StockMedia.net Launches Content Service
Platform
NEW YORK, NY - November 2, 2000 - Stock Media Corporation announced today at PhotoExpo the launch of StockMedia.net, a content service platform that facilitates the licensing of photographs for commercial business uses. StockMedia.net offers an online application service to photographers and the stock photo agencies that represent them that enables them to host, transact and deliver their creative works online.
StockMedia.net offers two plans at launch. One plan permits copyright holders to host their content in the platform, setting their own licensing and pricing parameters, for a flat monthly service fee that is based on the megabytes stored and quantity of transactions. The second plan positions StockMedia.net to represent the licensing of content for digital markets only, such as the Internet, Television, CD-ROM and kiosk, for a percentage of licensing fees. This plan returns all usage requests for print or hi-res back to the copyright holder.
A key feature of StockMedia.net is its ability to enable creators and their agents to search directly from their existing web sites, and display only their own content. In essence, this gives small agencies and individual creators the substantial power of a high-end ecommerce database in exchange for the non-exclusive right to license their content to digital markets.
CEO Randy Taylor comments, "This is an extremely powerful platform that should serve the industry well. Our task now is to build out the content contained in our network of web sites to maximize the value that we add to both suppliers and clients."
Stock Media Corporation, based in New York City, empowers creators and their agents by providing technology and Internet marketing to license their content, such as photos, music and video. Stock Media™ provides 24/7 ecommerce licensing to businesses, with an emphasis on digital markets, via its StockMedia.net network of stock content sites and via its proprietary Content Service Platform™.
