The thing to remember is that sometimes a custom license can offer fewer rights than the broad, perpetual royalty free license does.

Clearly giving away more rights for less money is bad for contributors. But if they are doing what they said - which is crafting custom licenses for large customers - then it could be reasonable to see smaller amounts.

I have had some small LELs in the past. From their answer to one of my support tickets over an 18 cent royalty for an LEL, they said "The download is from a free trial package we offered to a special client under promotional usage. The package work like a subscription but the scope of usage is very limited. That is why the download is inserted under Limited License column."

Today I had an LEL for $5.333, so they are still doing other types of rights bundles, not just promotions.

In 2013, on another support ticket reply about an LEL amount, they said "We will certainly have the website to show the amount of credits for all LEL downloads soon." That clearly hasn't happened and it would be much better if they improved reporting to include that. We don't need to see the full license, but some description of what rights were granted and for how many credits seems very reasonable to me.

http://www.microstockgroup.com/123royaltyfree-com/new-limited-extended-license/

As the licenses vary, so do the prices and royalties to us. Only support can tell you what the buyer received for that particular license fee

You would think that there would be something simpler for contributors to view their earnings, but I don't know of anything either.

I'd like to see my earnings on each sale with a mark showing if the amount is cleared or not and the date on which the money was earned. Total that by month/year/date range.

Having additional reports with the total amount of the sale, royalty rate, distributor mega rate (if you are still opted in to that) with a running balance is fine as an additional report - with the download date as well as the sale date and cleared balance date if they'd like to be truly transparent.

I received e-mail this morning from 123rf and StockUnlimited (Tagged as "An Inmagine Company" even though they both are) titled "Creative needs sorted - for life!"

They have a deal - this week only - for unlimited downloads for life! Only $49 (reduced from $999)

I think they've been saying they have 600K images and vectors for ages, so I'm not sure about this "... we add thousands of new
images every week"

"You'll enjoy full access to over 600,000 quality stock photos,
vectors, clipart and other images... And we add thousands of new
images every week.

Don't worry about your content needs ever again! Just make this
one-time purchase now to enjoy unlimited downloads
for life. No catch"

But you have to hurry This is limited to the first 1,000 subscribers!

It's carnival barker yelling at its worst IMO

Got e-mail this morning asking if I'd like to re-enable my store on Marketplace as a customer wanted to license an image. I replied that if the royalty cut to 30% had gone into effect today as planned, then no, I wouldn't. I haven't heard anything more

Funny that I can't find his stuff on Shutterstock, but he does have a portfolio on Alamy with lots of the same vectors (plus some photos)

http://www.alamy.com/search/imageresults.aspx?pseudoid=%7b9F3F65DE-307E-44A2-86F7-3894A6F6DF36%7d&name=Nirot+Sriprasit&st=11&mode=0&comp=1

...DP hasn`t shown its nasty face yet. They even paid for uploads.

Are you referring to Deposit Photos or was that a typo? Deposit Photos has an abysmal track record of saying one thing and doing another. The Shotshop mess being a prime example, but the various schemes that offer people preferential search placement if they upload their portfolio (which is inherently a scam as they keep offering it and you can't have a preference for all the contributors you sell that line to) and cutting royalty rates while they raised prices.

That face looks pretty nasty to me

I replied in the other thread on this. Support emailed me back to say that the 1099 is for July through December 2015, not the whole year. And in addition to the shorter period, even for that period the amount was wrong.

I already filed my return based on the correct amount of earnings. As this erroneous form is less, it won't cause a problem for you

jo ann, your photos will be there, only your first 25 will be displayed and for sale to a buyer. check what you see when you log out and look at your portfolio

I checked just now, and not logged in I can see images in search and then when I select one and then click on my name, all the images are displayed. I haven't tried to buy anything, so possibly I wouldn't be able to.

I'm guessing they've fallen behind on the updates that would remove items from search and that it will happen at some point.

I'm a US citizen residing in the US. There should be no withholding at all (they've had my W9 since 2005 or whenever they first asked for it)

I received e-mail from them today saying they had an updated 1099 for me in the tax center.

I'm a US citizen living in the US and so there was no 1042-2

However my name on the updated form was "J" - nothing else - and the amount was less than half the total earnings for 2015. Not to mention those forms are to be sent out by the end of January - my return is already filed.

As the amount is less vs. more it won't cause any problems, but as they are apparently unable to fill the form out correctly, it's a crapshoot as to what number ends up there.

I wrote to support telling them it was wrong and that they need to re-issue it with the correct name and amount.

Edited to add that support replied. They said that Withholding tax was implemented July 1st 2015 so the 1099 covers only July through Dec 2015. Although the number is still wrong (according to them; I didn't add it up). They say they've notified the relevant departments.

The idea that I've been earning from them the entire tax year and  yet they issue a 1099 for just part because of some internal bureaucracy of theirs seems wrong. But as it doesn't make any difference to my tax return, I'm not going to pursue it further.

Not the greatest headline. What the photographer is doing is providing a list of his costs and asking buyers to pay what they think it's worth. People are paying him more than the cost apparently - and he mentioned some were paying more than he would have asked.

...Possibly won't rejoin FAA when my payment becomes due next Jan.

I didn't this January. I got some message that they'd remove all but the first 25 images, but it hasn't yet happened...