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Subject: Recent Press Release from PLUS
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:25:50 -0500
From: Dustin Wees <[log in to unmask]>
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Friends,
Some of you may be interested in this recent announcement.
Best wishes,
Dustin
Dustin Wees, VRA representative to the PLUS board
Director of Metadata and Cataloging
ARTstor
151 East 61st Street
New York, NY 10065
212-500-2407
MAJOR PUBLISHERS ADOPT THE PLUS IMAGE LICENSING STANDARDS New York, NY -
November 10, 2008 - Three major publishers have called for the adoption
of the PLUS (Picture Licensing Universal System) standards by picture
archives, photographers and all other image suppliers. Representatives
of McGraw Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, and Pearson each announced
that they will adopt the PLUS Picture Licensing Glossary definitions in
their contracts, and that they encourage image suppliers to begin
embedding PLUS license metadata in all images within one year. The
publishers voiced their support at the "PLUS Takes Root in the
Publishing Industry" event hosted by the Picture Archive Council of
America, during their International Conference in New York City. The
PLUS standards were developed by the PLUS Coalition, an international
non-profit organization dedicated to simplifying and facilitating the
communication and management of image rights. In the PLUS Coalition,
publishers, picture archives, photographers, illustrators, designers,
advertising agencies, museums, libraries, artist representatives,
educational institutions, manufacturers and their associations
collaborate toward that shared goal. The PLUS standards allow rights and
attribution information to travel within image files in a
machine-readable format that provides instant access and universal
understanding. "We are very pleased that these major publishers - the
largest image licensees in the industry - are aligned in their support
of the PLUS standards," said Maria Kessler, President of the Picture
Archive Association of America. Bonnie Beacher, Senior Director of
Contracts, Copyrights and Permissions at McGraw-Hill Education, said
"The PLUS standards benefit publishers and their suppliers by
simplifying and clarifying the process of licensing and managing images.
We are in the process of implementing PLUS standards, and we would find
it very useful for our image suppliers to adopt PLUS standards as well."
Jeff Sedlik, President & CEO of the PLUS Coalition, said "The PLUS
standards will allow publishers to leverage embedded license metadata to
increase automation and more efficiently manage images in their digital
asset management systems."
The PLUS Coalition includes participants in thirty countries, and
receives significant support from Leadership Circle members Adobe,
Adbase, Adobe, Pentagram, Jupiterimages, Digimarc, Belay Development,
Getty Images, IDEAlliance, ImageSpan, Photo District News, IPTC, NAPP,
PACA, StockPhotoFinder, Swan Turton, WongDoody and Capture. To learn
more about PLUS, visit www.useplus.org or contact [log in to unmask] ###
Media Contact: Lou Desiderio, Synergy Communications, 917-627-0912,
[log in to unmask] Company Contact: Jeff Sedlik, PLUS Coalition,
866-669-7587, [log in to unmask]
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