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The image IDs match to Fotolia image numbers so I assume it's a Fotolia affiliate.
Quote from: click_click on July 19, 2011, 17:51The image IDs match to Fotolia image numbers so I assume it's a Fotolia affiliate.Perhaps, but they are selling those images on Print-on-Demand products. Does FT have a license for that? If so, then there might not be an issue.
From Fotolia "Sizes and uses":Creation of derivative products (posters, t-shirts...) intended for resale is allowed but requires an extended licencehttp://en.fotolia.com/Info/SizesAndUses
If you go to create a product it states that price includes licensing fee, but the licensing fees I saw were only 5 or 10 dollars.
You can ask FT to turn off all your EL's for you. They're pretty good about doing that.
...One of the customers who bought a product with my image on who left the comment stated he needed it and got it before April....
You will be paid each time an image sells according to the agreement - some of the images on the website sell regularly and some never - depends on the image as there are more than 10 million. You will be paid each time that image is used so many artists are paid regularly over and over for the same image - it just depends on how popular that image is. The fee is transferred directly as the two systems are connected so you will be paid for each sale individually. We can not download the large image file until the stock gallery has been paid first. If you do not show any fees paid in your account then that image has not sold yet. When you do sell an image it will tell you who that image was sold to as well.
I think I recall a discussion several years ago regarding an arrangement of this sort. The deal was that they don't buy an EL but each time they sell a print they buy a license just for the size needed for that print. There was some discussion about whether this was right from a contributor's point of view and I think the agency argument was that if the buyer purchased a license they'd be entitled to make themselves a print of what they licensed to hang on their wall. The only difference here was that the print seller was doing the purchase on the clients behalf. The thing that's so hard to police is whether they really are buying a new license for each print.