Quote from: RacePhoto on March 20, 2009, 07:03

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Dinosaur? What the comet or an asteroid? The sky IS falling? 

i'll assume that everyone here is selling photos on microstock for 25 cents to a dollar a download, then turning around and complaining because Alamy is going to sell their photos to more people at a higher rate?

If you don't like the new program, please opt out right now, before it's finalized or fully explained, everyone else will appreciate the reduction in competition and increase in sales. 

ditto ditto ditto 

Did I leave out the rim shot after the first line? 

I'm just asking people to look at both sides, not just the negative.

ps I didn't get the email and I have over 1100 photos on Alamy. Why am I always the last one to find out. 

I got both emails.  Maybe you have disabled them in your settings at Alamy (if there is such setting...)

Today there was a new post about RM imge sin the license scheme:

http://www.alamy.com/Blog/contributor/archive/2009/03/20/4611.aspx

In response to some of the comments received, we wanted to make our position clear on Rights Managed (L or RP) images. A newspaper downloading a Rights Managed image will only be able to use the image once.

We are not proposing that we turn RM images into RF images. This will be clear in the terms agreed with our newspaper customers. As we are only talking about a very small number of customers this will be a face to face negotiation and the terms of the agreement will be understood.

If a customer wishes to use an RM image in June that they downloaded and first used in May they will simply have to download the image again or alternatively Alamy will add a download to their June total.

A bit confusing to manage, since the newspaper will be downloading both RF and RM images as subs - who will control if the image is used more than once?

Payment conditions remain a mystery also, so my tendency is to opt out.