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London based Science Photo Library, has agreed a licensing agreement with digital educational content collection Global Grid for Learning (GGfL). GGfL, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cambridge University Press, aims to connect teachers and students at all stages in education to single sources of digital multimedia content from multiple providers.…

Hollywood base celebrity photo agency X17 have updated their website – they say, “With an average of more than 350,000 viewers/day, X17online is recognized as a leader in celebrity news and the ultimate source for the latest, most exclusive photos and videos from world of entertainment”.…

cnet News reports: Adding another chapter to a long, drawn-out legal saga, a New York federal district court has rejected the controversial settlement in a class-action suit brought against Google Books by the Authors Guild, a publishing industry trade group. full report here: news.cnet.com…

Celebrity stills and video photo agency Splash has partnered with Flingo. The partnership will bring Splash’s celebrity and entertainment video news service, Splash News TV, to television audiences worldwide through Flingo’s Connected TV publishing suite. Packaged video content from Splash News will be updated each daily initially to over 3…

Conferences April 9 – 14, 2011slashExhibits April 11 – 14 Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada USA The AP booth at this years NAB Show will be feature their ENPS Mobile Suite. Used in almost 800 newsrooms in 60 countries, ENPS provides powerful, easy-to-use features for journalists working in…

Reuters new agency reports Getty Images staff photographer Joe Raedle has gone missing along with two correspondents from AFP. Full report: Reuters…

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Friday 2.30pm: FotoFringe London has just had it’s first major Twitter mention from the good people at Press Gazette – thanks Dom.…

The archive team at Getty Images have put together a great video with staff at the famous photo agency Gamma Rapho. The video contains a tour of the Gamma offices and a full overview of the history and content in France’s leading historical archive. Getty Images’ new Gamma – Keystone…

The Art Archive and The Kobal Collection is looking for an International Account Executive. Full details of this job are now on the Industry Ads page…

“My usual camera bag is pretty huge, and really heavy. So for the past few weeks I’ve swapped it for a Nokia N8. Is it possible to shoot aerial views all over the UK on a cameraphone?” Aerial stock and commission photographer Jason Hawkes has sent us a link to…

Guess who? He gained a job at News of the World after a chance meeting with Rupert Murdoch. Two years later, he left to take a position with the Daily Mail, for whom he provided coverage of the Bosnian War. He often appears on radio and television programmes to speak…

FotoFringe London exhibitor Science and Society picture library are talking about the event on their news pages now: www.scienceandsociety.co.uk/news…

American garden photographer Stacy Bass is now being represented by Garden World Images. View the images…

AP reports: The Associated Press and Obey Clothing settle copyright infringement suit. The Associated Press and Obey Clothing, an apparel company and exclusive licensee of Shepard Fairey, have agreed to settle their high-profile copyright infringement lawsuit over Obey Clothing’s sale and distribution of apparel and other merchandise bearing the image…

Due to demand, stock photo event FotoFringe London has announced that a second major Hall at Kings Place has been booked to meet demand. The 21 picture libraries participating in fotofringe London at the stunning new Kings Space cultural centre are being joined by a further 20 agencies including AKG-Images,…

Getty Images will soon be offering the ‘interiors’ collection from UK photo library Gap Photos. Gap already provide botanical images to Getty, which will be re-branded as GAP Gardens.…

MEDIA EVENT AND FUNDRAISER Thursday 24 March 2011 at 7.30pm an exclusive screening of the stunning 60 minute ITV documentary Man to Manta, complete with an introduction from the show’s presenter, Martin Clunes (Doc Martin, Reggie Perrin, Men Behaving Badly), at London’s prestigious May Fair Hotel. The event organisers are…