That's good to know. That will at least get it down to just one release used by all sites. So if I understand you correctly...I am in the US, so for the country language in the second paragraph I could just change to "I agree that this release is irrevocable, worldwide and perpetual, and will be governed by the laws of the United States"?

I guess you will have to add the US state too, since laws might be different per state. IS mentions "New York".
I just had a look at the DT and SS releases, and there is no mentioning of any country of jurisdiction. So perhaps it's overkill, but the simplest way to go is follow the IS release since they are the strictest.

A couple of years ago I remember Serban actually expressing disbelief on the forums why anybody who has a Downloads-per-image of 4 or higher wasn't uploading as many images as they could.

The new gizmo is "collages" (of similars). I want to give that a try honestly in view of the level system, but only on DT. IS hates collages.

No idea about battery life ... I use it primarily as a desktop.  Even on the road, I run it from an electrical outlet.

That's not so friendly for the battery. If you use it for a longer time on an outlet, better remove the battery. A battery anyways lasts only 2-3 years. My HP battery lasted 1.5 years. (HP Pavillion laptop).

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Quote from: FD-amateur on November 22, 2009, 18:42

...On the Getty/iStock release (which I use now with site logo removed) ....

You can still use this for Dreamstime? Mine got rejected.

Really? Mine got all accepted. What was the remark?

Rejection reason: "Your MR document is governed by the laws of a different country than the model's or photographer's and other than US..."

Yes, I had that too once. The country you fill in should be either (a) your own (as photographer), (b) that of the model, (c) the US+state. In my case it was a mistake of them since I filled in 'Belgium' (my official country of residence) but they couldn't read my address well (font too small, pt 7.5). They accepted the release anyways after my explanation. I changed my address now to pt. 9 which shows well on the release (I upload 1024px small side).
The reason I put in 'Belgium' (my country of residence) as jurisdiction is that in the very unlikely case of litigation, I don't want to travel to the US and I certainly don't want any case before a Filipino court.

Quote from: FD-amateur on November 22, 2009, 18:42

...On the Getty/iStock release (which I use now with site logo removed) ....

You can still use this for Dreamstime? Mine got rejected.

Really? Mine got all accepted. What was the remark?

as a matter of fact they're already collections with cats, dogs, and flowers. there's no way they can compete with RM on this...

Are the snapshots, cats, dog and flowers so much better then on RM? Do they surf the whitewater on a surf plank? As long as it isn't the creature of Bichon on SS, a dog is a dog.

If they don't, then they will go back to being libraries full of flowers, cats, and travel snapshots.

My best selling photos are travel snapshots. Things went wrong when I bought lightboxes. 

I came from the macro market, and also have 50k photos at alamy, since 7-8 years.

Do you ever sleep? 

I hope Iceland comes out of this soon, it's such an awesome place.

I know a couple of people that lost a lot by their Kauphting and Icesave fraud. We would disagree they are so "awesome".

AGE sold the image, AGE should be accountable in case of ANY issues, period.

I was, of course, just teasing you. But as you mention, some RM agencies at least seem still to live in the stone age. Micro-RF at least has its clearances things right, or they would out of business soon. And what to say about the buyer? There still seems to be a lot of ignorance with (occasional?) buyers. (I just suppose the image on AGE was marked as editorial). For instance the Crystalgraphics-Bigstock case a few years back, where we found our images for 70$ on CG, when they were less than 1/10th of that price on BS. A simple Google search could have saved they buyers a lot of money.

Cool your jets. The Gallery is searchable, look at the bottom and there is a search box.

I looked for "man" and "male" there and it returned nothing, nada, wala, nichts, de rien, niks. Don't let that spoil your fun! Just trying to be helpful if you're interested in sales. For now, I just keep looking on DT to buy ;-). Time = money. Gnite.

So it's not clear who's to blame here, if AGE or another small RM agency that in the meantime has been sold or went bankrupt.

Well this a very good reason for any buyer not to buy from macro, that seems to be very sloppy with releases and clearances.
Micro is very strict about all this, and most important micro sites even offer a warranty. So why do people still buy from the dinosaur macros at overrated prices? Ignorance. Let this be a lesson. ;-)

They also have a referral program. Maybe this is cheeky, but here is mine!

I don't care about your hagiographic referral link and whether or not you started uploading. I want an answer on the copyright transfer issue.
Since there is none after 24hrs, I guess they won't address the issue properly. If anybody wants to upload, fine. Not me.