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« on: November 13, 2019, 19:28 »
if you want live a normal life with micro you better move to a country with that cost of life...7k dollar of files per month at this point are not a joke i tell you.
Eh? Where are you unable to live in Europe on $7k a month? (Of course, it depends what your expenses are in getting the $7K, and I'm assuming you're talking about US$ and not, e.g. HK$). Even in London and Paris you can live very well on US$7k pm.
827
« on: November 11, 2019, 15:07 »
If it's a 'real' editorial image, and not just an 'Alamy-rules' editorial image, ask them who is taking the risk if the owner of the copyright sues.
That said, I've had an editorial pic used in a calendar and I wasn't consulted beforehand, and it was noted as a calendar sale, so I wonder why they contacted you. I think there might be different rules in different countries. Part of the legislation here (UK) says that a 2D representation of a 3D object doesn't breach copyright. That might not apply elsewhere.
828
« on: November 06, 2019, 10:44 »
Of course Getty wants to migrate all their buyers on to the premium access model, because profit seems to matter more to them than total sum.
829
« on: November 05, 2019, 12:02 »
I can't access ESP since yesterday, anyone else?
As far as I can see, I can get into everywhere, and see all my info, and dls ytd are incrementing; but I haven't tried uploading.
830
« on: November 05, 2019, 09:09 »
I had no idea what is the difference between city and town. City - bigger, town - smaller? In general yes but apparently in England a city is one that has a cathedral. Other parts of the world don't have cathedrals so we are guessing again. But it was interesting to know there was a criteria.
Most likely one would keyword for American English, since they seem to be the bulk of the stock buying customers. Thus City - bigger, town - smaller.
Excedpt that in Florida at least some places were called Cities that I would hardly even call a village. In Scotland there's an official list of seven 'cities' which has changed in the relatively recent past - and I bet very few people would get them all right! Not only that, in at least the area around Edinburgh, going 'tae the toon', refers to going into Edinburgh, and actually we might say, 'going into town' for going up to Glasgow. I generally write town for a Scottish city as well as city, but not vice versa.
831
« on: October 28, 2019, 15:49 »
Really glad that has worked out for you.
Best wishes.
832
« on: October 27, 2019, 07:27 »
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/sharia-law-book-american-1480503329?src=la706_2857ueGYAk9zRrVQ-1-62
Freedom of Speech......
Most likely to be used by Islamophobes as Hate Speech*. Both of which are rightly illegal in the UK (and no doubt other places). *even though badly thought out and badly executed (as Baldrick pointed out), the sort of people who are likely to use this image wouldn't have the intelligence to know any better. Still, maybe they don't do anything legal, like have an account at SS.
833
« on: October 27, 2019, 07:23 »
Oh, and while I think of it, I have a suspicion that your Green New Deal image should say "Democrats" not "Democrates".
Oh, so I needn't have wasted time trying (unsuccessfully) to find out what the Greek Philosopher has to do with this aspect of US politics. 
834
« on: October 23, 2019, 16:42 »
@Brasilnut, sorry if I misunderstood your meaning.
835
« on: October 23, 2019, 14:53 »
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836
« on: October 23, 2019, 07:36 »
Are we still getting DACS payments in October or did these go to charity as well?
I claim mine directly, but there's a thread on their forum re DACS.
837
« on: October 23, 2019, 07:27 »
is it possible to submit to Getty Images if already on istock?
In theory yes, in practice everyone I've read of who applied has been rejected. But for all I know people who have been accepted may be required not to tell (crazy hypothesis). All you can do is try. There are occasional posts about this in the iS forums.
838
« on: October 23, 2019, 06:58 »
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)
Wow, I hadn't realised it had sunk so low. Still, with all the money being wasted on Brexit I suppose I should be relieved it isn't lower. Still, I'm not sure how naming and shaming the UK for its current poor Overseas Aid Programme is relevant to this thread - and other countries do worse - indeed the very article you quote says the UK is the only country which has met it's UN target, so not sure why you've singled us out at all.
839
« on: October 23, 2019, 06:50 »
Didn't our good Lord say something about when you give to the needy you shouldn't call attention to yourself. Yes, it is in Matthew 6:3, when you give to charity, dont even let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be secret.
Yebbut Alamy hasn't said that Christianity is in their DNA.
Same thing is expressed in many cultures, "Good deeds should be done with intention, not for attention.", "A good deed dies, when it is spoken about", "Do charity silently, or else the charity is you", etc
If everything were equal, there is a group of contributors who would prefer to be associated with a charity enterprise they considered worthwhile than one which was run purely for profit or to pay off a debt. How would they know this was a possibility if they weren't informed? Not that everything is equal. 'Better charities are available' (subjective opinion), the directors awarded themselves big bonuses and they'd rather throw huge amounts of money on James West's hobby/side hustle than promote their core business.
840
« on: October 23, 2019, 04:18 »
Didn't our good Lord say something about when you give to the needy you shouldn't call attention to yourself. Yes, it is in Matthew 6:3, when you give to charity, dont even let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be secret.
Yebbut Alamy hasn't said that Christianity is in their DNA.
841
« on: October 22, 2019, 19:30 »
LOL I just saw your post and amended mine with an apology for having repeated what you said.
