, Getty Images has announced a small concession regarding its recent posting of a $49 price for stock images on their web site. Getty's executive vice president for imagery issued a statement explaining the company's decision to reduce the duration of rights-ready and rights-managed web-resolution licenses from a year down to three months.

Originally, the company introduced a pricing plan that was a breakthrough in the industry, pricing almost any online photograph from Getty at $49. The pricing plan included creative, news, sports, entertainment or archival images for online usage of a 500-kilobyte file at 72 dpi. The Image Source and Arnold Newman collections were...

 The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin has acquired the archive of photographer Arnold Newman.

Newman, who died in June 2006, was recognized as a master of environmental portraits taken in the subjects' personal or professional surroundings. His work includes images of such 20th-century luminaries as Lyndon Baines Johnson, Pablo Picasso and Truman Capote.

The archive spans the late 1930s to the current decade...

Citing construction in the neighborhood, as well as the proliferation of galleries showing and selling photographic works, Guy Swanson has closed his Photographic Image Gallery in Portland, Ore., after nearly 23 years. Swanson will teach a class for artists at Portland Community College, and has teamed up with Cherie Hiser to do seminars, workshops and portfolio reviews...

Although the official film of the execution of Saddam Hussein stopped short of his actual death, viewers around the world were privy to his final seconds thanks to an enterprising Iraqi citizen with a cell-phone camera.

Baby boomers may remember Dick Tracy's wristwatch/camera/phone, but few of us really expected to see them on a daily basis in schools, convenience stores, ball games and everywhere else people gather.

Video produced via cell phone has found a perfect outlet...

At the suggestion of the News Media Guild's health and safety committee, the Associated Press will fund a $20,000 study of pho-tographer and videographer injuries that will serve as the basis for an injury prevention program, the guild reported on its web site.

Surveys conducted by the guild over a six-year period revealed that photographers and videographers, who make up 10 percent of AP's workforce, accounted for approximately 40 percent of the company's reported injuries. Nearly two-thirds of the respondents...

The Stock Artists Alliance (SAA), an international association of stock photographers, has voted to expand its mission to address the business interests of all professional stock photographers. Previously, SAA limited its purview to the licensing of rights-managed images.

SAA's board of directors proposed the amendments to the association's bylaws to recognize the evolution within the current membership. The changes, the directors claim, will strengthen the association and increase its influence in the industry. SAA holds that the best business models for photographers are those that manage usage and protect intellectual property.

Last year, an SAA survey of its members revealed...