Good day everyone,

There is a change on photographer's agreement that appear highlighted in red when login in Istock.  I have read it and re-read it, and still don't understand what it exactly mean. If someone would like to explain it in French or with very easy English sentences (just like if you were talking to a young kid... lol)  It will be very helpful for me.

the bold text is the part that give me hard time.

Thanks!

Lana


# You represent and warrant that you shall not: (i) license your own Content (except occasionally and then only for legitimate creative purposes); or (ii) predominately license the content of only a few contributors. You agree that you will not collude with another iStockphoto member to have that member do either of (i) or (ii) above for your benefit. You acknowledge that genuine subscription customers typically license files from many contributors and you agree that your subscription licensing behavior will conform to this typical conduct. In addition to any other available remedies, if you breach this paragraph iStockphoto may immediately terminate this Agreement and/or, if applicable, cancel your subscription package without any refund to you. You further agree to forfeit any royalties earned by you in connection with your misconduct.

Thank you very very much Leaf.  Now, I can go type "I agree". 

Have a nice day.

Lana :-)

Oooops ... you read Leaf's before I got mine posted.   

Item (ii) is certainly curious.  Although the reason for it is clear, isn't it possible that I buy very few images and most of them from the same photographer due to his style or niche?

Regards,
Adelaide

If you are a low volume buyer, you probably won't purchase a subscription. If you were trying to play games with per image purchases (say to boost someone's best match position) you'd buy XS sizes only and new images primarily - I'd expect that pattern wouldn't hold for legitimate purchases (range of sizes, old and new images).

I could be wrong, but I can't see anyone getting caught by this new rule who is legitimately buying the images for the use of them (versus trying make some money for him/herself or others).

And if I recall, I think there was a thread here that mentioned a little "buying club" of sorts on IS. So to add to the pattern, the person you bought from would then be buying your images in return. Once the little buying ring gets going, it's not too hard to figure out what is going on because patterns would evolve quickly and woukd be very apparent.

If you were building a website and bought 6 images of the same flavor from one designer because you liked them, and then even went back a few more times and bought a few more, I doubt there would be any problem at all. But keep the same habits up for a month or longer and I coukd see where it could be construed as a little suspicious.