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« on: November 20, 2019, 09:56 »
Riding the "iStock Rollercoaster". BME by $4. Cool.
552
« on: November 20, 2019, 05:27 »
Alamy is taking a good approach with their hybrid RF/RM licenses depending on buyers' needs.
I support them even if they drive me crazy with their passive approach to those suspicious Personal Usage licenses.
554
« on: November 16, 2019, 07:59 »
No offense, but if you're unhappy about that, you shouldn't do microstock and instead do real photography assignments. Or don't sell via Depositphotos, although most agencies sell for pennies.
It's not the price that bothers me, in this case, it's that particular buyer purchasing the wrong license, either deliberately or by ignorance. https://depositphotos.com/license-comparison.htmlThis needs to be an extended license as it's above the 500,000 circulation limit. https://depositphotos.com/license-comparison.htmlAlso steaming from more than a dozen suspicious Alamy Personal Usage licenses...
556
« on: November 09, 2019, 04:23 »
Interesting. Will take a look at Vimeo.
Thanks for sharing!
557
« on: November 09, 2019, 03:29 »
I recently had to go back into full-time non-photography related work to make ends meet. $1k - $1.3k a month isn't enough to live on in most developed countries.
Still earning passively indefinitely while working on something else is the huge benefit of this business model.
558
« on: November 08, 2019, 10:43 »
Had one this morning for one of my stills.
Oh cool. Was that for a Netflix license as well?
Yes
559
« on: November 08, 2019, 10:36 »
Had one this morning for one of my stills.
560
« on: November 07, 2019, 04:30 »
I have something like a 75% success rate on 2nd re-submissions without any changes whatsoever.
561
« on: November 06, 2019, 06:20 »
The writing has been on the wall for a long time...just that some contributors chose to ignore the market reality.
562
« on: November 05, 2019, 02:52 »
Another PU sale popped in this morning. These buyers are taking the piss (as the British would say)!
563
« on: November 04, 2019, 14:20 »
About bulk changing prices, I had this response today from P5 CS: You can use a CSV file to change pricing and other information in bulk. Please, check the instructions about how to work with our CSV files in this page: https://contributor.pond5.com/getting-started/preparing-your-files/
Inside the CSV file, you can use the column "price" to set the price of the original version of the clip, which would be the 4K version if the video was uploaded with that resolution.
After that, you can create another column called "pricelarge" to put there the price of the HD version of each clip.
If you need assistance to upload a CSV file that you have edited, please send it to us attached to an email and we'll be happy to check that everything is fine and to upload it to your Pond5 account.
564
« on: November 02, 2019, 15:01 »
If you're going to submit to Depositphotos, might as well submit to all the other minnows, including:
123RF, Bigstock, Dreamstime, CreativeMarket and SignElements. Notice that I excluded Canva.
All those should help pay for a few beers at the end of the month and combined, a new fast lens at the end of the year (on your 2,500 travel images). Can't really go wrong with that.
My only issue, as I have discussed on my latest report, is that some of these agencies will start struggling so much that they'll pretty much give away your/our images for free or team up with those Unsplash turds as Canva have done. Then, unfortunately your/our images will be smeared forever.
Thanks for the mention, happy that you're finding the content useful.
565
« on: November 02, 2019, 03:23 »
People that sell clips for 50$ 4k are the real problem for this industry,the race to the bottom starts from that....i wonder if you have the same clip on ss or as...
I take your point. I've recently let Pond5 decide my price and they've naturally placed them quite low. Time to re-examine this strategy. However, even with such relatively low prices for 4K content, I've only had 3 puny sales in the past 3 months.
566
« on: November 01, 2019, 03:17 »
I think part of their business strategy is to accumulate frustrated contributors' earnings that give up. They took my $12 since I also felt like I would never reach a payout.
If the images actually sold regularly I wouldn't mind their weird rejections but they have the worst of both worlds: almost no sales and ridiculously tough QC.
