Do you know the circulation of the newspaper? If it's more than 499,999, then they would have needed an extended license. Do you know for a fact which agency they bought it from?

For IS, you can read a comparison chart of the licenses here:

http://www.istockphoto.com/license_comparison.php

You can check the other sites you have/had images on for the print restriction, but I believe most of the sites are the same.

A roadmap is not their newspaper!
As far as I know they are not allowed to sell your images on other products. Not with a standard license. Like your image used on a coffeemug or so. Don't see a difference with roadmaps as it comes to licences. But if it is allowed to give it away for free?
And if your image is licensed as editorial, is it allowed to use it for commercial purposes?
Send a mail with this question to the stock agency...

I think the days are over that our images make millions of dollars when printed on road maps, books, CD covers etc.

I don't even bother anymore trying to pursue such "lost" royalties.

On a side note: Images such as the one the OP was used, are better off at Macro agencies.

Just look at Alamy. There are tons of such images (this type of images). If you sold that one through RM you would have definitely gotten more out of it.

Next thing to consider is, how big is the market in the microstock world for such an image. Sure it's a nice image but it's not a business woman on a headset smiling if you get my drift. Is it really worth uploading that type of images to the micros?

In editorial or advertising copy in magazines, newspapers, books, book covers, textbooks, editorials and directories      YES      YES       Standard -- print run may not exceed 250,000 copies in the aggregate

Enhanced -- no limit on print run. Copyright notice, credit attribution required*
They probably can under 250K of copies...

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This is exactly what we should learn from, which image is for microstock and which one is not.

But here's the rub. That company wanted a nice image from Kvarner to put on their giveaway map. There are 35 images keyworded Kvarner on iStock alone (I guess yours must have come from a different agency). Why would they pay macro prices for a cover on a giveaway?
I've been supremely disappointed in Alamy. almost 900 pics (built up over 15 months); 5 sales, not yet reached payout. (Their 'Sell your image' page says the average editorial sale is $100, but that's gross. Their commission, and that of a distributor, if any, comes off that. (my total is under 50% the gross total)
Clearly I'm just not taking what their customers want, but it's quite hard to research what's selling, so you have to submit almost blind. The research that I'm doing suggests that what is selling in editorial shots isn't so different in type to what I'm submitting.
Of course, 900 is a drop in the ocean of "19.34 million" still images - in the macros, their total is shared with audio, video and Flash files.
That said, I'm trying to build up my Alamy portfolio, and have sent loads of stuff there over the past two months, because I prefer to see real editorial photos, so I prefer to be able to submit them 'real'.
Anyone have experience of Dreamweaver editorial?

Yes!

Microstock need better control over using of photos...

Probably SS do something in that direction (example, Avon license problem...)

Also website photorights.com and their forum...

Perhaps we should have greater involvement in their forum...

so this image usage is still within the licensing usage? possible to inquire the agency? if we think our image is misused without the right license, do we contact the agency or just the company?

Just take a deep breath, count up to 10 or down from 10 to 1 and continue working... It's not something you should worry about. It is RF Micro...

so a 25 cents download from shutterstock can use it as a bookcover? are all RF license over every agency can use for book cover?

I had seen a big coffee table book about travel in philippines using shutterstock photos.

Quote from: mtkang on July 21, 2010, 10:55

so this image usage is still within the licensing usage? possible to inquire the agency? if we think our image is misused without the right license, do we contact the agency or just the company?

In order to find out for sure you would have to contact the publisher or perhaps the printing company to get to the right person who can tell where the image came from.

One you have that information (good luck with that), you can contact the stock agency and ask if this specific use is covered.

They will let you know whether yes or no. If no there is a slight chance that the agency will contact the buyer and make them aware of their "mistake".
If things work out by the books, the appropriate license would be purchased after the fact and you should get the right amount of money.

IF it requires another license... IF !!!

I've seen my stuff on books, CDs, magazine covers and years ago I thought I can start looking into buying a yacht once my images are on the covers all over the place.
Pfff, forget it. Oftentimes a simple download at SS is enough to be printed on a book cover or CD - so don't get too excited over a free hand-out map...

Anyways, good luck.