ImageSpan Signs First International
Reseller Agreement with DP SARL, Empowering Photographers in France to Publish
Directly to Customers Globally, Track and Monetize New and Existing ImagesFirst
International Reseller DP SARL to Offer ImageSpan's LicenseStream Creator to Photographers
and Companies via Francephotographie.com, Making it Easy to Maximize the Value
of New and Existing ImagesSAUSALITO, CA and AIX EN PROVENCE, FRANCE
- May 12, 2009 - ImageSpan Inc., the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading
licensing and royalty payment automation platform for all media, has signed its
first international reseller agreement with DP SARL, a French company that offers
a network of services for professional photographers and companies working in
the photographic field. DP SARL, which helps imaging professionals increase
their Internet visibility, generate quality contacts and increase sales for their
offerings, will resell LicenseStream Creator to photographers and other imaging
professionals using their services via its francephotographie.com site, making
it easy for these customers to promote, protect, track, create new revenue streams
and settle royalties for new and existing photos. Francephotographie.com's LicenseStream
licensing store will feature member-generated content. DP SARL will receive a
share of fees, driven by LicenseStream Creator registrations and transactions. "With
DP SARL, ImageSpan's LicenseStream Creator is empowering photographers in France
to publish their content directly to the Web and global search engines, enabling
anyone in the world to find their search-optimized content and pay for it with
a mouse click," said Iain Scholnick, chief executive officer, ImageSpan.
"This innovation essentially makes the content itself the storefront. It
dramatically speeds the pace of transactions and drives incremental revenues.
By offering LicenseStream Creator to its network of photographers, DP SARL is
helping its photographers and other imaging professionals increase revenues with
incremental publishing on the Web, empowering them with a world-class infrastructure
requiring little investment. Content owners of all sizes-from individual creators
to major media and entertainment companies - today want to make their entire catalog
of media - not just the hits - available online to maximize their assets' value."
Francephotographie.com will provide their customers with a special promotion
code, which they can use when registering for the LicenseStream Creator service.
Francephotographie.com also has translated the LicenseStream Creator User Guide
and Getting Started Guides into French, and is making them available to all of
its customers. "In this challenging economy, LicenseStream Creator
gives photographers and imaging companies the automated licensing and royalty
settlement services they need to generate revenues quickly and efficiently from
both their newly-created and existing images," said Arnaud Blanchard, founder
and owner, DP SARL. "With LicenseStream Creator, our customers can dramatically
speed time-to-market for their work, protect it, accelerate payment for it and
quickly distribute royalties. LicenseStream Creator's ability to deliver breakthrough
technology that matters is why we are excited to offer its market-leading services
to our customers." About ImageSpan
ImageSpan
is the creator of LicenseStream, the market-leading licensing and royalty payment
automation platform for all media types and businesses, from individual creators
to enterprises. LicenseStream makes content intelligent, so it moves freely across
the Web with defined ownership, rights and restrictions, enabling pricing based
on use. By making content intelligent, LicenseStream creates new efficiencies
and frees resources to develop new distribution and marketing channels to drive
incremental revenues. Enterprise partners using the ImageSpan platform include
Omnicom, Visible World and online advertising agencies. ImageSpan offers a number
of delivery options including deployment through Adobe software. Founded in 2003
and based in Sausalito, California, ImageSpan is the exclusive provider of license
registry services to the PLUS Coalition, the international, multi-industry standards
body for image licensing. For more information, please go to www.imagespan.com
or call (888) 921-1221. About DP SARL
Founded in 2007,
DP SARL ( www.dp1.fr ) is a French company that
offers services for professional photographers and companies working in the photographic
field. DP SARL manages Francephotographie.com and dpsources.com. The company is
owned by Arnaud Blanchard (formerly manager of a NeXTVar company and trainer as
an Adobe Certified Expert).
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