PhotoLicence

PhotoLicence.com is a universal exchange platform for the online purchase and sale of royalty free photographs. PhotoLicence is dedicated to specialist or amateur photographers and acts as a go-between with professionals who seek photo products (communication agency, advertising agency, publishing house, etc).

In 2005, PhotoLicence was nominated as the Top 5 most beautiful French-speaking web site by Yahoo! France [http://fr.promotions.yahoo.com/dixans/votes.html] together with BMW, Chanel, Ushuaia et CssZenGarden's sites.

PhotoLicence's website belongs to the company Octeo, located in Grenoble, France.

History and Overview

PhotoLicence.com has been established as a stock photography provider since 2000 and was first known as PhotosGratis and held a collection of free stock images. Due to demand for public and/or commercial use of the collection's photographs, PhotoLicence turned its business-model towards commercialization of royalty free photographs.

Today, PhotoLicence is an online photo agency sharing a new business model, the micropayment model, which was pioneered by iStockphoto, Dreamstime and others, aimed at the democratization of royalty free stock images.

Contributors

PhotoLicence.com is intended for both professional and amateur photographers. Contributor's photographs are scrutinized by administrators who assess their relevance in accordance with PhotoLicence's requirements of quality, resolution, respect of copyright and trademark laws, theme's and relevance.

Purchasing and use

Once approved and according to photographer's preferences, pictures are available for sale with a public/commercial usage license, or a private use only license.

Photographs can be purchased either per unit or through thematic/personalized CD-ROMs. They are immediately usable and downloadable, and the acquired rights cover a wide span.

PhotoLicence’s Team

Albiges Benoit, co-founder, General Manager

Desportes Olivier, co-founder, Technical Director

Parquet Laurent, co-founder, Chief Internet Evangelist

Ikeda Megumi

Masson Julien

Clement Martyn

Competitors

iStockPhoto

Dreamstime

ShutterStock

Fotolia

External links

* [http://www.PhotoLicence.com/ PhotoLicence.com]