160 Mixing It with Rights-Managed Stock
has enjoyed over the past few years. Most of Alamy’s sales are for
editorial use, illustrating news articles, travel books, and the like, not
for advertising.
If you are selling images through Alamy rights managed, then you
have greater freedom to include copyright works and logos incidentally
in your photographs. You may also include recognizable faces.
However, you will then be restricted to selling such work for editorial
use only.
Alamy has approximately 10 million images for sale at present,
which makes it several times larger than the largest microstock, Fotolia,
which has about 2.2 million images. Recently, Alamy has borrowed
some of the microstocks’ clothes by imposing a zero-tolerance image-
inspection regimen, image upload (but still not FTP), and a user forum.
That should make Alamy a very comfortable choice for microstock
photographers looking to break into the world of the traditional
libraries.FIGURE 9.1 “Egyptian Farmers.” Images like this are good potential travel editorial work for sites like Alamy. © Quentin Bargate