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Picturenation was a British-based online
stock image
Stock photography is the supply of photographs that are often licensed for specific uses. The stock photo industry, which began to gain hold in the 1920s, has established models including traditional macrostock photography, midstock photography, ...
library providing
royalty-free
Royalty-free (RF) material subject to copyright or other intellectual property rights may be used without the need to pay royalties or license fees for each use, per each copy or volume sold or some time period of use or sales.
Computer standards ...
images to the
editorial
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,
commercial
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* (adjective for) commerce, a system of voluntary exchange of products and services
** (adjective for) trade, the trading of something of economic value such as goods, services, information or money
* a dose of advertising ...
and
education
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sectors.
History
Picturenation was set up in 2006 by Jane Green, a former
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England. Originally established in 1922 as the British Broadcasting Company, it evolved into its current sta ...
journalist, TV news director and web producer. The company was based at
Staffordshire University
The University of Staffordshire is a public research university in Staffordshire, England. It has its main campus in Stoke-on-Trent and four other campuses in Stafford, Lichfield, Shrewsbury, and London.
History
In 1901, industrialist Alfred ...
in
Stoke-on-Trent
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, UK, and the university was a
shareholder
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in the company. As of August 2009 the company stocked over 96,000 checked images from over 9,800 photographers.
Picturenation was a totally web-based operation, and the website closed permanently on 17 August 2013.