Just as many of the world’s databases remain either undigitised (estimated at 90+%) or digitised but lack metadata, the content remains almost impossible to find. Even if they can find them, they cannot cost-effectively discern who has the commercialisation rights.
This creates 3 opportunities to support clients who have amazing image and film archives but who cannot monetise them in their current state.
In one instance, we have the opportunity to monetise the assets jointly and have formed a joint venture with one of our clients to bring over 1 million images of musicians/artists out of storage. We use our AI metadata platform to enrich each image and ensure all rightsholders receive their contractual rights.
We formed Flagship RIghts to manage archives of images from famous collections. We can acquire these archives and protect them while breathing new life into collections that have been in storage for decades.
We have also created a new Mag Archive group to support our growing inventory of historical magazines and augmented by our joint venture with the world’s largest magazine collection (Guinness Book of Records).
We have also formed Flagship RIghts to manage archives of images from famous collections. We can acquire these archives and protect them while breathing new life into collections that have been in storage for decades.
Iconic images from Lewis Morely and Lillian Bassman are just some examples within the archive. We have even commercialised rare and previously unseen images of Elton John. Early images of Winston Chrucill also grace the archive and we look to add many more, particularly among artists and celebrities that embody the 1950s, 60s and 70s here in Britain.
Quality and unique images of artists and celebrities continue to achieve significant value as collectors the world over look for stylised and rare glimpses of the past. Galleries, museums, corporate estates and private collectors seek the unseen and hard-to-obtain images, while advertisers receive fresh impact from well-known subjects