568
« on: October 31, 2019, 09:08 »
Rise of the machines?
569
« on: October 31, 2019, 06:29 »
Where is the cheating in the other 250 images totally produced by me?
Perhaps I'm being a bit harsh but seems like losing out on 250 images is hardly going to lead you to "have some financial difficulties and I am using image bank earnings to help pay some bills." Relatively easy to start over.
If SS closed my account with 10k images and nearly 1k videos I would lose out big time and they did threaten me.
I see, your account is still active... When did they closed it? and what they said to threaten you?
No impact on my account. They threatened to because I was trying to help them wack some moles (what, my thoughts exactly). I got a 6 day SS forum ban and 30 days moderation.
570
« on: October 31, 2019, 03:16 »
Where is the cheating in the other 250 images totally produced by me?
Perhaps I'm being a bit harsh but seems like losing out on 250 images is hardly going to lead you to "have some financial difficulties and I am using image bank earnings to help pay some bills." Relatively easy to start over. If SS closed my account with 10k images and nearly 1k videos I would lose out big time and they did threaten me.
571
« on: October 30, 2019, 06:51 »
ARTIST'S SUPPLY AGREEMENT (NON-EXCLUSIVE) iStock / Getty - https://contributors.gettyimages.com/article.aspx?article_id=4872b. By uploading Content, you are warranting that you own all proprietary rights or are the authorized representative of the applicable copyright owner(s) of such Content, including copyright, in and to the Content with full power to grant the rights contemplated in this Agreement. c. In addition, iStock may deem an account to be terminated and may off-set any fees or credits contained in such account against its costs of administration if there has been: (i) in the reasonable opinion of iStock, any material misrepresentation made as to the capacity, identity or copyright ownership of Content or you provided hereunder; 17. If and to the extent you are submitting Content to iStock as an authorized representative of the applicable copyright owner(s), you acknowledge and agree that (a) you will ensure that such copyright owner(s) comply with the terms of this Agreement where necessary; ----------- Adobe Stock Additional Terms - https://wwwimages2.adobe.com/content/dam/acom/en/legal/servicetou/Adobe_Stock_Terms-en_US-20170630_2200.pdfIn attachment. Conclusion: The rules are quite clear in this respect, both in the Adobe Stock licensing agreement and iStock Contributor agreement. Irrelevant that you only took one portion of an image to use in another to license. May be difficult to argue ignorance in this respect, but still worth a try as you have nothing to lose at this stage.
572
« on: October 24, 2019, 01:23 »
@Brasilnut, sorry if I misunderstood your meaning.
No worries 
574
« on: October 23, 2019, 03:03 »
There are copyright lawyers that specialise in this sort of issue. They would also have contacts with specialist accountants. I came across one such based in the US a long time ago but cannot recall. If anybody has such a contact...
Likely much better than trying to get anything out of us. Very easy for us to try to give advice but the responsibility remains with you!
575
« on: October 23, 2019, 02:50 »
We're giving Alamy a hard time as they recently cut our commissions 20% and then boast their charitable contributors. Not sure one is directly related to another. Since 2007, they've donated over $6 million so it's not a huge amount over 12 years. Their charity-giving program was initiated long way before our commission cut. Nevertheless, they're shooting themselves in the foot by posting on here since they should know better or don't care. Many contributors, including myself, are concerned that our hard work isn't being rewarded and in my case when it is, I feel like I'm being taken a ride by buyers who purchase Personal Use licenses for cheap to use commercially. I wish that the charitable donations would be more related to the photography industry. They do have a students' program and this is a great initiative. More of these would be welcome. Anyway, not like contributors have a say anyway. P.s UK taxpayers are already paying part of their tax towards the UK's commitment towards overseas aid (which includes social programs in India) - 0.7% of GDP (source: https://www.theweek.co.uk/63394/foreign-aid-how-and-where-is-britain-s-budget-spent)
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