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Cracking news here from image licensing giant Getty Images who are going it alone for the photo industry confirming this week that it has been granted “interested party” status in the European Commission’s investigation into anticompetitive behaviour by Google. Getty Images provides specialised image search and shopping services to end…

The Sibelius Museum is the only museum in Finland totally devoted to music. The museum building, designed by Woldemar Baeckman, is one of the most original Finnish creations of the 1960s. A selection from the museum’s 1.950 musical instruments (both traditional and art music) from all around the globe is…

Building upon the success compiled throughout the past two decades, DMLA (formerly PACA), is returning to New York for its 20th Annual Conference from October 25-27, 2015. Attend informative sessions, meet with colleagues, connect with content providers, see clients and mix in a little time to have some fun too.…

Great promo here from photo agency plain pictures via an email campaign this week – click it …and take a look at how they introduce the agency staff – hover over a portrait…

This is just a reminder to all young photographers who are either attending a full-time photographic course or are under 24. Apart from a cash prize this award and programme will be an important part and possibly the start your editorial photo career so spend some time editing and submitting…

Spotted on an agency Tweet this week: Our ‘Mystery’ Category will add a little intrigue to your Wednesday: Here’s the tweet:…

Lebrecht photographer Suzie Maeder will be showing photographs from her series Seeing Music, Egyptian Temple ceilings, Sand Dunes in Siwa and Berlin Diary Notes during the Artists at Home this weekend. More details and photos on the Lebrecht blog…

Getty Images is making it’s premium 360 degree imagery available for the Oculus virtual reality platform. The Oculus 360 Photos app on the Oculus Store, 360° View by Getty Images features exclusive, high-quality 360 degree imagery that gives users a chance to revisit and dive into their favorite moments and…

Last December we reported Adobe had purchased Royalty Free photo library Fotolia for $800M cash – on the back of that they have now launched their own stock photo library Adobe Stock. The collection launches with 40 million curated photos, illustrations and graphics and will also be available directly to…

Creative Commons the -‘nonprofit organization that enables the sharing and use of creativity and knowledge through free legal tools – has launched The List They say: “It’s a mobile photography app that invites users to create a list of images they want, or submit photos to help a person or…

News giant Reuters is to release a portion of it’s multimedia news content for free to digital publishers through its publisher platform Reuters Media Express. They say: ‘As the media industry navigates the unprecedented shift to digital publishing and online news consumption, Reuters is committed to innovating and challenging conventional…

After working together successfully since 2011 two specialist photo agencies The Garden Collection in the UK and Florapress in Germany have decided to ‘work together as one company’ There’s a new website for the partnership and customers will have to re-register to use the new features. They say: “We are…

Ross MacRae the busy boss at email marketing expert Bikinilists dropped PAN this Gif selfie promo during the week, always one to reward good marketing efforts we ran it. The GIF was shot at the Come Alive Images photo booth during the CEPIC Congress last week – nice promo Ross…

Topfoto were first on the through the PAN inbox with a prepared image selection on the death of actor Christopher Lee (June 11) above. View their offer to picture desks…