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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: Greg Boiarsky on July 12, 2006, 09:54
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Just blowing off some steam here. But, I can't believe some of these sites. Dreamstime requires a model's phone number, and Istock requires a photocopy of an ID.
Not to be snippy, but there are a lot of homeless people with interesting and gorgeous faces; these people don't have phone numbers or photo IDs. They can sign a legal contract, which is what my model releases are: They have names, signatures, and witness signatures. Why does an agency need a photo ID? All that does is put my models at risk of ID theft--what if someone hacks the agency Web site? What if someone steals my computer with all those records scanned as jpegs?
Jeez. I guess Istock and Dreamstime won't get photos from most of my models. It's a shame, because both sites are good places to sell.
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phone number.. yeah that is abit of a ridiculous thing, but photo id. I am not sure what they want, but I have just attached a picture of the model to the release. No ID, just a photo that I took during the shoot with a close up of their face.