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Microstock Photography Forum - General => Image Sleuth => Topic started by: ShadySue on March 30, 2011, 04:48

Title: 60 watermarked images
Post by: ShadySue on March 30, 2011, 04:48

I make no comment on the premise of the site, just that the 60 images are watermarked with a large variety of stock libraries from Getty to thinkstock.
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/60-completely-unusable-stock-photos (http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/60-completely-unusable-stock-photos)
(Very first photo: I remember way back when I was a student seeing a poster campaign featuring a 'pregnant man' with the slogan, "If you could get pregnant, you'd use contraception' or similar.)

Title: Re: 60 watermarked images
Post by: BaldricksTrousers on March 30, 2011, 05:39

Yup, they should be paying for the licenses. The people who shot those things surely deserve some sort of return from them  ;D

Title: Re: 60 watermarked images
Post by: michealo on March 30, 2011, 06:21

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on March 30, 2011, 05:39

Yup, they should be paying for the licenses. The people who shot those things surely deserve some sort of return from them  ;D

There is at least one in Vetta & it it has sold > 10 times

Title: Re: 60 watermarked images
Post by: jm on March 30, 2011, 06:28

All of them would be sold at least once - if Mr. Buzzfeed would pay for them.  :-\

Title: Re: 60 watermarked images
Post by: Xalanx on March 30, 2011, 07:26

The one with the chocolate and the woman wrapped in tinfoil is absolutely great.
Also, a lot others of those images can have a use.

Title: Re: 60 watermarked images
Post by: BaldricksTrousers on March 30, 2011, 09:46

Quote from: michealo on March 30, 2011, 06:21

Quote from: BaldricksTrousers on March 30, 2011, 05:39

Yup, they should be paying for the licenses. The people who shot those things surely deserve some sort of return from them  ;D

There is at least one in Vetta & it it has sold > 10 times

But we don't know if it sold >10 times as Vetta or if some or all the sales were from before. I always have a clear idea of at least some ways in which my work might be useful before uploading it and with a couple of exceptions I find it hard to think of uses for that 60. I guess it makes some sense to have the bizarre on agencies like Getty, where a single sale might justify the production effort.

Title: Re: 60 watermarked images
Post by: Fred on March 30, 2011, 09:51

Hmmmmmmm  Unusable or not they have used them all and now they need to pay for them.

fred

Title: Re: 60 watermarked images
Post by: mantonino on March 30, 2011, 12:40

What if they just want to educate us and then could claim educational fair use?  

:-)

(btw. this is a joke. I know I have to clarify sometimes.)

Title: Re: 60 watermarked images
Post by: gostwyck on March 30, 2011, 13:04

Quote from: Fred on March 30, 2011, 09:51

Hmmmmmmm  Unusable or not they have used them all and now they need to pay for them.

fred

If they'd have linked the images back to their source (which they have not done so) could they have justifiably claimed that they were advertising or promoting the images?

Title: Re: 60 watermarked images
Post by: Blufish on March 30, 2011, 13:22

Didn't this happen about 6 or 9 months ago?  I swear I've seen this here before