https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/have-iphone-cameras-become-too-smart

Is computational photography killing creativity and making all the images look alike?

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-ny-graffiti-artists-settlement-20180212-story.html

Judge awards graffiti artists $6.7 million after their New York works were destroyed

Best part is the building owner, who painted over the works and tore down the buildings was the defendant. This is going to be appealed of course, but shows how dumb things can be. Who wants to defend against a lawsuit from an artist or a vandal? Some of these people had permission to paint on the buildings.

Bigger issue, is graffiti protected under federal law?

This is how absurd the politics have become, attackers say she used a stock photo, I thought it was fun. Is this your pecan pie?  Same goes for most of what goes on here with politics too.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5115965/Piegate-White-House-Press-head-accused-stock-pie-pic.html

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders shared a maybe too good to be true photo of a pecan pie she says she made for Thanksgiving
Internet conspiracy theorists jumped in saying it was a stock photo of a pie
White House correspondent April Ryan egged on the sweet debate calling on Sanders to show her cooking and people eating the said pie

This will be interesting. Looks like a good idea, but so did starting in Microstock.  https://tinyurl.com/y9rs965r

You will only see your creative stills ESP submissions in the app. We don�t show existing ESP Editorial, illustration or video submissions because the app doesn�t support that content yet.

Diamond D's brothel began construction on an expansion of their building to increase their ever-growing business.

In response, the local Baptist Church started a campaign to block the business from expanding -- with morning, afternoon, and evening prayer sessions at their church.

Work on Diamond D's progressed right up until the week before the grand re-opening when lightning struck the whorehouse and burned it to the ground!

After the brothel burned to the ground by the lightning strike, the church folks were rather smug in their outlook, bragging about "the power of prayer."

But late last week 'Big Jugs' Jill Diamond, the owner/madam, sued the church, the preacher and the entire congregation on the grounds that the church ..."was ultimately responsible for the demise of her building and her business -- either through direct or indirect divine actions or means."

In its reply to the court, the church vehemently and vociferously denied any and all responsibility or any connection to the building's demise.

The crusty old judge read through the plaintiff's complaint and the defendant's reply, and at the opening hearing he commented, "I don't know how . I'm going to decide this case, but it appears from the paperwork, that we now have a whorehouse owner who staunchly believes in the power of prayer....and an entire church congregation that thinks it's all Bull

What an interesting turn of events in Pahrump, Nevada...

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/andy-warhol-estate-sues-over-image-of-prince/ar-BBzxXTn?OCID=ansmsnnews11

Works are "transformative and protected by fair use". My Ass!

If I can steal your work and paint it, then claim it's transformative. Nothing is protected.

Since people here are telling me that stockholders make the money and we tell SSTK what to do and how to run the business, I'm selling all of my other stocks and buying SSTK. Unfortunately I think it's far over valued, but people her have assured me, I'll be making all the profits off your hard work.

"Taking a closer look at Shutterstock's results, growth in some of the company's key operational metrics looked a bit less robust than investors had seen in previous quarters. Paid downloads were up just 8% to 41.2 million, showing growth that has slowed considerably since the beginning of the year." http://www.fool.com/investing/2016/11/04/shutterstock-shares-fall-on-weak-sales-guidance.aspx?source=djc&utm_campaign=article&utm_medium=feed&utm_source=djc

Are you people sure I'm going to be rich and telling SS what to do after I sell all my other stocks? I mean I want to be sure that the people on the forums are all knowing about how stockholders are behind the search changes and why some people incomes are down. I want to be a stockholder and tell them to increase my sales. You know, insiders get better placement in the search?

Saw this today. 1. Represents the forfeiture by Mr. Lieberman, who resigned effective as of December 13, 2016, of a prior grant of restricted stock units from the Issuer pursuant to the Issuer's Amended and Restated 2012 Omnibus Equity Incentive Plan. Each such restricted stock unit represented a contingent right to receive one share of the Issuer's common stock and, as of Mr. Lieberman's resignation, such restricted stock units had not vested. As a result, pursuant to the terms of the grant, the shares were forfeited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insight_Venture_Partners

I'm looking forward to being one of those wealthy stockholders who run the company. But I'm pretty sure it's the venture partners who call the shots, not the stockholders.

I will get the annual reports or access to them online, and news. Should have bought last year when it was down to 26. I think I'll start looking for a low in the mid-30s for a buy.

Maybe I should be buying Adobe instead? Revenues are up 20% year-over-year, and net income is up 55%. Profits have more than doubled from where they were in 2013 and 2014, while investments in the cloud transition were being made.

SHUTTERSTOCK STATS: 100,089,171 royalty-free stock images

Now back to work.  We can talk about 110 million in a few months. 

Poll Results Question because poll doesn't show video vs photo. P5 has passed DT by 2 points. Is that mostly video or are they selling photos too?

http://thenextweb.com/dd/2015/07/28/why-everyone-is-a-designer-but-shouldnt-design/

Why everyone is a photographer and some people shouldn't be. Look at the photo credits, Shutterstock and creative commons. Do creative commons get paid for the use. The story hits a point why some people shouldn't be in Micro. I see the same arguments about professional as here.

I'll fall on the sword to start this. Everybody who is a stock photographer making money is a designer. It's part of the same work to take a good stock photo. I design it and shoot it. I make money, I'm a professional.

http://www.bigstockphoto.com/video/free-trial

Anything left below free?