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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: spriteor7up on December 09, 2010, 15:32
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A friend told me facebook is banned in China. Amazing...its definitely a different place.
Lets suppose someone moved to china, involved and established in microstock. Are there any factors that would stop them from being successful?
Conversely, if someone lived in China as a citizen, would that affect anything?
Payouts?
Rights?
Anyone's knowledge would be appreciated.
If there are problems, are their workarounds? What would it take to make a successful living from a place like China?
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Lets suppose someone moved to china, involved and established in microstock. Are there any factors that would stop them from being successful?
You're surround by Chinese models, and the Chinese are not particularly known for respecting copyright, so your main market would probably steal your work.
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A friend told me facebook is banned in China. Amazing...its definitely a different place.
Sounds like heaven
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If there are problems, are their workarounds? What would it take to make a successful living from a place like China?
I suppose knowing the Chinese (Mandarin) language would be quite helpful ;D
Workaround: hiring an interpreter ;)
Can you speak / read Chinese?
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Actually copyright should not be a problem. Its more about having my existing portfolio keep producing. Payouts would be my concern.
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China has 7400 + km high speed rail, and looks to expand it to 16 000 km by 2020, which means they probably finish sooner. China is the future, their cities will be center of commerce, shopping, entertainment you name it, the places everyone wants to go to live. I have a friend teaching english there, and he always notes me I should go there if I like shooting nice gals, because chinese girls in the cities are dam' cute, very body conscious, you can walk all day without seeing a single girl who isn't slender (opposite of usa), and they gladly model just for pics.
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Actually copyright should not be a problem. Its more about having my existing portfolio keep producing. Payouts would be my concern.
China uses Paypal, Moneybookers and Payoneer. You shouldn't have any problem with payouts. Online shopping, credit cards, debit cards, etc is a huge business in China. You are talking about one of the world's largest economies that will soon overtake the US.
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Probably a little off topic since the OP cares about payouts and not the actual buyer market in china since i dont think there is a large enough market yet. In 5 years, i think there will be.
Are there enough content creators right now in china? Is the chinese government making money off them? taxes and such? Im not familiar with the process there but I cant see the leaders of that country doing anything to protect western intellectual property rights that they dont make a penny/yuan on. Im sure its like this in any country where the govt has no stake losing revenue due to copyright infringement.
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If there are problems, are their workarounds?
Well, if you're living in China, I'd advise you against winning a Nobel Peace Prize. That'll get you thrown in jail for many years. I guess the 'workaround' would be starting a war or at least not writing essays in favour of human rights.
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I don't know if they have people doing microstock in China, but they certainly use microstock in China.
My stepdad works in the nuclear power industry and has lived and worked in Shanghai for the past two years. Imagine his surprise when during a meeting, the powerpoint presentation had a picture of his son-in-law (my hubby)!
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I don't know if they have people doing microstock in China, but they certainly use microstock in China.
My stepdad works in the nuclear power industry and has lived and worked in Shanghai for the past two years. Imagine his surprise when during a meeting, the powerpoint presentation had a picture of his son-in-law (my hubby)!
Thanks to the map at SS, I have seen several of my Shutterstock images sold in China.