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Title: How does the big 4 deal with property rights when it comes to monuments?
Post by: azyr on May 07, 2015, 03:09
Hello everyone,

I'm quite a newbie in producing stock, but recently I've started creating new renders and taking photos to submit.

I've done a gold 3D render for the statue of liberty and it turned out quite nice, so I'm thinking of doing a set ;


Now creating these in 3D for huge renders (generally output 6k x 4k = 24mp) requires quite a bit of work, and rendering can sometimes take 1-2 days (especially with gold materials). Here's the liberty one ;

(https://tn.ftcdn.net/jpg/00/82/83/82/500_F_82838293_aawq1kvnoEiVklZrijpUhzJ8aeCyqtQG.jpg)

This has yet to be approved by iStock and Fotolia so I'm not even sure what they will say about property rights. Because this is so time consuming I'd like to be pretty sure that it won't be in vain before I start the others.

With that in mind, does anyone know if there will be issues of copyright or property rights etc. for this?

I seem to remember back in 2004 iStock would reject night shots of the Eiffel tower because those were protected or something.

Any help would be appreciated,
Thanks :)
Title: Re: How does the big 4 deal with property rights when it comes to monuments?
Post by: ShadySue on May 07, 2015, 03:28
I'm pretty sure the four you mention will be fine.  All are acceptable aa photos with no releases. As you say, don't copy the tower's lighting.
Title: Re: How does the big 4 deal with property rights when it comes to monuments?
Post by: azyr on May 07, 2015, 03:31
Great, I'm going to render them out like the Statue of Liberty, a set of golden statues.

Then maybe another set with them with a stone texture.

Not looking to recreate the actual monuments in place, a photo makes much more sense in that scenario imo.

Thanks for the input.