A positive end to the saga: I contacted CE at iStock, as Sean suggested.   He apologized for the confusion, and said there does not appear to be any conflict between being an Exclusive Artist with iStock, and licensing your images as RM via Alamy. Within a few minutes, my exclusivity application was approved.

Thanks to everyone here, and especially to Sean, for your suggestions, and to iStock for recognizing that their interpretation of the Alamy agreement needed revisiting.

Ron

Hi Everyone:

I'm the "anonymous" original poster on the Yahoo Microstock group that has run into this Alamy/iStock Exclusivity problem. I've been in microstock and a member of iStock, among other sites, since 2004. But I'm a small player, and keep a low profile.

What was stated on the Yahoo Microstock forum (and recounted here) is correct and factual regarding my correspondence with iStock support. Needless to say, I too was surprised by the response. If you still doubt its credibility, please contact me directly, and I'll be happy to share the email correspondence with you in order to eliminate any doubts you might have. 

My real question: Sean you say that if anyone still has problems with this (which I do), point them to CE. Pardon the (probably) ignorant question, but what is CE?

Regards,

Ron