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boycott shutterstock
Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: Shelma1 on September 15, 2020, 14:23 ---It was in the works long before Pavlovsky became CEO, IMO. Getting rid of customer service for contributors, tons of rejections for established contributors, flooding the site with similars, allowing 50 identical keywords until we put up a big stink, smaller and smaller royalties and fewer and fewer big sales...that all started years ago.
Shutterstock was never about helping contributors make a living or being a viable business long term. Its only purpose was to make Oringer, the investors and a couple of chosen others rich.
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Ding Ding Ding and a Bingo. ;D
And none of the other sites are either. Many have pretended, but the truth is, this is nothing but getting images and video for the lowest cost, and making the most profit for the owners.
Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: Hannafate on September 09, 2020, 07:31 ---
--- Quote from: BryonManning on September 08, 2020, 14:48 ---And why the boycott? I have about 100 photos there, I sometimes get royalties. There have never been any problems.
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Have you done a google reverse image search for your photos? You may be surprised to see them in use in more places than your royalties can account for.
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You talking about Dreamstime or Deposit Photos?
trabuco:
--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on September 18, 2020, 13:28 ---
--- Quote from: Hannafate on September 09, 2020, 07:31 ---
--- Quote from: BryonManning on September 08, 2020, 14:48 ---And why the boycott? I have about 100 photos there, I sometimes get royalties. There have never been any problems.
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Have you done a google reverse image search for your photos? You may be surprised to see them in use in more places than your royalties can account for.
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You talking about Dreamstime or Deposit Photos?
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What? I have seen my Deposit files in other places but linked to Deposit.
Uncle Pete:
--- Quote from: trabuco on September 19, 2020, 00:08 ---
--- Quote from: Uncle Pete on September 18, 2020, 13:28 ---
--- Quote from: Hannafate on September 09, 2020, 07:31 ---
--- Quote from: BryonManning on September 08, 2020, 14:48 ---And why the boycott? I have about 100 photos there, I sometimes get royalties. There have never been any problems.
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Have you done a google reverse image search for your photos? You may be surprised to see them in use in more places than your royalties can account for.
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You talking about Dreamstime or Deposit Photos?
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What? I have seen my Deposit files in other places but linked to Deposit.
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Not linked, not sourced, not credited.
Have you seen you iStock, Dreamstime or other places photos as Hanna has observed? Especially questionable is how some images arrived at Freepix? I know she's hinting that they come from SS, but they also come from other places. If someone can see your image on their computer, it's already stored on their computer. Image theft isn't difficult or limited to one agency. Problem is, many have hundreds of partners and we don't know who has access and rights to resell our work.
--- Quote from: Hannafate on September 09, 2020, 07:31 ---Have you done a google reverse image search for your photos? You may be surprised to see them in use in more places than your royalties can account for.
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How do you know where they were stolen from or who's an API partner and legal or not. Big mess and they don't tell us much.
duns123:
--- Quote from: Shelma1 on September 15, 2020, 14:23 ---It was in the works long before Pavlovsky became CEO, IMO. Getting rid of customer service for contributors, tons of rejections for established contributors, flooding the site with similars, allowing 50 identical keywords until we put up a big stink, smaller and smaller royalties and fewer and fewer big sales...that all started years ago.
Shutterstock was never about helping contributors make a living or being a viable business long term. Its only purpose was to make Oringer, the investors, and a couple of chosen others rich.
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Well said and totally true. Can I ask someone on the forum if I can leave SS as a contributor BEFORE I get to the minimum payout? I can't say what I earned so far but had over 60 DLs but not close to the min threshold. I was only there for a few months when they cut the payments last May.
I read in the T&C's that if you close your account before reaching it you lose your earnings. If true not a fair deal at all.
Oh here's a little drawing that I did about them The guy in the pinstripe suit is the CEO of SS. The drawing's not very good but it's funny I think.
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