The Sun-Times Preserves Its Photo Archive by Selling It | Chicago Reader

Sun-Times publisher John Barron told me that last December his paper sold its archive of more than a million photos and negatives to Rogers for a “sizable cash payment.” Neither he nor Rogers will be precise, but Rogers said it ran to seven figures. The Sun-Times retains “all the intellectual property, all the copyrights,” Barron said. What’s more, Rogers is obliged to re-create the “entire library in digital searchable form,” and make it accessible to the Sun-Times.