Press Release :: ImageSpan and PicScout Team to Deliver Best-in-Class Image Licensing and Tracking Solutions, Creating Improved Revenues for LicenseStream Subscribers at Imaging Insider

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Press Release :: ImageSpan and PicScout Team to Deliver Best-in-Class Image Licensing and Tracking Solutions, Creating Improved Revenues for LicenseStream Subscribers at Imaging Insider:
"Together, ImageSpan and PicScout are addressing a huge and growing problem: online image theft. Lost revenues from unauthorized uses of images online are estimated at upwards of $65 million, according to a comprehensive study by the Stock Artists Alliance. By combining PicScout’s market-leading image tracking and recognition registry services with ImageSpan’s Web-based LicenseStream automated licensing and royalty settlement service, the partners can provide LicenseStream subscribers with a view into where and how their images are being used online. LicenseStream also provides subscribers with automated options, or remedies, to convert non-paying content consumers into paying customers. The three-year agreement calls for PicScout to be the exclusive image tracking service and image registry service for all content provided to it by ImageSpan and covers mutual customers in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.

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