Please note, that file belongs to an inspector.

Uploaded to iStock 11-07-07

Photographer oversight or breach of exclusive contract?

This started because Sean Locke found that IngramPublishing had an iStock a/c  as an exclusive, although no images uploaded to it yet.

That started people looking at what Ingram had and Paul Cowan (independent) mentioned that he had some files that were sold through Ingram and wondered how it would be if those ended up in the high price Agency Collection, supposedly an iStock/Getty "family" exclusive.

I found one of Jaimie Duplass' images (the young girl dressed as an angel that's sold all over) at Ingram, so if iStock isn't careful, it'll end up taking independent content into this supposedly exclusive program - and have the same file twice on its own site at two different prices.

An industrious contributor found the inspectors images (it's more than one) on Ingram. It isn't every Vetta image there though, just some...

What a total Cl*#$%r F(@k!

It rather looks as if someone has been playing away from home, doesn't it? What an effing embarrassment.

This is so depressing. I've got to stop reading the forums or I'll finish up down by the railway tracks drinking Special Brew and sitting next to someone who smells like a drain.

This just came up in the forum at IS
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-2623466-twin-girls-dressed-in-men-s-clothes.php

http://www.canstockphoto.com/twin-girls-dressed-in-mens-clothes-0484750.html

Same contributor! I cant wait to see the outcome of this

This just came up in the forum at IS
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-2623466-twin-girls-dressed-in-men-s-clothes.php

http://www.canstockphoto.com/twin-girls-dressed-in-mens-clothes-0484750.html

Same contributor! I cant wait to see the outcome of this

Wow.  Nice find. 

I always wondered if some exclusives somewhere might try to cheat on their exclusive agreement.  But even so, this is shocking.  And a Vetta, no less?! 

This is one area where I actually agree with the direction Getty is taking. I would think that the collection needs to be different than that of what is on iStock already. Micro has really narrowed the perception of what a good stock image is for a lot of photographers who participate in it. With it's never ending technical requirements. It's like making rules for writing that only allow for certain phrases or word combinations. Pretty soon everything reads the same. The same can be said for music. Think of music where only certain beats and chord combinations could be used. If you hear enough of it, that's all that sounds good to you. Then you hear something different and call it garbage. That's what micro has done for photographic style.  I don't mean to offend anyone here, it's just a general observation. The other thing that micro has really narrowed is photographer's perception of what a client is willing to pay for an image. There are lots of clients paying lots of money still. Let them pay. Quite trying to drag high paying clients down.

WOW WOW WOW this is such an incredible good post! I totally agree with you!
 

It's easy to pick bad examples but even than it is still a matter of taste.

Quote from: abimages on September 16, 2010, 14:46

This just came up in the forum at IS
http://www.istockphoto.com/stock-photo-2623466-twin-girls-dressed-in-men-s-clothes.php

http://www.canstockphoto.com/twin-girls-dressed-in-mens-clothes-0484750.html

Same contributor! I cant wait to see the outcome of this

Wow.  Nice find. 

I always wondered if some exclusives somewhere might try to cheat on their exclusive agreement.  But even so, this is shocking.  And a Vetta, no less?! 

That was removed from istock quick.  Might be that they just forgot to delete it from canstock, as they joined there in 2006 and only had 20 images.  They haven't even made enough there to get a payout, just 19 sales, so doesn't look like a deliberate cheat.

She's locked out now. But it is hard to attribute malice to someone leaving a couple of dozen files on Canstock. If you were deliberately screwing the system Canstock wouldn't be the place to do it. Probably just a f**K up that she's going to pay dearly for.

There were two on that macro site, what other micros were there, do you know?

But how does that explain the Ingram pics?

Quote from: grp_photo on September 16, 2010, 15:04

It's easy to pick bad examples but even than it is still a matter of taste.

Taste.  Yep.

It is actually very "stockish" but certainly only usable for the German-speaking market. The Germans, Swiss and Austrians are rich - let them pay big bucks ;-).

So maybe that's why macro agencies are falling. They have lots of old and overpriced stuff and they think they are superior to micros :-)