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Welcome to The Idealist, Idée's newsletter! There's no better way to share news and ideas and to involve our community in our product and service design. We hope you will enjoy hearing the latest from the frontlines of visual search and image monitoring!


   KEEP ON TRUCKIN'

[photo: Cupcake With Single Lit Candle] With all the going–ons and all the hard work happening at Idée, we completely forgot to celebrate our first year of image monitoring for web and print. Our image monitoring turned "1". We are now tracking 20 million client images!

As the company who has brought visual search to the stock photography industry, we have been quietly watching over the collections of some of the world's biggest image license holders. Today we monitor 20 million images. Yes, that's a lot of zeros! Using our identification–based image tracking, we allow our customers to find out exactly where their images have been used in print and on the web.

As content has grown in online stock and editorial image collections, the need of copyright holders to monitor uses of their images has grown exponentially. An expanding need to streamline billing practices, coupled with a troubling rise in misuses and infringements, has made comprehensive and reliable image monitoring a greater necessity than ever before.

Find out how we can help you!

And yes, we will remember to eat cake. Party plans in progress!


   INDUSTRY

PACA ANNUAL MEETING

If you have missed this year's PACA Annual meeting, Andy Goetze from StockPhotoTalk has gathered a nice selection of photographs. See what you have missed at StockPhotoTalk.

CONGRATULATIONS NANCY WOLFF!

Join us in congratulating Nancy Wolff – one of the leading minds in intellectual property law – for the launch of her new book: The Professional Photographer's Legal Handbook

[photo: Book Cover] From the publisher:
Anyone who wants to make a living by licensing rights to pictures will benefit from this real–world guide to photography and the law. This accessible and entertaining volume takes readers through the nuances and subtleties of copyright, trademark, and the laws of privacy and publicity. With a look at cases, statutes, and news items from today's headlines, Wolff covers the most timely and pressing legal matters confronting photographers and their representatives.



   IMAGES IN NUMBERS

[photo: Cluster] Did you know that it takes just 0.7 seconds for Idée to compare 15 million of your images to a single printed image? In fact, by the time you finish reading this sentence, Idée will have performed over 100 million image comparisons. By the end of one month that total would be over 55 trillion! Fortunately, our computers' eyes never get tired.



Still feeling the pains of manual image tracking for billing purposes or copyright infringement monitoring? Find out how we can help you.

Learn about Image Monitoring for print and web or get in touch to schedule an online demonstration:

Idée Inc
info@ideeinc.com
+ 1 416 860 0330



SHOUT OUTS

Idée welcomes some of the world's greatest collections to its image monitoring service:


- Agence France–Presse
- Associated Press
- Masterfile
- Retna
- SplashNews
- Superstock


We love to make our clients money!


"[Today] our people spend less time turning magazine pages and more time turning Idée reports into money"

– Steve Pigeon, President of Masterfile Corporation.



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Italy – Florence:
CEPIC Congress
June 6 – 10


Buongiorno! Idée will be in Florence, Italy from June 6–9 for the annual CEPIC Congress, held at the Palazzo Degli Affari. Don't miss one of the year's biggest and most influential get–togethers for the entire industry!



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Canada – Toronto:
Mesh Conference
May 30 – 31


Mesh is Canada's premier web conference, held in Toronto on May 30th and 31st, 2007. Join us at the "Startup Stories" panel and hear Leila Boujnane, Idée's CEO, and colleagues talk about their start up experience. This panel is facilitated by the great Paul Kedrosky of Venture West fame.



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223 Queen St. E., Toronto, ON, M5A 1S2
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