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Messages - Mrblues101
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« on: December 02, 2020, 11:40 »
Shutterstock killed my motivation...But i still read messages here...sometimes.
Same here
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« on: November 18, 2020, 08:00 »
Public domain means some form that belongs to everyone and that anyone can use.
In publications as books, unless the laws of the country where it was published say otherwise, your book belongs to the public domain 70 years after the death of the author. It was 50 years, but Walt Disney pressured the US government to change this to 70 so as not to lose the rights to Winnie Pooh (true story).
During those 70 years your family (or those to whom you have sold the rights to your work) will continue to benefit from it.
You can also voluntarily place your book in the public domain, but I don't know how to do it.
If a book is in the public domain, you can do whatever you want with it, except say it is from your authorship. Think of Shakespeare's books, they will always be his work, but anyone can print and sell them, anyone can make a movie based on his story without paying any rights to anyone, and even modify the story in any way they want. The best example is Dickens's "Christmas Carol".
These laws apply to books and everything else, but with images I don't know how it works (i don't know the specific details).
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« on: November 14, 2020, 21:07 »
Edit: I just realize payment minimum is 100$ instead of 50$ so my advice will not work.
My advice... maybe illegal, maybe not... i don't know the legal status of what i am going to suggest...
Anyway... my advice, check payment rate per pic and ask a friend to buy some of your pics at DT... once you have your payout then you can give your friend the money back. By using this way you will not get a 43$ earining but maybe 20-25$... better that nothing.
But please, if you do this just check in deep what % you get per sale, i never understand this part in DT.
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« on: November 07, 2020, 12:36 »
Try Payoneer
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« on: November 05, 2020, 21:40 »
It depends on what you are doing with the editorial use image. Newspapers have stories with accompanying images on the same page as ads, so putting mixed content types in one place is not a problem.
If you are writing infomercial blog posts - in the style of a news or magazine story, but it's just a marketing/sales pitch - then stay away from editorial use only stock images.
Focus on the story the editorial use image is used with, not what else is on the same page or other parts of a blog, to decide if it's appropriate
Well, my project involves information on sports science, and I am looking to sell related info products, but the articles will be on neutral topics, not on products. (For this project many of the editorial photos look much more attractive, especially those during sporting events)
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« on: November 05, 2020, 18:40 »
I just realized that some blog posts I've been reading use SS images that are EDITORIAL ones ...
It is a proper use? May i use them for blog article, even if in same page i am promoting a commercial product / service ??
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« on: November 02, 2020, 17:25 »
How do those even get approved? Apparently they dont have out of focus rejections anymore. What a bunch of garbage. Im nippon freelancer journalist who loved to travelling around the world. in blurryness i found peace and the truth perspective.thanks for supports. Peace and truth ... and money off other peoples back! ... in blurriness? LOL
106 pages of that garbage.
Rules for thiefs are more permissive at SS...
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« on: October 16, 2020, 14:43 »
I'm getting a few Dreamstime "customer refund" emails lately. Anyone else? Is this some form of image abuse?
Me too, maybe three or four days ago...
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« on: October 05, 2020, 19:49 »
Thank you so much for your feedback, no i get the whole picture about this issue 
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« on: October 04, 2020, 14:55 »
I catch it.
Did i still need the property release if i totally photoshop the background of the pic??
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« on: October 04, 2020, 13:00 »
I keep working in this project, i just want to ask about take commercial photos inside someone else business. My model will sign the release papers, so no big issue now with it (this was my original question some weeks ago (link to original post: https://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/question-about-papers-to-fill-from-models/). I am worry about legal issues, my nightmare will be to finish and publish my book and get some claim for some possible mistake. I was planing to take the pics inside a gym, i am not the owner of the gym and i am worry about some kind of futuer claim for using someone else place; i totally don't know how it works. My question is: did i need some kind of paper or specific document to take and use these pics for commercial use??
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« on: September 23, 2020, 07:54 »
SS changes how i upload... reducing my number of upload per day to zero due to new stupid rates.
But even before that, when pandemic starts, as illustartor i was not able to produce more because my pre-pandemic rate of production already was as high as possible.
2015-2016 i can upload spending not full time and get a pretty decent income, but after that in order to get a decent incoming i need to spend more and more time on illustrations; they really graduallty mades me to work full time to them without being able to realize about it...
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« on: September 22, 2020, 15:22 »
Thanks for answers. I will try to reply to all.
I have friends from many countries in the world (I travel a lot) and so many people told me that they saw this ad. More-less we are similar age, so target could be done by age.
In the past I sold few times myself counting Chinese money (just the money, not my face) and thought I could sell this one as well.
I was just surprised how much money I got when I exchanged 100$ in Uzbekistan and did this photo first for Facebook and Instagram and later I uploaded it on Shutterstock. Originally it wasn't meant to be sold as stock photography, but I was like, why not.
Edit just to add an extra thought: Murphy's law for MS: If you upload a photo of yourself in a certain context, that photo will be used in the worst possible representation of that context.
