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The terms in this deal - Wow - Just Wow.  Getty thinks this will work?  Thinks the contributor agreement gives them the authority to license our work this way?  Thinks people will stick around for this?  wow...

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Sorry to hear it. 

Scott Kelby's books are the best for navigating your situation if you have a copy or you can run out to a bookstore. 

Try this link.  http://digital-photography-school.com/where-are-my-lightroom-files which will hopefully answer your question.

Did not watch this, but expect it would cover it. 

Lightroom 3.x and 4.x - backing up and managing catalogs & presets

Or

Lightroom 3: Backup Import Catalog

Obviously not everyone has voted for December results yet, but it is pretty striking that Istock is below FT for the month at all.  Is it just that people are voting before the partner program results are in or are people really seeing their total IS income dropping below their FT earnings?

http://www.microstockgroup.com/index.php?page=PollResults

Note that Istock is still shown above FT on the right hand column poll results because Leaf uses a moving average, not just the results from the past month.

Mighty generous of them   

Quote from: Freedom on December 08, 2012, 05:07

I feel Rebecca is just the messenger. She is testing the water for her bosses. I wonder what is cooking for the new year.

Good possibility. The new owners may have finally looked under the hood of what they just bought and told her to fix the mess they just found. They thought they bought a vintage Ferrari they could flip for a profit and found out it's a bondo'd kit car.

Perception goes a long way toward success. Look at Apple.

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You could well be right Paulie.  I can imagine somebody at Carlyle taking a closer look at what is going on at Istock and saying W-T-F.  It sure does smack as desperation. 

They also put in categories for me when I uploaded my initial batch.  Greatly appricated.

It has been a while since I updated yet there are very few updates to add.

11-16-12 - Added Caf� Press to Big Stock
11-16-12 - Added Emma to Big Stock
11-16-12 - Added Alamy to Yaymicro
11-16-12 - Added Datacraft to Yaymicro
11-16-12 - Added Photokore to Yaymicro
11-16-12 - Added Age Fotostock to Zoonar
11-16-12 - Added Agefotostock/Kalium/Potassium to Veer
11-16-12 - Removed Mauritius Images from Zoonar
11-16-12 - Removed Photolibrary from Zoonar

Quote from: Sadstock on November 14, 2012, 13:57

The concern I have is that even if the manufacturer lose the suit in Denmark they could file suit in Japan, South Korea, Australia, Brazil, USA, Canada and just about anywhere else.  Each country has different laws and effectively the manufacturer only needs to win in one jurisdiction to force the micros, because of their license everywhere model, to remove all images with this company's glasses.

Is there actually an issue ? There are plenty of places to source rights issue free spectacle frames to use as props.

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I'm talking about Yuri's existing library of images not future shoots.  All the cost of producing/editing/keywording/uploading these images has already been incurred.   No further work is needed in order for these images to continue to produce revenue for Yuri's operation for some time to come.  (of course these images have a lifespan as well).  If Yuri loses in court, he might have to take down these images and/or pay damages for the images he has already licensed.  Who knows how much this might cost him.  Instead if he can pay a one-time licensing/extortion fee, he can continue to use the images and not face the uncertainty of a court decision. 

50 is a pretty good rule of thumb as an upper limit.  Note that a number of sites limit the length  of titles so I try not to go over 40 characters. 

Quote from: RapidEye on October 24, 2012, 01:00

Quote from: jsnover on October 23, 2012, 19:15

One of my many musings about what on earth Getty/Carlyle are up to is that they're trying to drive traffic to Getty and Thinkstock.

Yes, what on earth indeed? One wild thought I've had is that perhaps a Thinkstock subscription is worth more to Getty than we think. Perhaps the average TS subscriber spends as much per year as the average buyer of iStock credits does, while the cost of payouts to suppliers is very much smaller, especially considering that most subscriptions must be far from fully utilised.

Another musing of mine is that perhaps it's just retrograde old-school thinking at Getty. Getty managers must have loathed iStock for the six years it was the upstart eating away at their high-value sales. So now, rather than rejoice at having bought the top brand in stock imagery, they prefer to use iStock's traffic as a means of driving sales back to Getty (sigh of relief) and also down to a bargain-basement subscription site that their MBAs have somehow convinced themselves is the future of microstock.

I can imagine some suit standing up in front of a whiteboard to explain that the Getty group needed to achieve more clear-cut market segmentation, what with Getty RF being all muddied together with iStockphoto.

Alternatively, and just as (im)plausibly, the long-term plan is to merge Getty RF and iStockphoto under the Getty brand. So we will see more Getty images moving to iStock and iStock images moving to Getty (technology failures aside). Getty RF then becomes the midstock marketplace while Getty RM continues at the top end and Thinkstock mops up the cheap-n-cheerful market.

In fact, the price convergence between Getty RF (falling) and iStockphoto's upper tiers (rising) could well have been designed to facilitate just such a repositioning.

Yes it sounds like getty is force feeding customers and contributors gettys secret sauce.  It reminds me what anheuser busch did when they bought rolling rock brewery.  They shut down the brewery with special glass stills and moved to production to a janky budwiser plant not even located in the same sate.  Yet they still sell the same branded product.

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I think the other long term goal of getty is to cut the percentage they pay to contributors even more on Istock through the RC shell game. 

While my income from Istock in 2012 is on track to be similar to 2011, there has been a huge shift within that number to income from thinkstock rather than from IS.  If that trend continues, I doubt I will make enough RCs in 2013 to stay at the 17% level in 2014.  I imagine many other indies will be in the same boat. 

If they are doing so bad as some people claim, how come the graph on the "polls" section on this site shows they IS's performance is trending more or less as SS's and even better then the other agencies ?
This doesn't make much sense.

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While there are some similarities in the two graphs there are also significant differences.  I don't know what the units are on the left side of the graph but in March it looks like IS is at roughly 60 and SS is at roughly 85, a difference of about 25 units.  However the September graph shows IS at about 65 and SS at maybe 115, a difference of about 50 units.  100% more units of difference (whatever that means in dollar value) is significant.