Creating an image bank online

Hi. I have been wanted to create an online image bank (like gettyimage.com, for example) for web developers. but i'm gonna do it a little differently.
i'm going to offer my website to photographers/artists who want to sell their work. then i will post it on the web and sell it for them. the photographer will get most of the profit, but i will also take a percentage. so, i need to know the logistics behind this. i need to know all about the copyright laws, etc etc etc

does anyone know anything about this??

thanks!

 

anyone?

 

Thats really advanced. If you are really serious about this I would learn either PHP or ASP and MySQL for databases. a good place to start is either: www.asp101.com www.4guysfromrolla.com or http://www.w3schools.com/asp/default.asp for asp. For php you can check out www.w3schools.com also.

 

Copywrite laws are complicated. You can sell "royalty-free" images quite easily (i.e. they don't need to be processed every time they are used) provided you do give a certain ammount to the artist for each picture, and of course they declare it to be royalty free.

I would learn a server side scripting language, for sure, and be prepared to spend lots of money on hosting.

You should make a business plan really, and try and get investors (write it up right and you should be able to get some marketing companies to give you some money)

 

how much profit (if any) do you think is involved in a project like this????

 

bump

(sorry... i just wanted some input on my last question. thanks)

 

I really couldn't say : thats what you're supposed to be working out for yourself!

You could run it successuflly, I'm sure, but perhaps not profitably.

 

If your just starting out since there are a lot of places like what your making that host images for free, I would make it free. And then I would offer maybe premium services, and you would have to pay for those. just a suggestion.