Quote from: Devotio777 on November 20, 2022, 11:03

Till recently I was not thinking about stock photography and taxes, because I didnt withdraw any money and my income was low,
this is now changing a bit, and I want to prevent any bad surprises in the future.

make sure you understand when money is taxable in your jurisdiction.  Not withdrawing might not mean it's not taxable.  Check between earned VS paid VS vested

Quote from: Wilm on October 22, 2022, 08:47

Quote from: ouatedeP on October 21, 2022, 23:37

Quote from: Wilm on October 21, 2022, 22:55
What's going on??

Getty sent me $1.22???

What???

Did any of you get your payment too? And are the numbers not right there either?

It's bad enough I had the worst month ever there. But they still don't have to screw me!!! Where is my money? I never had that before!

explanation


ADAGP Collective Licensing Payback 2022 September

Oh, thank you, it actually says that - I didn't pay attention to that. Then the correct payment will probably still come.

Or is there also a minimum payout amount at Getty that has to be over $100?

e-mail actually cam After the payment, so there was no way of knowing when the notice from Paypall arrived for me.

Quote from: Wilm on October 21, 2022, 22:55
What's going on??

Getty sent me $1.22???

What???

Did any of you get your payment too? And are the numbers not right there either?

It's bad enough I had the worst month ever there. But they still don't have to screw me!!! Where is my money? I never had that before!

explanation


ADAGP Collective Licensing Payback 2022 September

Quote from: Wilm on October 21, 2022, 22:55
What's going on??

Getty sent me $1.22???

What???

Did any of you get your payment too? And are the numbers not right there either?

It's bad enough I had the worst month ever there. But they still don't have to screw me!!! Where is my money? I never had that before!

i received a payment that i was not expecting, having not reached $100 last month.   And my ESP has no adjustment for the amount, so no idea what it's about

Quote from: cascoly on October 06, 2022, 23:56

Quote from: alan b traehern on October 06, 2022, 14:06...

If the extended keywords, or complex description are important and the image shows something specific, they are necessary and good. If someone just adds close words and similar meaning words, you're wasting time with words that buyers don't use to find image. If you were searching for your image, what words would you use to find it? If you were describing your image to someone else, what words would you use. That's what good keywords are.

good keywords allow someone who DOESN'T think like you to find & buy your work. (that's why agency claims of LCV were absurd)

a common case would be someone who doesn't care whether a spider is an insect or not - they just want a scary or dangerous or venomous 'insect'

also need to consider maximising chances word will be properly translated in other language searches,

also this only seem to happen to RF image with Alamy, so maybe only upload RM there

Quote from: Julied83 on September 24, 2022, 11:45
Wow I can opt-out again only in APRIL 

they have allowed people to out opt early if you write

Quote from: Roscoe on September 14, 2022, 09:51

Quote from: Firn on September 14, 2022, 06:04

Quote from: Dhav on September 13, 2022, 22:59
These are current news editorial images, yet the whole batch have been rejected for not meeting editorial guidelines.

Adobe does not accept current news editorial image, they only accept illustrative editorials or their very own definition of it I don't understand half of the time.

Me neither. I would say that Illustrative Editorial is defined by content where a brand is the main subject of the shot.

This is confirmed by rejections of architecture which I upload as Editorial, or cityscapes which I upload as editorial due to visible brands and logo's.
Yet, I've had images rejected due to illustrative editorial issues where the brand is the main focus of the shot, e.g. a storefront while some others were accepted.

Same with the definition of recognizable people. Street shots with groups of people in it are often rejected, but I had some accepted too, mainly when shot from the back.

I guess the definition is not clear to all reviewers either.

same here, and on the other hand i had a few clearly News item signs that i uploaded by mistake that were accepted and sold

Quote from: Findura on August 21, 2022, 09:57
A strange one.
Just like a suspected criminal is questioned in crime movies, who is not supposed to recognize from the question what the strategy of the criminal investigators is.

wouldn't they lock the account of someone the suspect of doing something in breach of the agreement?  questions about it would obviously be in that form....

Quote from: Alamy on July 05, 2022, 14:37

Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on July 03, 2022, 04:59
There are comments in the Alamy forum that this is a bug - an obsolete storage program that  surfaced when they made the changes for the new 20% royalty rate July 1. Several people say they reported it, but perhaps the more reports the better?

Sent from my Pixel 5 using Tapatalk

Yes, this was a bug which has now been corrected. We don't charge submission or storage fees - this is an obsolete bit of code from many many years ago.

Apologies for any confusion this caused.

how was it reinvoked?  Why the sudden flury of issues on July 1, 2022? 

