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DepositPhotos / Re: no payment
« on: February 06, 2024, 10:22 »
probably because they have an upcoming tax payment on their revenue, or other large bill they can't pay. they might be intentionally delaying paying photographers and other providers.

next employees won't get paid.

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DepositPhotos / Re: no payment
« on: February 06, 2024, 10:19 »
they are giving me a hard time also

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i got the notice today as well.

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My sales for videos dropped.

I discovered that Shutterstock erased my sales data for my videos, so they no longer appear in search results.

When I do a search for best selling videos, and for newly submitted videos, I get the same results.

All of my videos disappeared from search results.

Sales dropped to 0.

I contacted SS support and they denied it, even though it is clearly evident.

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check your search in your portfolio by best selling and by recent sales. if they are the same, your sales and view data were reset. when this happens, your images are removed from top placement in search results.

you need to have them fix it in the search database.

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Pond5 / Re: Pond5 has joined Shutterstock
« on: May 22, 2022, 18:17 »
if they shutter pond5, they will start making restrictions on buying and selling to get people to move to shutterstock

so if you see pond5 start to have new restrictions added to make your life more difficult, you will know why

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iStockPhoto.com / half a penny per image royalty
« on: May 21, 2022, 08:01 »
March 2021
128.24 USD
23753 photos sold
0.01 average

= .0059 per image sold

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General Stock Discussion / Stock Agencies vs YouTube on copyrights
« on: September 26, 2021, 03:27 »
funny, Youtube does not have ANY of the crazy copyright restrictions that stock companies have.

YouTube allows you to post videos with tattoos, videos of buildings like the Empire State Building, Hollywood sign, sports venues where you have to buy a ticket, people who are 'identifiable' by their clothes, videos that contain other artwork and photos.

I guess YouTube hasn't learned yet? (this is sarcasm)

The stock companies have been misinterpreting copyright laws for a long time. Hopefully some day they will start reading the copyright laws properly instead of what they have been doing.

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General Stock Discussion / tattoos are not copyright the author
« on: September 08, 2021, 17:03 »
just had a tattoo rejection for a tiny infinity symbol.

tattoos are 'work for hire'

you go in, the buyer picks a similar design or says what he wants, and pays for it. it is work for hire. the buyer owns the copyright. there is no exception to this.

if the author buys some human skin, draws a tattoo, sells you the skin, and you graft it on your arm, then the artist owns the copyright.

copyrights are not owned by the author upon creation. if the artwork is a work for hire, it is transferred to the buyer upon creation. this is clearly written in copyright law.


when you watch a TV show, the camera operator does not own the copyright to the video, the audio guy does not own the audio, the gfx dept does not own the overlays. the person who pays for everything usually is the owner of everything. for example, Jimmy Fallon likely does not own the copyright to himself performing on SNL, or giving a monologue on his late night show. NBC owns the copyright to the video and audio.

even if the writers own the copyright to what they wrote, it is limited to the written word only and does not extend to the video performance.


I own copyrights for my music. I hired people to record the music. I had to fill out the forms, read all the laws, and declare who the copyright owner was. the copyright is transferred to me upon creation.


all tattoos are works for hire. 100% owned by person receiving it.

so you will say "but the tattoo artist owns the original design". you are correct.

but he does not own the copyright of the tattoo on your butt.

copyright only protects him from having other tattoo artists copy how work. it does not allow him to dictate how you can display it in a photo or television show. that is transformative and fair use.

in almost always every copyright case, copyright protection ALLOWS others to use the work. that is the purpose of copyright law. you cannot do a simple exact copy and resell it to compete with the original author, but you can use another author's copyrighted work if you are using it in a new way.

wake up stock sites! go take the time to read the 1 paragraph about how work for hire works in terms of copyrights and stop incorrect rejections.

if you disagree with me you are wrong and you should go learn about copyrights.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 10:35 »
I live in a country that bought into this woke crap.

Here, if you go to anyone and ask their favorite color, they will refuse to answer. I am not exaggerating, I have tested this. They will not disclose their favorite foods, hobbies, nothing, because they have been drilled into thinking everything is wrong.

