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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: leszek on March 29, 2010, 23:41

Title: Has anyone heard about this "microstock website" ?
Post by: leszek on March 29, 2010, 23:41
One of my friends sent me the link - with some of my pics being sold on this website.
Maybe this is a legit site (subsidiary of one of the "biggies") - but I never heard about them.
Since they claim to have over 6 million pics - chances are (if they are a rip-off artists, that is, which is yet to be confirmed/denied)that some of you may have "contributed" your pics there.

Have a look and - what do you think ?
http://www.samphotostock.cz/ (http://www.samphotostock.cz/)
Title: Re: Has anyone heard about this "microstock website" ?
Post by: melastmohican on March 30, 2010, 00:11
Tried search and got error:
Warning: fopen(http://api.123rf.com/rest/?method=123rf.images.search&apikey=a526ca3002dbbf532e2b1b67ed2d3af4&keyword=california+coast&keyword_match=all&page=1&perpage=40 (http://api.123rf.com/rest/?method=123rf.images.search&apikey=a526ca3002dbbf532e2b1b67ed2d3af4&keyword=california+coast&keyword_match=all&page=1&perpage=40)): failed to open stream: Connection refused in /var/www/samphotostock.cz/www/inc/apiFunctions.php  on line 53

From my end 123RF seems to be down :-)
Title: Re: Has anyone heard about this "microstock website" ?
Post by: leszek on March 30, 2010, 00:18
Yes - this is what I am getting now too...
123RF is undergoing site maintenance at this moment - maybe they are part of 123RF ? Wait and see.
Title: Re: Has anyone heard about this "microstock website" ?
Post by: Magnum on March 30, 2010, 01:27
I canīt find on 123Rf site were I checked the "partner-site" box?

Well, I found this.   http://www.123rf.com/partners/ (http://www.123rf.com/partners/) 
 Thatīs fantastic. Submit to one site and reach hundreds without control ???

Wereīs that * checkbox!!!
Title: Re: Has anyone heard about this "microstock website" ?
Post by: Clivia on March 30, 2010, 01:54
Hey that's my picture!
The smilie faces used by 123rf on the above link is one of mine.
Title: Re: Has anyone heard about this "microstock website" ?
Post by: PowerDroid on March 30, 2010, 10:11
Quote from: Clivia on March 30, 2010, 01:54
Hey that's my picture!
The smilie faces used by 123rf on the above link is one of mine.


I'm about to do a huge DERAIL...

About those smiley faces... are you, or anyone else with yellow smileys in your port, concerned about copyright aspects of that iconic image?   Apparently it's a hotly contested image right now (here's just one example for further reading ... http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4984138.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4984138.stm) ) and I think some of the sites are playing cautious and not letting new smileys in and sometimes going through and removing old ones from ports.  Anyone else seeing this happen?

Sorry for the derailment... now back to your regularly scheduled thread...
Title: Re: Has anyone heard about this "microstock website" ?
Post by: Clivia on March 31, 2010, 07:19
Quote from: PowerDroid on March 30, 2010, 10:11
Quote from: Clivia on March 30, 2010, 01:54
Hey that's my picture!
The smilie faces used by 123rf on the above link is one of mine.


I'm about to do a huge DERAIL...

About those smiley faces... are you, or anyone else with yellow smileys in your port, concerned about copyright aspects of that iconic image?   Apparently it's a hotly contested image right now (here's just one example for further reading ... [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4984138.stm[/url] ([url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4984138.stm[/url]) ) and I think some of the sites are playing cautious and not letting new smileys in and sometimes going through and removing old ones from ports.  Anyone else seeing this happen?

Sorry for the derailment... now back to your regularly scheduled thread...


Awww no!!! That's a good selling image.