Frustrating.

At least my images in the Hemera Collection are still online at Thinkstock.  Hope they get this fixed soon.

Is anyone having problems logging in at StockXpert?  When I click the login button, the page simply refreshes and doesn't take me to my account.  I sent a ticket to support...we'll see how many months it takes for a response.   

I'm willing to bet they purchased your photo from one of the partner program sites that uses "Public Domain" in its domain name, like http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/.  There's a few of them out there.

Quote from: lisafx on September 07, 2013, 11:17

I'm curious - how can you request payouts from a site that no longer exists? 

I thought StockXpert was just an outlet for Thinkstock royalties at this point, and that they were paid monthly, like they are on IS. 

Does StockXpert still sell images?

that is what Karin is talking about, collecting at StockXpert, we discussed this many times here, log into StockXpert and you might find a good surprise!

Yeh...StockXpert basically acts as a payment portal now.

Received my payment yesterday, too, so all is good.

StockXpert is late paying me.  Just wondering if anyone has gotten paid yet.

Quote from: Karimala on January 14, 2013, 03:43

After spending months researching the possibility of a legal case and contacting numerous attorneys, I found an artist's representation/copyright attorney in California who believed in my research enough to be willing to investigate a class action lawsuit against Getty/IS on contingency (which is nearly impossible to find due to budget cuts impacting the entire court system, I'm told).  I asked Leaf to set up a private forum for the artists whose images were involved to discuss a class action lawsuit, but the attorney advised that we don't discuss these issues on the internet (private or public), so we decided to abandon the forum.  A further lack of interest from the 30 or so artists I privately contacted about the case eventually led me to abandon the entire project.

The attorney is still interested in helping us.

I can't say anything more on his advice (which is why I rarely post about it), other than we need 30-40 artists who are willing to sign on to a class action lawsuit.  These artists MUST have common criteria to meet class action status beyond just being artists.  All 30-40 artists must either have registered their copyrights or have not registered their copyrights...it can't be a mixture of the two.  And all must have the same issue. 

PM me only if you're willing to go the distance.

This is great Karimala!  I don't have images in the program, but if any of mine are added I will definitely get in touch about this. 

I really hope people who are affected by this will follow up with you.  A contingency basis means there's nothing to lose.  Please step up and protect yourselves legally!  If you don't do it now then it might be too late.

Exactly.  If we can get enough people and can file a lawsuit, it will force an audit, which absolutely needs to happen.

After spending months researching the possibility of a legal case and contacting numerous attorneys, I found an artist's representation/copyright attorney in California who believed in my research enough to be willing to investigate a class action lawsuit against Getty/IS on contingency (which is nearly impossible to find due to budget cuts impacting the entire court system, I'm told).  I asked Leaf to set up a private forum for the artists whose images were involved to discuss a class action lawsuit, but the attorney advised that we don't discuss these issues on the internet (private or public), so we decided to abandon the forum.  A further lack of interest from the 30 or so artists I privately contacted about the case eventually led me to abandon the entire project.

The attorney is still interested in helping us.

I can't say anything more on his advice (which is why I rarely post about it), other than we need 30-40 artists who are willing to sign on to a class action lawsuit.  These artists MUST have common criteria to meet class action status beyond just being artists.  All 30-40 artists must either have registered their copyrights or have not registered their copyrights...it can't be a mixture of the two.  And all must have the same issue. 

PM me only if you're willing to go the distance. 

9) Money won't make you happy!

That one...right there!

PS...Best signature ever, Rubyroo!

Thanks,

But that might be wrong. There is a market for those things. Warzones, fallen angels and not to mention gothic claire obscure art, of which the net is full.
Horror sells.
However, it is the reviewer who decides and the picture may have been lousy.
Once I had a picture of a dead (and shot to pieces) fox, rejected all over  the agencies, aestetics and such. SS took it, it didnt sell much though I thought it was a suitable for animal wellfare and the like.

I thought it was best suited for RM, which is where I sent a photo of blood in the street from a dead animal.

Quote from: Karimala on December 20, 2012, 16:06

Quote from: JPSDK on December 20, 2012, 13:08

wings of a dead swan, to a wedding dress designer.
500 dollars.

Did you ever upload that photo to the micros?  Because on my very first day at LuckyOliver, I reviewed a photo of bloody, formerly white wings on grass...and nearly wanted to throw up.  LOL

No I never photographed the wings. Also I prepared and dried them and everything, so they were nice and pure like angle wings.
+ when I upload disgusting things, I usually warn the reviewer with a note, like when I uploaded this tongue, with a notice of "Beware of graphic content":

Good idea!  I know I would have appreciated a warning!  LOL  I always wondered who on earth would photograph wings that had been literally ripped off a bird and then pose them.  Eww.     I didn't accept it, because the content was too graphic and disturbing.

Someone at IS bought a print of a wrinkled brown paper bag background.  God only knows why!   

And who knew two photos of black mold on shower tile would turn into best sellers?  They have sold nearly everyday, several times a day, for over two years.  I guess it's because there aren't many like it.

My views also dropped in exactly the same period! But I know exactly why this happened! It didn't have any effect on my FL earnings.
The sudden drop happened when they introduced the automatic zoom when you hover over the images. So nowadays buyers can see an enlarged image when hovering over the thumbnails. Before august 2011 they had to click on the image to see it.

My earnings on FL are still rising they are now 3 times the amount of last year and the year before I also had an increase of 300%

Ahhhh...that makes sense!  However, it still doesn't explain my incredible drop in earnings during the same time period.