Zuma Press, an independent press agency and wire service, won the contract for exclusive worldwide rights to syndicate the picture content of the weekly Sporting News, with in excess of 700,000 images dating back more than 118 years. The Sporting News archive has been incorporated into Zuma's web site, zumapress.com, and made available for immediate syndication by clients around the world.

Highlights include portraits of baseball's early stars by Charles M. Conlon, plus more than 300,000 historical, black-and-white images that document baseball throughout most of the 20th century. Nearly as many images cover football, basketball and hockey.

The American Society of Media Photographers has posted a new copyright tutorial on the public area of its web site at asmp.org/copyrightt. Although modern law gives independent photographers an automatic copyright at the moment a picture is taken, certain procedures must be followed to obtain the maximum legal protection for the photographer's rights. The tutorial details those procedures, providing step-by-step instructions and annotated sample forms.

In addition, the tutorial explores several copyright-related issues of importance to photographers, such as pictures of public buildings and the distinctions that courts use in deciding whether two images are substantially similar.

Sports Illustrated has launched a new web site featuring the magazine's photography at sipictures.com. The site was designed for photo editors, art buyers and corporate clients interested in licensing the images that have been appearing in the magazine since 1954.

The inventory is drawn from Sports Illustrated's archive of more than 3 million pictures. The online gallery, which will be updated continuously, contains a broad range of sports images, from athlete portraits to behind-the-scenes coverage of major sporting events. Among the photographers represented are the magazine's 18 current staff photographers, as well as more than 100 of its contributing photographers, including Walter Iooss Jr., Neil Leifer, John Zimmerman and Hy Peskin.

The Stanford University Libraries have acquired the complete archive of photographer Douglas Menuez, which encompasses his editorial photojournalism and fine-art documentary work as well as recent advertising projects. Most significant, the library believes, is the inclusion of more than 250,000 negatives documenting the growth of Silicon Valley.

Menuez's rise to prominence began as an intern at the Washington Post, followed by assignments for national publications including Time, Newsweek and Life. Through the course of his career, his social documentary work covered the famine in Ethiopia, the destruction of the Amazon, the AIDS crisis, drug wars and several presidential campaigns. He won numerous awards...

Microsoft has teamed with Fuji Photo Film USA to connect digital photographers with retailers for convenient printing of digital pictures. Fujifilm's Get the Picture Online service is now accessible through the Windows XP Online Print Wizard, MSN Photos and Microsoft Digital Image Suite. This will allow consumers to order professionally processed digital prints directly from a Windows XP-based PC for pickup in as little as an hour at participating Fujifilm retail photo centers, including those at Sam's Club, Ritz Camera Centers and Wolf Camera.

Once a photo or group of photos is selected on the Windows XP desktop, consumers can click on the Order Prints Online icon and elect to pick up their prints at the photo center of their choice or have them mailed to their homes. Pickup locations are chosen via...

London-based Alamy Images has joined the Image Partner Program of OnRequest Images, Custom Stock, with headquarters in Seattle. Alamy will market OnRequest photography on its stock site at alamy.com, allowing clients to search and license images online.

The creation of the Image Partner Program and partnership with Alamy enables OnRequest Images to increase the exposure of its more than 1,600 professional photographers.

The Alamy web site was launched in February 2001 to provide a single source for royalty-free and traditionally licensed images. Currently, it offers access to the work of more than 2,500 photographers and 175 specialist agencies...

Reuters.co.uk has launched a photo section featuring the work of the Reuters International team of photographers. Visitors to the site can choose from a range of galleries offering images related to world news stories, major sporting events and the entertainment world, taken by the service's network of 600 photographers. The site also offers animated slide shows displaying some of the more striking collections of recent Reuters photography, and allows users to browse and buy prints.

New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority is seeking to ban photography from the city's subways and buses, and the National Press Photographers Association is asking journalists to join in the fight against the proposed ban by submitting public comments. The change in MTA policy would make photography on the historic subway system punishable by a $25 fine and up to 10 days in prison, according to NPPA. The MTA cites the need to increase security on the transportation lines and to prevent terrorism as the reasons for the ban.

Although the proposed regulations contain an exception for journalists with NYPD press...