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Google Images, Getty and the Stock Photography Business

Getty Images is making a play now by entering the low end in force (they have the middle and middle-high end under control).Getty’s objective is less about controlling the images as it is about controlling the places that sell them. And while they may achieve a short-term monopoly on certain distribution outlets, which may result in higher prices for some small specialty markets, that short honeymoon period for Getty will end once photo-sharing sites become new outlets for photographers where the open market can decide their rates.

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Tanz Company Gervasi – Areal 6-Trek – Roses in MuseumsQuartier

One of the more wonderful dance performances I saw this year was in the open air in MuseumsQuartier on 4 May. After what has been a truly terrible season at TanzQuartierWien with close to nothing except conceptual choreography or over the hill performers, I was close to giving up on the season. It appeared the dance highlight of the year in 2005-2006 in Vienna was destined to be a restaging of John Cranko’s Eugene Onegin. Happily the Tanz Company Gervasi pulled a rabbit out of the hat in May, using the entire inner courtyard of MuseumsQuartier in a stunning use…

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