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Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 5 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.60
Q And now of course, what do you mean by what do they need?
A Well, I mean, So say, say you're a small digital advertising agency, digital marketing firm, or you're a small corporation and you're looking for a picture to illustrate, you know, we, we serve coffee when you come in the store or whatever. They could go into and say in, in our search bar and super stock search bar and search, you know, small business coffee, you know, and everything will come up. What's gotten better today is search on our end. So if you think about, Us being small, managing, say, thirty six million assets. How do you find what's right for you? Or you think of somebody big like Getty, who with 3,000,300 million assets, how do you find the exact perfect thing? So what is getting better and what AI has really helped with is search. So that way you could really pinpoint exactly what you're looking for and, and hopefully find an image or a video clip that Matches exactly what you're looking for.
AI assessment note: “say you're a small digital advertising agency... looking for a picture to illustrate”
Answered raw tape
D 5 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 4 4.30
Q So do you now have a stable of wealthy patrons that you're introducing to your, your creators?
A I wish that was the case, Sean. Um, no, I think for, in terms of the creators, it's every man for himself. There are a lot of people who create still photography and video who really love the medium and will continue to do it because they love the medium. What happened actually for a minute and I'll just rewind for a sec is there were people that started to create work just for the licensing and they weren't really super talented, but they were doing it cause it seemed like licensing was an easy way. You know, you could create subpar work, put it out there. People would license it. Hey, I'm gonna, I'm making my living doing this. And you know what the industry has done is definitely weeded that out. There's still a lot of players, you know, there's still players that are creating a lot of content now with AI and, and, and pushing it into licensing content. And some of it's great and some of it's garbage. And I think it's making it harder for the end user to sort out what they need.
AI assessment note: “I wish that was the case, Sean. Um, no”
Partly raw tape
D 3 · C 4 · P 4 · Cm 3 3.55
Q your subscription lets the algorithm know that what we're doing is fantastic and no commitment. It's free to do. And if you don't like what we're doing later on, you can always unsubscribe. And either way, we would love a like if you don't feel like subscribing at this time. So what are good terms for a licensing agreement? What, how do you convince your clients to take a deal?
A Well, I think, I think like, well, it's just, I could talk a lot in terms of the image licensing, because that's kind of my specialty. And it used to be that you would charge per use, that somebody said, I'd like to use this image, and it still happens this way. I'd like to use this image on greeting cards for the next two years, and nobody else could use it. And they pay for that, and you protect it. Then it became something came out probably around in 2010 ish royalty free licensing, which meaning if they license an image, they could use it wherever they want, however they want for as long as they want. So right then we gave it away. And, and, and part, part of that were the big players thinking it's so hard to protect rights these days. So if we do, if we do this royalty free, We sell it once, we collect the money, boom, we're done. And there's no paperwork to track.
AI assessment note: “it used to be that you would charge per use, that somebody said”
Answered raw tape
D 3 · C 4 · P 3 · Cm 3 3.30
Q What do you think is like an annual amount of money that these companies might be generating?
A I don't know. Honestly, I know back in the day it was even more because there was, when, when there were unauthorized uses, there were bigger penalties because everyone knew if they were stealing a photo that they were stealing a photo. Today, with the way socials share and everything, there are a lot of people that are innocent to the fact that, oh, what do you mean I couldn't use that? It was online. So I think the, the public is not really up on people's intellectual property. And I think it's, it would be great for some of the big tech players to really have something written about what intellectual property is and why it's valuable. And I, you know, we've read articles about it and they talk about, look, a writer can't write unless they're getting paid for what they're doing. And a photographer, you know, if, if they're just Taking photos on their own and trying to license them. They're making their living licensing them. So if you're not paying the creator a royalty, it makes it hard for them to make a living and to continue to create.
AI assessment note: “I don't know. Honestly, I know back in the day it was even more”
