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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock is unsafe.
« on: April 22, 2017, 15:51 »
For people who missed information:
All models were informed very well:
- They saw major agencies sites
- They have read a Model Release ( we use the one based on iStock )
- I explained very well what will happen to images
They got money from me to their hands directly and their boss did not get anything from them.
Theu signed releases by themselves.
Their boss just gave them some additional money. That was what they told me and i do not know why he did it. Maybe he was in a good mood or who knows.
In my stock career i was working with 500-700 models. And it is the only case.
You must know that very often circus these circus workers are sleeping for money with their bosses or rich people. Boys and girls.. Same. They are coming to Russia to earn money and build a house in their african countries.
So.. based on behavior of this exact model it is clear that she just want money and nothing else. Because she said to me that if i pay she will stop. But if i do this it will repeat in few months again. and than again. You should never let such people get what they ask.
What about Shutterstock.. It is bad that authors feel unsafe. Because you can invest and then you will be punished for nothing. Because they don't care and spend no time to solve the problem.
Also they ask me to delete few hundreds of images. Okay.. But who will give me back money i spent on props, models, studio, retouching, keywording, uploading? Who will give me money for my time and work as photographer? Who will give me money for deleting?
Did you see their interface? Okay if i can delete just using content manager and just place it in one set and delete.. But i should delete one by one from page to page and it will take 1-2-3 days! Who will pay me for this?
Also what about images with group of people involving this crappy model? Why should i delete images with other people? And what if they like to be models? What if they send me images of them from Kenya and they are happy to be printed somewhere in Nairobi?
Why it must affect so many people if only one person decided to change her mind? She signed? yes.. She worked? yes. She got the money? yes. So why?
I think that you should decide before other people worked. But after decision you must be responsive and do not affect badly on other people.
All models were informed very well:
- They saw major agencies sites
- They have read a Model Release ( we use the one based on iStock )
- I explained very well what will happen to images
They got money from me to their hands directly and their boss did not get anything from them.
Theu signed releases by themselves.
Their boss just gave them some additional money. That was what they told me and i do not know why he did it. Maybe he was in a good mood or who knows.
In my stock career i was working with 500-700 models. And it is the only case.
You must know that very often circus these circus workers are sleeping for money with their bosses or rich people. Boys and girls.. Same. They are coming to Russia to earn money and build a house in their african countries.
So.. based on behavior of this exact model it is clear that she just want money and nothing else. Because she said to me that if i pay she will stop. But if i do this it will repeat in few months again. and than again. You should never let such people get what they ask.
What about Shutterstock.. It is bad that authors feel unsafe. Because you can invest and then you will be punished for nothing. Because they don't care and spend no time to solve the problem.
Also they ask me to delete few hundreds of images. Okay.. But who will give me back money i spent on props, models, studio, retouching, keywording, uploading? Who will give me money for my time and work as photographer? Who will give me money for deleting?
Did you see their interface? Okay if i can delete just using content manager and just place it in one set and delete.. But i should delete one by one from page to page and it will take 1-2-3 days! Who will pay me for this?
Also what about images with group of people involving this crappy model? Why should i delete images with other people? And what if they like to be models? What if they send me images of them from Kenya and they are happy to be printed somewhere in Nairobi?
Why it must affect so many people if only one person decided to change her mind? She signed? yes.. She worked? yes. She got the money? yes. So why?
I think that you should decide before other people worked. But after decision you must be responsive and do not affect badly on other people.
