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cuppacoffee

« on: August 08, 2013, 06:27 »
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Got this in my email - http://www.graphicstock.com/page/about/. Their contact info says that they are in Virginia, USA.

To celebrate the launch of GraphicStock.com, they are giving away 7 days of complimentary access to download anything you want at no charge:

7 Days of Complimentary Downloads: 50,000+ Images

You can download anything you want on GraphicStock.com for 7 days (20 images per day). This includes icons, backgrounds, textures, vectors and many more graphical elements.

GraphicStock is only giving this complimentary access to a limited number of users, so start downloading now.


Under Their submit link they only have a survey -

GraphicStock is seeking new content
 
We are searching for new stock images, vectors, buttons, icons, illustrations and other types of royalty free images that we can distribute through GraphicStock.com.

Please use this survey to tell us what type of content you have, so we can follow up with you to discuss purchasing it and/or distributing it.
« Last Edit: August 08, 2013, 06:32 by cuppacoffee »


« Reply #1 on: August 08, 2013, 07:36 »
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If you want to be a contributor, here is a key part of the "questionnaire" we would have to answer.

4. Would you be willing to sell us non-exclusive rights to distribute your stock photos in exchange for an up front fee per image, instead of being paid a commission when your clips sell?

It would work like this: If we like your content, we would make you an offer to pay you immediately for the right to distribute your images through our company forever, instead of waiting until your images sell to pay you a royalty on each sale.

This would be non exclusive, so you could continue using them and selling them through other companies like normal.
Would you be willing to sell us non-exclusive rights to distribute your [q3] in exchange for an up front fee per image, instead of being paid a commission when your clips sell? It would work like this: If we like your content, we would make you an offer to pay you immediately for the right to distribute your images through our company forever, instead of waiting until your images sell to pay you a royalty on each sale. This would be non exclusive, so you could continue using them and selling them through other companies like normal.   NO, I would not sell you distribution rights.
YES, and I would charge you this much per clip up front:

« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2013, 07:52 »
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Has anybody received an offer from them?

EmberMike

« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2013, 08:05 »
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It's a $69 unlimited subscription deal. I sent in the questionnaire to find out more, but I'm not holding my breath that this is going to be any sort of enticing offer. Can't imagine what the royalty rate could be if they're only charging the customer $69 per month.

« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2013, 09:14 »
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Has anybody received an offer from them?

I negotiated with them earlier this year. It was a very generous offer, but in the end I decided not to accept it. I wasn't sure if I wanted to help launch an unlimited subs program. I'm probably dumb for not accepting it, but the whole thing scared me a little because it would seem to undo a lot of the work I did over the last few years.

« Reply #5 on: August 08, 2013, 15:55 »
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They will get your images "FOREVER" according to their terms.

BD

« Reply #6 on: August 08, 2013, 23:42 »
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Unless I missed it, I did not see any mention of models in either the terms of service or license agreement. Apparently, such images can be used in ANY way? They also state they hold no liability. It seems that might fall to the contributor.

They can change terms at any time. Even if you are ok with the terms now, they may change them at any time and you have no option to remove your images as they have them forever.

« Reply #7 on: August 09, 2013, 00:01 »
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Has anybody received an offer from them?

I negotiated with them earlier this year. It was a very generous offer, but in the end I decided not to accept it. I wasn't sure if I wanted to help launch an unlimited subs program. I'm probably dumb for not accepting it, but the whole thing scared me a little because it would seem to undo a lot of the work I did over the last few years.

How much are they paying for 1 single design and where are they distributing to?
Is it possible to send them Raster instead of Vector raw files?

Sound very tempting but it seems like it is more for ppl who are interested in short terms benefits.

« Reply #8 on: August 09, 2013, 11:16 »
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They will get your images "FOREVER" according to their terms.

Mine definitely wasn't for that. I don't know how anyone could make a forever deal.

Sound very tempting but it seems like it is more for ppl who are interested in short terms benefits.

That was my biggest fear was short term money for long term problems. It wouldn't take long (or much money) for somebody to download all my files. Looking at the download counts/view counts on the site (if accurate), it looks like those fears were justified.

« Reply #9 on: August 09, 2013, 18:32 »
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They will get your images "FOREVER" according to their terms.