I still remember that gay couple who agreed to be a model for MS photos with their adopted son and that photo was used in a campaign against gay marriage.
I have another photo I probably shouldn't sell, but I have few sales already. Can't even imagine in what context it will be used. Probably about "stop animal abuse" I was just playing with goose, not really holding her neck, just pretending to.
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/man-pretending-choke-goose-nature-bali-570984529
Btw. my grandmother became a meme TWICE. People just used her picture for funny memes instead what it was meant to be used for. I never told her about that. Don't even know how I would explain her
I must say that in South American countries to "hang the goose" is a colloquial way of referring to masturbation. LOL So if you want to avoid photos of youself in strange contexts maybe you should delete that one too LOL
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« on: September 21, 2020, 17:34 »
Probably he paid for general facebook ads and your friends just saw it.
If he hacked into the system to send this advertisement to your friends, he is really wasting his hacking skills.
Facebook allows you to send ads to specific list of people but you need the list of mails (not the list of facebook profiles links or account number) in order to send to that people.
Edit just to add an extra thought: Murphy's law for MS: If you upload a photo of yourself in a certain context, that photo will be used in the worst possible representation of that context.
I still remember that gay couple who agreed to be a model for MS photos with their adopted son and that photo was used in a campaign against gay marriage.
And by the way; congratulations on making so much Uzbekistani money investing in amazon stocks.
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« on: August 24, 2020, 08:01 »
Thank you for your advice Jo Ann.
If i use the same Getty contract papers everything is ok? Is there is no thing like "contract copyright inflingement" by using them papers??
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« on: August 23, 2020, 15:04 »
You're looking for a commercial model release. The document permits you to use the model's likeness in your projects. There are a bunch of samples out there. I use a slightly modified version of a release provided by Getty Images. It has been accepted by all the microstock agencies I've used it with, and spells out how the model's likeness may be used. It won't keep a particularly troublesome model from making noise, but should keep you away from any legal action.
Thank you for your reply, i think i can even found it in several languages. I've always been curious about something; these sample model release are actually not associated to any photo, i mean, there is no sample of the photo you are talking about when the model sign it. How to know which batch of photos these papers belong to?
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« on: August 23, 2020, 14:41 »
This is actually not a MS question, so maybe wrong forum... anyway...
As i quit from SS, my incoming in MS world just down to almost zero. I'm just getting between 1 to 3 dollars with my Dreamstime account.
I never upload pictures (i am vector designer), i still have no camera but i will get one as soon as posible; but not to upload to MS but to use in my new projet that is a blog where i will try to do some niche marketing related to my main profession.
I will use some pictures of some models to use in some ebooks, printed books and blog articles, but i am worry about making some mistake and get future legal issues because of the improper use of someone image.
I have always worked ethically and I will not use someone's image without authorization, but to fill the proper papers is pretty important, i think.
So, as this forum collects a lot of experience in the field of photography, I want to ask: What papers should I have the models sign to ensure the proper use of these images?
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« on: August 08, 2020, 22:54 »
I don't care about the review method they use... but i care about the 0.10 issue
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« on: August 04, 2020, 12:07 »
They move from a highly immoral action (enforce the new payment plan without prudent notice) to an illegal action (to sell content no longer authorized for sale by the author).
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« on: July 31, 2020, 19:12 »
We all knew that.
We didn't knew that, we just strongly suspected about that.
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« on: July 16, 2020, 20:34 »
This week the weekly amount of images uploaded have a dramatic reduction from almost 900k to 578,128
That's sadly because they had a bug where new approved images would not show up starting Saturday or even Friday and the problem was fixed yesterday, on Tuesday, so new images were added to the database for 4-5 days, even though new images were submitted. So obviously not having new images in the database for more than half a week is having an impact on the number. It's not because of less images having been submitted.
I see now 
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« on: July 14, 2020, 16:13 »
This week the weekly amount of images uploaded have a dramatic reduction from almost 900k to 578,128
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« on: June 28, 2020, 22:32 »
Microeconomics was the course that more change my mind. By studying it i discover a lot of amazing things an a new way to see the money, work and business.
Based in microeconomic principles: people will not upload any more content if they could made more money inversting them time in something else.
Probably for most of us this new payment rate means that... stop producing and doing something else or uploading to other agencies.
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« on: June 27, 2020, 15:15 »
Update:
June 23 - 320.955.776 images, 921.692 new images per week
June 26 - 321.204.674 images, 886.209 new images per week (updated)
Images on SS are growing but people is uploading less and less...
Yes, as you can (not) see here
http://shuttercounter.ddns.net
Im trying to keep track of the numbers that SS shows in the bottom of the page
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« on: June 26, 2020, 18:34 »
Update:
June 23 - 320.955.776 images, 921.692 new images per week
June 26 - 321.204.674 images, 886.209 new images per week (updated)
Images on SS are growing but people is uploading less and less...
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