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Most of us here don't read Korean.

Think you're on the wrong site. Try it without the "m" in .com. dstock.co

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I would need to know a little more about your company before I'd do that. What else can you tell us about dstock? What's the plan for marketing and promotion? How do you intend to succeed in a market already full of strong competition from companies like Shutterstock, Dreamstime, Veer, iStock, etc?

A lot of "There are images for this category yet. " with 'no'. missing.

I really don't understand the difference between your $6 'simple licence' and your $125 'enhanced licence'.

$6 'simple licence':
Display or make derivative works
Use it for personal projects
Use it for clients, but for one commercial client
Share with multi-seat users within same company for one commercial project
You may not use it on products or services that will be resold or promoted
You may not redistribute or sublicense content to a 3rd party

$125 'Enhanced licence':
Display or make derivative works for products or services that will be resold or promoted
Use it in advertising, annual reports, brochures, catalogues, editorial, cards, packaging, poster or print, mobile websites, applications, video, film and commercials
Unlimited production per commercial product
You may not redistribute or sublicense content to a 3rd party

What do you mean by 'display', bearing in mind the term 'promoted' (see below).

The sentence "Use it for clients, but for one commercial client" is convoluted for what I assume you mean, "Use in one commercial project only", except that again, there is that term 'promoted'.

What do you mean by 'a product or service that will be promoted'? How does that differ from the 'commercial project'? (I understand 'resold'.)

Is "United States person" a legal entity? Isn't the normal term 'citizen'?

"You may remove Content at any time provided that it does not exceed more than 25% of your uploaded Content in any 90-day period. We request this to insure Buyers experience a reasonably consistent and seamless Service. " So effectively, a proportion of any contributor's content is held for a long time.
1000 photos.
Within 90 days, 250 pics can be removed. 750 remain.
Within the next 90 days, a further 187 can be removed (rounding down). 563 remain.
Within the next 90 days, a further 140 can be removed. 423 remain
etc etc.
The buyer might have wanted one of the 250 pics originally removed.

What do you mean by 'sublicensed' in "Content removed by a Contributor may be available for download to Buyers that previously sublicensed the removed Content." Both your simple and enhanced licences expressly forbid sublicensing.

Oh, God here we go again! Let me guess- higher commissions, faster reviews and folks who truly care about us... yada yada...

On the surface, it's not bad. 50% royalties, that's at least a conversation starter.

Let's hear what they have to say. If we write off everything straight away, nothing new will ever rise up out of this mess.

I took a look at your web site - as noted above, there is currently only a small amount of content. It's also all very small - 620 pixels on the long edge on the items I checked out. Is that because of the cheap price for the simple license? But if so, who is going to pay $125 for an enhanced license for such a tiny image?

And the vectors are also $6. The ones on the site are so simple, that's not an unfair price, but for a more complex vector, I can't see why anyone would sell it so cheaply.

Then there's the notion that contributors have to upload in collections, with a minimum number of images:

"You upload Content as Collections. A Collection has a minimum of 4 images executed in the same medium, style and theme, and you may have multiple Collections"

Are you really after drawings and paintings, not photographs?

The big thing is that you haven't said anything about your plans for this agency and marketing it to buyers. I think you'll need to put in a bit more effort to explain to us why we would want to upload content on your site than "we are looking for contributors! please sign up today!"

If there's a language barrier, perhaps you know someone who can translate what you want to say into English.

And the OP is gone. Guess that says enough about what dstock is all about. Pop in, ask for contributors, don't answer questions, and leave.

Bizarre.

The site is up and there are a couple of new items. Perhaps the OP didn't understand the audience here and we weren't what the site was looking for - but it would have been polite to say so and then depart, versus just vanish.

So I've had a really good email exchange today with Ben and Marilina at dstock. As much as it seemed like things got off on the wrong foot here, ultimately I think they are really on the right track with launching something that may prove to be very interesting.

It turns out that Marilina may have gotten a little ahead of herself with announcing dstock here. They really weren't ready to reveal the site, and I think it's easy to see why. There is still a lot of work to be done. But they are doing it, and they will be back here at MSG when the time is right and dstock is ready for a proper (re)introduction.

I wouldn't write this one off. It may have been a rocky reveal here but I really like some of the things that Ben told me today about what they are doing and what their priorities are, and although I don't want to say too much from what was discussed in private emails, I think most folks here will be a lot more happy with dstock when it really starts to come together.