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I just got a message that Shutterstock has taken a few of my images out of their collection.  

This is what the email says.



It is a little cryptic (perhaps due to the unfortunate formatting) - with no real way of know what the images were other than their description.  When I look at the image numbers on Shutterstock, the image is blank.

It looks however like they were deleted due to legal concerns.  Fair enough - perhaps it has something to do with their recent guaranteeing of images.

Had several too, all cars, motorcycles (even illustrations) ... maybe stricter policies on those items.

Patrick H.

i had one motorcycle deleted as well.

Are the deleted files "editorial"?  I have a few images featuring cars from a few years back but they're all marked editorial.  So far they haven't been deleted.

Isn't this a good thing?  Even if a few great sellers go we should be better protected from a lawsuit.

they are going to remove every image of a car in their database it seems.  They are really going to town!

These two images were even removed for legal reasons.

I had two deleted with cars with, full sideview but no logos. They are amongst good sellers at other sites, so I guess it's a matter of time before iStock kicks them out too.
That's a consequence of the latest cry in microstock about the "guarantee". I wonder when Dreamstime will offer the "guarantee".

1970's AMC Javelin?

I can't find it and I'm not sure if it was IS or SS or somewhere else, but they do say, if the subject of the photo is the car, or it's more than 1/3rd of the image, it will get rejected. I think it was one of those newsletters last year from SS. Not important, but we have been advised of this in the past. When they remove my photo that includes a parking lot for cars/copyright, then I'll be ready to scream unfair.  

Can't understand leaf's photos being pulled at all.

Funny thing I shot about 14,000 car photos this year and not one ever got uploaded to Micro.

I had 5 images yanked... they were models on motorcycles. Bummer too.. They were great sellers.

Is it possible that the images that have been removed had keywords that were considered trademarks or copyrights?

For example, if you search on the keyword "BMW", there are 5 results.  If you search on "Volvo", there are 77 results.  Etc.

Not only cars it seems. I had a few of mine removed in october from a series of Manhattan cityscapes :


And yes, all potential trademarks, ad signs or whatever had been edited out from the picture. Maybe it's because I tell in the caption that it has been shot from the top of the Rockefeller Center ? Is the RFC considered a trademark or copyrighted ?

[EDIT] And for each removed image, I had the same cryptic message : "deleted because: Quality Control: Deleted per Legal -- Do Not Resubmit"

It might be because of the location from where you took the shot i.e. from private property.

yeah, i'm guessing it's just a matter of time for those.  I had a firetruck isolation removed today.  This must really suck for them too.  I am sure there are lots of sales shutterstock is going to loose because of this.