Corbis executives said that the stock licensing industry will decline over the next four years, and the company will cut the royalty rate it pays most rights-managed contributors.
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I can't understand why they haven't done more with snapvillage.  If microstock is taking away some of the business from Corbis, it would make sense to have a decent miscrostock site to compete with istock.  So far they have failed to fix the problems that are holding back SV.

yep,  I've made more at albumo than sv this month (not that I contribute to either anymore), somehow I dont see sv ever really making it (just my opionion

I want to see a strong macro market but it is obvious that some buyers are moving to microstock and Corbis should have a good site to stop them going to their competitors.  A few small changes and SV could be a good site but nothing has been done for months.  At the moment it looks like they want the site to fail.  They need to stop downsizing our images, introduce FTP and increase the ratio of pay per download sales.  I don't understand why they can't do that.

The keyword issue is strange as I use irfanview and have had no problems.

Corbis executives said that ... the company will cut the royalty rate it pays most rights-managed contributors.

And what are the odds that those same executives will reduce their salaries as well???

They cut down RM-commissions to 40%. Considering the more administration work you have with RM compard to RF i think its fair. So no complaints here but i wish they would stay more competetive IMHO they should have bought Jupiter and give StockXpert a real boost. I don't like Getty, Corbis is much more contributor-friendly and yes its owned by Bill Gates and i think this is a good thing he has all reason to care about copyright and intellectual property!