Quote from: Anyka on May 18, 2022, 12:40

No, there is not even a HINT in the direction of lesbian kissing or pedofile behaviour AT ALL.
Oh, and both people in the pictures are fully dressed.

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i understand paedophilia, but why . would you think lesbianism would break internet rule?  i guess systemic homophobia is a thing.   

Quote from: Minsc on May 10, 2022, 22:27
Thanks to the incompetent idiots in charge, we're on our way to a recession.

I anticipate that many companies with either start downgrading or cancelling their microstock accounts from sites like SS and AS.

My SS sales has dipped in the last few weeks. Less big sales and less daily downloads.

Just brace yourselves for what's to come and stop supporting people who are economically illiterate.

totally misleading everyone knows this is the Ardern recession....  or is it the Trudeau recession...  was told clearly it was the Macron recession

Quote from: grace on May 08, 2022, 12:29
most of my photos are shoot outdoor with good lighting, and all the photos accepted by other agency except SS.

so focus on other agency then. 

Quote from: MatHayward on April 29, 2022, 15:43

Quote from: ouatedeP on April 29, 2022, 12:08

Quote from: MatHayward on April 11, 2022, 17:27
Uncle Pete says "It does say ...current events and newsworthy topics. This type of content often features images of real brands and products — like signs on buildings, soda cans, computers, and cars — to convey a story.
It doesn't say, just taking photos of something and calling it Illustrative Editorial."

In my opinion, Uncle Pete hit the nail on the head with this one. Just because you don't have the right to sell an image for commercial use, does not put it into the Illustrative Editorial category. There needs to be a purpose behind the image. The OP posted an image of what in my opinion, appear to be generic homes. Could they be approved for the commercial collection? Possibly. That's up to the moderation team reviewing the file. In my opinion, they homes are generic enough to be accepted for commercial use but that is irrelevant to this conversation. What specifically, would qualify those houses for illustrative editorial? Is there any significance, or mainstream relevance that a potential customer would want to purchase a license to use the image to illustrate their editorial article? Can you imagine someone buying a license to illustrate an article talking about those specific houses? Did something historic happen there? Does someone famous live there? Is it a poorly marked business of some kind? There needs to be a specific story here and I'm not seeing it. No branding, no significant landmark that I can identify. I hear from contributors all the time trying to find a way to submit non-illustrative, editorial content to Adobe Stock. It's not happening any time in the forseeable future so I would encourage you to focus on shooting branded items that specifically meet the Illustrative Editorial requirements.

Thank you,

Mat Hayward

P.S. Take the "Mat" out of the Batman logo and you've got an Illustrative Editorial asset ready to be submitted Uncle Pete.

i understanding the branding part of Illustrative Editorial niche.  What i might need clarification is how far is the newsworthy part of interest.  Are pure news images, without identifiable people of interest?  Let's say a close up of  "End War in Ukraine" sign from a protest, or a car crash?

No. Those examples are not representative of the intent of the Illustrative Editorial collection. If there is truly no recognizable people or property, they may be eligible for the commercial collection. Customers that download content from the commercial collection are allowed to use the assets for editorial purposes.

-Mat Hayward

which is why i question using "newsworthy" in the definition.   These are all example of News worthy images. 

Quote from: MatHayward on April 11, 2022, 17:27
Uncle Pete says "It does say ...current events and newsworthy topics. This type of content often features images of real brands and products — like signs on buildings, soda cans, computers, and cars — to convey a story.
It doesn't say, just taking photos of something and calling it Illustrative Editorial."

In my opinion, Uncle Pete hit the nail on the head with this one. Just because you don't have the right to sell an image for commercial use, does not put it into the Illustrative Editorial category. There needs to be a purpose behind the image. The OP posted an image of what in my opinion, appear to be generic homes. Could they be approved for the commercial collection? Possibly. That's up to the moderation team reviewing the file. In my opinion, they homes are generic enough to be accepted for commercial use but that is irrelevant to this conversation. What specifically, would qualify those houses for illustrative editorial? Is there any significance, or mainstream relevance that a potential customer would want to purchase a license to use the image to illustrate their editorial article? Can you imagine someone buying a license to illustrate an article talking about those specific houses? Did something historic happen there? Does someone famous live there? Is it a poorly marked business of some kind? There needs to be a specific story here and I'm not seeing it. No branding, no significant landmark that I can identify. I hear from contributors all the time trying to find a way to submit non-illustrative, editorial content to Adobe Stock. It's not happening any time in the forseeable future so I would encourage you to focus on shooting branded items that specifically meet the Illustrative Editorial requirements.

