Kodak, eBay Plan Online Photo Pact

ROCHESTER, N.Y. (Reuters) - Eastman Kodak Co. (NYSE:EK - news), shooting for a bigger share of the online digital imaging market, said Friday it plans to provide Internet photo technology to Web auctioneer eBay Inc. Under the proposed three-year pact, San Jose, Calif.-based eBay would license Kodak technologies to allow people who trade online to add photographs to their auction listings without scanners or additional hardware and software.

To add a photograph, eBay members would take their film to a Kodak photo processor and have it scanned and put on the Internet. When eBay sellers create an auction listing, they would be asked if they wanted to look at their images online by entering a personal access code. The seller could view the roll of film and choose an image, which is then automatically attached to their eBay listing.