Quote from: arquiplay77 on March 08, 2011, 16:58

I didn�t even know this site Inmagine, i went to check and found some images of mine with no information about the author (me).

Inmagine owns 123RF, so if you contribute to 123RF then that would explain why Inmagine has your images.  Here is a blog from Alex at 123RF explaining the program, instituted in 2009.

http://www.123rf.com/blog/blog.php?idblog=b1000087

I have always found this program to be interesting, in that it allows for a much higher sales price and a 50% commission.  However I have never had a sale through this program.  It could be my images were not exported to Inmagine after I rejoined 123RF last October.

Quote from: tubed on March 01, 2011, 00:34

So a lot of people say that this is stupid it will never pass.. well read this, this will open your eyes.. don't talk bad about food industry in these 12 states, or you will be in big trouble.. doesn't matter if the product is cancer producing, or if the animals are mistreated, the big food guy's profit is all that matters..

http://advocacy.britannica.com/blog/advocacy/2009/11/burger-bashing-and-sirloin-slander-food-disparagement-laws-in-the-united-states/

Ah, laws that prevent wackos from writing unscientific lies and scaring people to death over false claims? Since so much of this came from Alar, which was supposed to cause cancer in children and devastated the apple industry. What's the truth? Alar does nothing harmful. Most of us are too old to remember the Cranberry scare of the 50s where someone claimed that they caused cancer, right before Thanksgiving. It wasn't true but the industry suffered for years. So if you are fighting for the right for authors to lie, to sell sensationalism and fabricated facts, back to the days of yellow journalism, this is a perfect defense.

From the article: "It is worth noting that, had these laws been in force in earlier decades... Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (1962) would never have been published." Which I find not to be a negative since she did no research, wrote the book without any peer review or data and controlled studies. Just an idea and years later the myth of he untruths is still hailed. Anyone ever note how many humans die each year because of the ban of DDT, which was the thrust of Carsons book? People who die from malaria and other diseases that are carried by insects. But, we have safe robins, which weren't ever proven to be harmed by DDT. In fact DDT was banned based on rumor and conjecture and never proven to be harmful in the ways that Carson claimed.

Just a bit of history, that lies do hurt, and should not be protected. Anyone for the anti-vaccination crowd, based on a false publication? Anyone care that holistic diluted natural treatments are useless and people are being bilked into buying them, some neglecting traditional medications and dying as a result?

Talk about the gullible population!

Facts:

There are some 300 to 500 million reported cases of malaria each year, 90% occurring in Africa. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about two and a half million people die of the disease each year, again, mostly in Africa, the majority of them poor children. Indeed, malaria is the second leading cause of death in Africa (after AIDS) and the number one killer of children there (with about one child being lost to malaria every thirty seconds). Many medical historians believe malaria has killed more people than any other disease in history, including the Black Plague, and may have contributed to the collapse of the Roman Empire. Malaria was common in places as far north as Boston and England until the twentieth century. Two thirds of the world lived in malaria-ridden areas prior to the 1940s.

That devastation all but stopped during the time that DDT use was widespread, around 1950-1970. Indeed, the discovery that DDT could kill malarial mosquitoes earned Dr. Paul M�ller the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1948. DDT, a chemical pesticide synthesized by M�ller in the late 1930s, was initially used against houseflies, beetles, various farm pests, and typhus-carrying lice on the bodies of World War II soldiers and civilians. America and England soon became the major producers of the chemical, using it to fight malaria-carrying mosquitoes, especially in tropical regions.

In all, DDT has been conservatively credited with saving some 100 million lives.

Thanks for the great book Rachel. 100 million people have died since the DDT ban.

http://www.acsh.org/healthissues/newsID.442/healthissue_detail.asp

Quote from: gostwyck on February 28, 2011, 14:10

Quote from: sjlocke on February 28, 2011, 14:04

I don't have an issue with undercover reporting on abuses like that.  How else would we all know what is going on in the world if it is all hidden away?

Exactly. I think you might struggle to find a jury willing to convict someone who discovered something of public concern too. Enforcement would be another resource-heavy issue for anything other than the genuine serious cases.

great point. I didn't think of the social responsibility angle. and you're right, good luck enforcing it.

Quote from: fxegs on February 27, 2011, 04:37

Quote from: jsnover on February 27, 2011, 02:36

Perhaps it's a silly question, but why not just sell through Alamy directly? Although you have one more agency to upload to, you then get to keep all the royalty Alamy pays (60% is what I get - I think that's standard).

+1

Take care with partnerships. Sometimes if you accept one, you will not be able to contribute directly with the partner agency never. Read all the agreement before accepting it.

That`s only one side. The other is:

Agencies like Zoonar have no or not much rejections, we have a good search rank (especially at Alamy important) because we put in different photos with different licences and styles and we put the photos to 10-20 partners and you just have to work (keywording) once. We also did the work for essential keywords, the work for submitting, translating, and the work for additional informations (at alamy: how many people, kind of photo (cutout, photo, illustration) and so far). So if you don`t have much time or very many photos it CAN be much more efficient to use a distributor like zoonar. With 60% comission we are one of the best paying distributors on the market. We also do the german manual (!) translations for free, so you also will have sales at picturemaxx, DDP, Strandperle and other Zoonar-Partners. One handicap i have to admit is, that we need many time to put in photos into the all partner databases and search engines. But this is normal and not only Zoonars fault, because the partners need many time to release new photos. After 4-7 months photographers they use the whole partner network will have good earnings.

Quote from: disorderly on February 24, 2011, 11:16

It's not just you.  And given how well accepted images sell there, it's not worth worrying about.  I upload there as part of my mass upload, and figure whatever they accept has a (small) chance of earning something.  Gave up being bothered about their reviews a long time ago.

Totally gave up on this agency, for me at least its not worth it.

Quote from: borg on February 20, 2011, 04:47

Last month I have more sales than zooms!

Veeery unusual, for me of course!!!

Pseudonym          Your Sales   Your Views   Your Zooms   Your CTR (%)
Botastock images (898)    6         1,771              5                    0.28

My last sale had no search (that I could find), no views, no zooms. So much for the way those are counted.

Nice work if you get six a month out of under 1000 images.