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Shutterstock.com / Re: How many downloads on average do you get month on SS
« on: June 15, 2017, 12:09 »...Are we allowed to say here?ill add mine if we are.
You're not supposed to disclose that information as of a change a few years back in the contract we agree to as contributors:
https://submit.shutterstock.com/legal/terms?language=en
From Section 15:
"By submitting any Content to Shutterstock, you acknowledge that you will acquire certain confidential and proprietary information, including but not limited to royalty rates, royalty payments and earnings data (collectively, "Confidential Information"). You agree to keep Confidential Information confidential and to not disclose Confidential Information to any third party other than representatives, agents, attorneys, accountants, auditors and advisors with a bona fide need to know, who shall first agree to keep the terms confidential."
I think that download numbers would be considered part of that list (although I'm not aware of any action they've taken for breaches of these terms). Especially as the information is largely meaningless without the context of a particular portfolio, I don't know why you'd take the risk.
Just what if... more than half of the contributors shate all those confidential information? Would SS terminate everyone's account? They earn more than we do from our creations. Would they be thinking -as we Turks say- "I'd rather sell lemons"?
