Corbis Loses Images!

A federal court judge in the US has concluded that Corbis tracking and storage practices have had serious deficiencies that have led to the loss of images.
The judge issued the conclusion when ruling in favour of a former Corbis photographer who sued the agency for the loss of 12,640 transparencies, or more than a quarter of his work with them. During the case the agency's former Managing Editor testified that Corbis's system for tracking images was completely inadequate, and a Corbis photo editor testified as to the lack of centralized and consistent record-keeping procedures for images. The case related to a loss discovered in 2001.
Two years ago a similar claim against Corbis succeeded when a photojournalist was awarded nearly $500,000 against the agency for the loss of 40,000 of his images.