They have been scared shitless because of speech regulation.

They only will say what they think is okay to say by society's standards, and they are incapable of talking about themselves as individuals.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 09:08 »
shutterstock demands we follow their new rules, but they do not follow their own rules.

their auto complete for searches, and keywords, are filled with prohibited terms such as 'illegal immigrant', 'homeless', 'poor people', 'gay men', 'hispanic isolated', etc.

this makes me feel dehumanized when I have to obey rules that you yourself do not follow

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 08:59 »
question for Shutterstock.

are these new guidelines just for sellers, or do they apply to buyers to?

its your company and you can whatever you want, so enforce these guidelines on your buyers. i do not want my photo of a person of hispanic heritage to be described as a 'hispanic person' on one of your buyer's blogs.

please post a copy of your new guidelines for your buyers so we can verify that you are not  dehumanizing sellers.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 08:36 »
can I say:

"photo of a vegan eating beef" or does it deveganize people who have vegan beliefs?

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 08:35 »
can I say I have a 'black lab' or does it decanine dogs?

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 08:29 »
you need to put this in your guidelines.

people cannot say this because it is offensive:

"a hispanic vegan texan waving the texas flag while eating kale and speaking spanish"

it dehumanizes people.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 08:27 »
"vegan" is offensive and must be removed because it dehumanizes people.

for example:

"a vegan eating kale"

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 08:22 »
please confirm:

can we say something like:

"cheesehead at packers game" or is that also offensive?

it was originally an offensive term to refer to people playing against Wisconsin, so based on its history it is offensive.

just like to point out that searching for 'cheesehead' on shutterstock pulls up a lot of problematic images:

https://www.shutterstock.com/search/cheesehead

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 08:11 »
words that demean a person should be banned. here are some examples:

"sad girl crying"
"woman suffering from depression"
"person with gunshot wound"

instead we should write them as:

"girl who is not happy crying"
"woman experiencing non happiness"
"person with part of body that is in the process of healing"

"homeless" should be "person without a home"
"landlord" should be "evil straight white man who overcharges POCs"

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 08:06 »
"fat" is offensive

you should say:

"person who is not thin"


old is hurtful, so say "person who is no longer young"


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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 08:04 »
also offensive:

"Germans celebrating Oktoberfest"

"Muslims wearing burqas"

"Christians praying to the cross".

"Alaskans tending to their dog sledding team"

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 08:02 »
you can not say:

"Bedouins walking in the desert"

or "Brazilians cheering on their soccer team"

or "Mongolians living in the mountain plains"

all offensive



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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 07:53 »
other offensive words:

blonde

brunette

redhead

they are adjectives being used as nouns. not permitted anymore.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 07:49 »
words and phrases now offensive:

"new yorker" such as "new yorker hailing a cab".

"texan", such as "texan driving his truck while waving the Texas flag".

"boater", such as "boater out on the lake with his motorboat"

"surfer", such as "surfer having fun on big waves". now banned

"police", such as "police arrested a non-documented person".

you cannot say 'the police' just like you cannot say 'the hispanics'. very problematic

extremely offensive and dehumanizing

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 07:28 »
please stop using any language referring to citizenship, citizen, etc.

please only refer to citizens as 'documented persons'.

for example, "photo of group of people who are now documented"

or "my father upon achieving documented status"

or "Barack Obama, a documented person, giving a speech"

or, "photo of birthing person giving birth to a documented baby"

or, "drawing of George Washington fighting for documented status independent of England"

or, "video of 20 undocumented persons running across border while be chased by 3 documented law enforcement persons"

or, "video of 20 undocumented persons running across border while be chased by 3 persons who are in the country legally"

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Commitment to Diversity and Inclusion
« on: September 01, 2021, 07:24 »
What is an implied subject example?

Implied subjects occur when a sentence does not state the doer of the action, but it is clear to whom the sentence is referring.

"A Hispanic walks into a bar"

the implied subject is "Hispanic person". it is not dehumanizing.


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