Mine definitely wasn't for that. I don't know how anyone could make a forever deal.

So you were with them at some point and you had no problems pulling your images? Just curious.

« Reply #10 on: August 09, 2013, 18:48 »
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They will get your images "FOREVER" according to their terms.

Mine definitely wasn't for that. I don't know how anyone could make a forever deal.

So you were with them at some point and you had no problems pulling your images? Just curious.

Nope, just negotiations. I assume they just launched recently because they weren't open when I talked to them. They run VideoBlocks.com and some other sites and wanted to expand into graphics/vectors.

« Reply #11 on: August 10, 2013, 11:07 »
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They contacted me as well. Offered a 5 digit number for my portfolio. It all sounded nice and all but after reading through their website I'm glad i didn't.

« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2013, 06:57 »
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They contacted me as well. Offered a 5 digit number for my portfolio. It all sounded nice and all but after reading through their website I'm glad i didn't.

A 5 digit number for your entire portfolio? That sounds pretty cheap, depending on the size of your portfolio, although I wouldn't expect to make that much money on a new stock site.

« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2013, 10:48 »
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They contacted me as well. Offered a 5 digit number for my portfolio. It all sounded nice and all but after reading through their website I'm glad i didn't.

looking forward to hear my offer ;D

« Reply #14 on: August 17, 2013, 12:58 »
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Joel Holland is disrupting the stock footage industry with a Netflix-like subscription model that has attracted a mass market of amateur video enthusiasts to his company Video Blocks.

http://www.inc.com/30under30/richard-murphy/video-blocks-joel-holland-2013.html

« Reply #15 on: August 17, 2013, 19:38 »
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They contacted me as well. Offered a 5 digit number for my portfolio. It all sounded nice and all but after reading through their website I'm glad i didn't.

looking forward to hear my offer ;D

I'm still waiting for mine.


« Reply #17 on: September 11, 2013, 16:09 »
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My impression is that this is not about selling cheap subs. Its about buying graphics/clips for $2 and selling them as a collection to big players later on for $10 a file. Imagine being replaced on sites with your own content...

Hmm... Well if a big player wants to buy me out at $10 a file, I might have to do it.

fritz

  • I love Tom and Jerry music

« Reply #18 on: September 13, 2013, 18:39 »
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EmberMike

« Reply #19 on: September 13, 2013, 19:37 »
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This is getting to be a really interesting issue. $15,000 isn't an easy sum of money to turn down, it certainly would make me stop and think about it. I'll probably be in a similar position shortly, as I replied to their email asking for more details on what they're offering. I'm curious to see what they put on the table.

What has me concerned is the uncertainty of it. "Perpetual" is a scary word. But I'm guessing they're not interested in making deals with expiration dates.

On the other hand, a few years from now will I really care if this company has perpetual rights to keep selling all of the work I did years ago, and has no rights to anything I've done since then? It's not like I'd be handing over my ability to work in this business.

And how is this any different than getting paid a similar sum over the course of several years? Aside from the perpetuity of the deal, of course, and my inability to ever get my images back out of it.

So I'm wrestling with those questions as well as trying to figure out what a fair value of a portfolio is when we're talking about selling resale rights, not full rights. We've all thrown around the hypothetical question of "What would you accept to be bought out of your portfolio?", but that was always full rights and large sums of money, usually six figures for most of us. This is a different story.

I'm not sure what I'd do. Need to think on it a bit more.

« Reply #20 on: September 13, 2013, 19:45 »
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indeed, very interesting, was that the amount per file that you asked or have they lowered it?

I might take the bait if they offer me something like that ;D

fritz

  • I love Tom and Jerry music

« Reply #21 on: September 14, 2013, 05:16 »
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« Reply #22 on: September 14, 2013, 05:52 »
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It's a very low offer for 7000 files..

I would refuse it right away..

Ron

« Reply #23 on: September 14, 2013, 06:02 »
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Is it likely that those 7000 files are going to make 15 thousand dollar on that site when you would upload them there yourself? If the answer is no, then take it.

fritz

  • I love Tom and Jerry music

« Reply #24 on: September 14, 2013, 06:14 »
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