Thank you,

Mat Hayward

P.S. Take the "Mat" out of the Batman logo and you've got an Illustrative Editorial asset ready to be submitted Uncle Pete.

i understanding the branding part of Illustrative Editorial niche.  What i might need clarification is how far is the newsworthy part of interest.  Are pure news images, without identifiable people of interest?  Let's say a close up of  "End War in Ukraine" sign from a protest, or a car crash?

Quote from: tätarätä on April 27, 2022, 16:51
For an abo microstock agency i can't see any reason to take stolen images seriously.
These images (work) could be also available at free images site.
So what ?

because it makes the licence nul and void, and exposes the clients to potential legal hassle, and cost if the have to pull stuff from production.

Quote from: H2O on April 20, 2022, 10:26

Quote from: cascoly on April 20, 2022, 01:14

Quote from: H2O on April 19, 2022, 23:45...

The only conclusion I can come to, is they are CROOKS.

just shows how limited your judgment is, that you automatically assume they're crooks - and then start another thread with the same silly conclusion.

As just one example, about eight years ago I had a lot of sales of logos that I had designed, everyday they would sell, many times more than once.

Then without any warning they deleted all of my logo's and everyone else who was selling logo designs, what they had done is, they had bought literally thousands of logo's and would only sell their own.

Every logo that was theirs was completely and utterly rubbish, they were beyond amateurish, after about a year they allowed logo's to be uploaded again, needless to say they had killed this market.

The only reason that I stayed on the site was because I used to get a payout every month; over the last few years this along with the commission rate cuts has changed to every other month.

so you Chose to kept being represented by a company  that you considered Crooks?

issue will be if infringer don't know which agency they actually stole image from.  If they stole it from a licensed use, they probably don't know the origin.  If they pay they will now have a licence, but what makes it valid?

Legit client downloads image available across all MS from SS
Organisation "steals" image and makes a use it
DT comes in, says do you have a license?  No, bad bad person, here we can issue you one.

OK fine, i'll be honest, here is money.

Is this valid license?  What if SS gets in game later, and has a way of knowing it was Their original download that was stolen....

Quote from: Firn on March 29, 2022, 07:51
I am 99% sure I opted out of sales from China last April (don't know where to look it up as I can never find these settings in my account and have to rely on someone giving me a link) and still got a lot of 0.15 cent sales in December from China.

December dump was speculated for 12 months, so sale may have been prior to opt-out

Quote from: Firn on March 25, 2022, 09:35

However, my personal opinion is that microstock just doesn't earn enough to justify the extra time it would take to create different sets of keywords for the same image for every agencies, even if I fully understood how each of their algoirthms worked. I add my kewords to the metadata and that's it.

agreed.  My only difference, is once in a while i'll add all the recommended other keywords on SS, since they obviously know better than i do about their algorithm 

Quote from: Firn on March 16, 2022, 12:55

Quote from: ouatedeP on March 16, 2022, 12:10


sold once for $2500  OR 25 times.  Not really equal, as for UK News image the  25 times could easily be under $100 in revenue.   

It could even be under $10.

haven't seen any UK News for that low.  Lowest i had was $1.14.   but yes there is report of lower

Quote from: ravens on March 16, 2022, 11:49
Alamy sent out an email featuring "Top Selling Content Of 2021" at the end of last week. Been waiting for a discussion about the best selling images, but when I just checked out the lightbox, it was empty.
Any ideas what this is all about?
Did you check out the images? Strikingly many bestsellers were historic images.

it was such a weird definition

sold once for $2500  OR 25 times.  Not really equal, as for UK News image the  25 times could easily be under $100 in revenue.   
Maybe this is why to killed it,

Quote from: zeljkok on March 16, 2022, 04:15
Didn't think this was possible anymore


It must be some sort of mistake?  If not, thank you Alamy.  This, even if rare, is what separates you from everyone else


What is the image that sold for almost 2 grand? Nothing special - Iron Mountain trailhead in Poway, California

one thing, the image is special in being one of only 6 in the whole databank, and clearly the better one.

also so much for the Alamy purist that having your image across various Stock telling you that client will go search it also on SS and go and buy it for 10 cents (sic!) there.

congratulations.  that's Alamy for you, every time you want to dump them you see a report like this

hope it sticks

Quote from: Uncle Pete on March 12, 2022, 15:19

Quote from: Mantis on March 11, 2022, 17:20
The world needs shots of green tomatoes. Stay away from the red ones.

Oh I'll need to do some shopping, great idea. Sliced green tomato, isolated on white, cropped for social media, with copy space. Yeah, that's the ticket. 

and then do some fried ones, i hear they are a speciality