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Zack Arias on Unsplash and the 'race to the bottom'
B8:
Unsplash is an image sharing website where photographers share high quality/res work and it is 100% royalty free. It seems, for all intents and purposes, like the 'race to the bottom' that is plaguing the stock photo industry has gotten Zack unhinged. Zack nails it and very briefly mentions iStock:
http://youtu.be/6M_OZWtpokc
HalfFull:
--- Quote from: B8 on February 07, 2018, 02:14 ---Unsplash is an image sharing website where photographers share high quality/res work and it is 100% royalty free. It seems, for all intents and purposes, like the 'race to the bottom' that is plaguing the stock photo industry has gotten Zack unhinged. Zack nails it and very briefly mentions iStock:
http://youtu.be/6M_OZWtpokc
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There's already a thread on this but.... statements like "100% royalty free" when referring to free images on the Creative Commons licence do not help. It goes towards confusing inexperienced image buyers to think, "Royalty Free" means the images are free when they are most certainly not.
everest:
Agree the Royalty Free term is confusing to many. Would be great to get rid of it and change it for something more self explanatory.
--- Quote from: HalfFull on February 07, 2018, 03:39 ---
--- Quote from: B8 on February 07, 2018, 02:14 ---Unsplash is an image sharing website where photographers share high quality/res work and it is 100% royalty free. It seems, for all intents and purposes, like the 'race to the bottom' that is plaguing the stock photo industry has gotten Zack unhinged. Zack nails it and very briefly mentions iStock:
http://youtu.be/6M_OZWtpokc
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There's already a thread on this but.... statements like "100% royalty free" when referring to free images on the Creative Commons licence do not help. It goes towards confusing inexperienced image buyers to think, "Royalty Free" means the images are free when they are most certainly not.
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iFlop:
--- Quote from: everest on February 07, 2018, 05:03 ---Agree the Royalty Free term is confusing to many. Would be great to get rid of it and change it for something more self explanatory.
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DPreview isn't helping:
https://www.dpreview.com/videos/1694624230/zack-arias-on-unsplash-and-the-race-to-the-bottom
Noedelhap:
Even more important than the race to the bottom is the fact, as Zack mentions in his video, the total ignorance of (amateur) photographers about model releases and the possible legal problems arising from the commercial use of those not-model-released pictures.
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