IMGembed has been around for a while now, giving creatives a way to allow their images to be shared while governing what content users pay to use those images. One of my personal favorite companies as it applies the "Fair Trade" ethic to image use online, IMGembed is looking to grow as it asks for $100,000 over the next 28 days through a Kickstarter campaign.
While the campaign says, "All contributions will be used to fund product development and marketing efforts," no one is sure that means specifically, but one can imagine the scalability issues and room for growth for such a product. And "product development" on an already-fantastic product gets me excited, even if I have no idea where that will take them.
Take a look at their Kickstarter video as well as an infographic they created to help users understand how IMGembed works. Of course, you can support the campaign by visiting it here, too.
Ahah! I think it will never be really usable! just an example here at Fstoppers: i guess the basis of the website is Wordpress (or a more social mod, like BuddyPress), like a looooot of other blogs, because it's easy to manage and creating a post with embeded media (photo, video, sound) is easy. Now lets say you want to be "ethic compliant" and use an embedding code (from IMGembed) for each image you use, you will need: or a wordpress plugin for IMGembed (this means you will be dependent of IMGembed for keeping the plugin up to date) of to switch your post editor to "source mode" and paste the piece of code in the middle of an unreadable stack of html markups... (this means your blogging platform is able to use iframes, witch is really not sure) So NO it's not as easy as "just take the embed code and put it in your blog". And how do you do for Facebook? (you just post a link? on which you can't tag your friend to ask them "look at this pict!")
I think this psycho about getting our images stolen is ridiculous. I personnally discover a lot of photographers because their images were published on "lets-say-not-ethic" websites. Most of the time, the source is written anyway, giving me the possiblity to follow them.
So I am asking the pro prhotographers: Do you think the $ prejudice is big enough to take the risk of not being shared?
(considering "screen printing" will always work for someone who really want to steal your image, no matter you are using IMGembed...)
Two things here:
1.) I think it's not meant to be there for EVERY single image you ever share. But it's great to have the option for blogs and other content curators online to have a place they can go to check if there's a way to RIGHTLY use images.
2.) And to that point, it's actually quite easy to paste code into an article. It's really not difficult (all of us writers do it from time to time), and in fact, that Kickstarter video in the post was pasted in there...and it's iframe.... So it really isn't that big of a deal. And it really is WAY easier than taking something and going through all the steps mentioned in the infographic above...