Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on July 23, 2019, 18:58

This is why you have business insurance.  My insurer went to bat for me and defended me against a model when a buyer used an image against the license terms.

Would you mind sharing in more detail? I'm curious about what happened. I've had past models discover that a buyer had misused an photo of him and put it on a adult adultery website, even though he was fully clothed. I asked iStock about it and they said it was within the terms of the license. This was probably 8 years ago. I sent an email to the adultery website and heard nothing back. I told the model I tried to get them to take it off but had no success. He just lived with it and moved on.

This wasn't a shadowy European site or something.  It was a Fortune 500 company that was easy to (legally) go after.  I was just incidental.

However... The poster referred to images inside the plane of the staff and images through the window. Unless you were give permission to take and sell images on the private property of the airline, then you have no legal right to place the images for sale under any sort of license. You can't sell an editorial license for an image that you didn't have permission to take in the first place.

That's incorrect.

�you will receive a fee of between $ 50 and $ 300 or more for each photo shoot completed.�

No no no no no.

Yes.

"We don't have a lot of money to pay lawyer for petty issue (example: one or two image infringement at Etsy), but if a lot of us use the same lawyer, he or she could earn some good earnings."

They'd make it up in volume?

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Quote from: dcwcreations on July 04, 2019, 06:03

A very close friend of mine who also did stock photography passed last year. we used each other as models and did hundreds of shoots together. We often talked about long after were gone our photos will still be out there somewhere so it's what we left to the worl. Our mark if you will. I think it's an honor and a tribute to leave them on there.

...you are profiting from someone else�s tragedy.

I can't agree.  You are profiting from their work, and arguably from their life.  But the tragedy has nothing to do with your work together or any profit you may continue to derive from it.  Unless you somehow benefit from the fact or details of your death, it's no different than enjoying the work of any performer who has died.

Feel however you feel, but you're under no obligation, moral or otherwise, to give up work you paid for because your collaborator is no longer around.

You have pulled out a small piece of my post and now it�s out of context.

No, it had the same meaning in the full passage.  You�re not �profiting from tragedy� at all.

As I guessed, worst since 2/2013.

Newsflash.  I broke $35.  I'm at $35.35 .  That's about 8% of what I made only a year ago.

They must be in bad straits.  I just sent an email to [email protected] and got this auto-reply: Thanks for your message.
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Interesting, but that sort of setup would seem to be against the agency terms.

SS "You must own or control the copyright to all content you submit to Shutterstock. This means that you cannot submit work obtained from other sources (e.g., online image search results or websites), or incorporate such work into your content submissions, unless you have permission to do so."

DT "Each Contributor that contributes to our site and community is entirely responsible for the materials he/she uploads. By uploading files you agree to hold all copyrights for the image and to have previously obtained a model release from each person included in your picture."

etc.

June of last year, I made $450 on Canva.  This month, I'll be lucky if I break $35.  That's how far and how fast they've collapsed.

�i have the opportunity to submit to addictive stock and maybe sell indirectly there�

All of their content is company owned. No distribution.

I think he'd be ok though.  Stockpiling for 6 months while paying, and then putting them all online for the project would be fine.

They might have started using them, but they haven't started paying them.  I'm guessing they have to wait for the month to end so they can do all the calculations and nonsense.  Or they're still working on May.  Who knows?