They do have the best commissions out there, and, like you, I think, I've been a big Alamy supporter, but they are losing some of my support.
 Yeah, their charities are slightly 'odd/off' (IMO other charities do similar work more effectively), and their net $$ are well down for me on last year, sales being about the same, though better at the beginning of the year. Pretty miffed with them today, having had both a partial-refund (of a file invoiced in January and paid in March) and an email telling me a reasonable-value sale from May was unrecoverable, the company being insolvent.  These things happen, but I haven't had any good news from them for ages to balance things out. Also it seems that their unrepaid loan to Videoloft/Manything is a more significant reason for their need to take more money from us.
842
« on: October 22, 2019, 19:19 »
Going from 50% to 40% is a 20% reduction in the commission you will earn.
Going from 100% to 90% would be a 10% reduction.
It's old math...or the "new math" I learned in the 1960's LOL...which is now old math...
I remember when they promised us that they would never cut our commission again after going from 60% to 50% (a 17% cut).
More than anything, it is really disappointing. I didn't mind so much when they first posted about their charities, since the charity was the impetus for the stock site to begin with. But after looking at the loss they wrote off last year in their Annual Statement, I'm not sure I believe they needed to cut commissions to improve operational costs. They said that earnings are flat, so the cut gives them 20% more revenue to work with. Seeing them pay dividends to their directors, write off a huge loan, and then brag about how charitable they are, without any info on just how they are going to improve operations, well, it certainly rankles.
Agree with the above (we posted the arithmetical working-out simultaneously!) Also, they were very aware of percentages given by most of their rivals (essentially crowd-sourced agencies) when they made their decision.
843
« on: October 22, 2019, 13:24 »
When did they cut the commission 20% in the last few months. What did I miss?
I'm still getting 50% on exclusive and 40% on non-exclusive? I was getting 50% since about 2010 if I remember right? That's 10%
Personally I don't care about their charity or board, I'm only interested in what I make.
10 is 20% of 50.
So each indie file sold earns you 20% less that it would have had it been 50%
Oh that modern math again where a 10% cut is a 20% cut? The post should have said, 20% loss in potential earnings then, not 20% cut?
Changing commission from 50% to 40% is a 10% reduction in commission, no matter how anyone wants to slice it.
Blowing on about your charity generosity a few months after cutting commissions by 20% is not a good look.
Note, it uses the word commissions, not income or earnings?
And no I still don't care about their charity, I care about what they pay me! Selfish, aren't I?
Semantics aside*, you are still being paid 20% less on your non-exclusive files, and that's all you care about. *and no matter how you look at it, it's still a 20% reduction in commission. If they went from 100% to 90%, that would be a 10% cut. 50% > 40% is a 20% cut.
844
« on: October 22, 2019, 13:14 »
When did they cut the commission 20% in the last few months. What did I miss?
I'm still getting 50% on exclusive and 40% on non-exclusive? I was getting 50% since about 2010 if I remember right? That's 10%
Personally I don't care about their charity or board, I'm only interested in what I make.
10 is 20% of 50. So each indie file sold earns you 20% less that it would have had it been 50%
845
« on: October 22, 2019, 02:53 »
I can't think what you can do other than post about it on their forum and hope that the moderator has a good suggestion. Good luck. You could also try reporting it as a 'general' concern. Even as an exclusive that's what I'd do as the unreported use requires you to wait for three months to see if the sale gets reported which is irrelevant in contexts like watermarked use, an editorial file being used commercially, or some thieving site offering the image for free. You'd think they didn't want to have to chase up misuses  
847
« on: October 21, 2019, 13:06 »
I do not sell editorial and can say Alamy give me a more money than iStock for example.
That's interesting. What are your port sizes on each? Wow!!! 10,674 on Alamy and 9272 on iS. Go Deyan!!! My port is a bit (c12%) bigger on Alamy and iS far out-earns Alamy each month (except May this year, first time in ten years Alamy earned more than iS, but that was definitely a one-off, in my case )(e.g. 4.5x more in Sept). But my files are editorial or 'most likely to be used editorially' and that's a big difference. I know some people personally who are doing well with Live News on Alamy, but you're the first commercial shooter I've read of who is doing well there. Well done! Added: a lot of your images are very 'editorial' in nature.
848
« on: October 21, 2019, 05:18 »
Pauws99. I just voiced my opinion. Please respect it and I will respect yours.
Alamy, respect your contributors! Be charitable to us!
I signed up to contribute to a photo agency , not do charity. Charities should be kept completely separate.
I'm not sure that Alamy's profit margin is any different to the rest of the industry what difference would it make if they spent the profit on coke and lapdancers? When you signed up to them their business model was quite open.
Nowhere was your opinion disrespected. Even with indie files, you get 40% via Alamy, which is more than you get from other agencies. With distributor sales you get 30%, which is about what you get from other agencies, (except iS if indie). If they weren't funding their charities they wouldn't exist at all. So it's up to you, contribute to them, or don't. You expressed your opinion about their modus operandi, Paws expressed an opinion about your opinion, that's how a forum works.
849
« on: October 18, 2019, 11:39 »
I have the feeling that after uploading they can do with my images whatever they want, selling them at any conditions, not caring that i'm still the copyright owner
So that would be like: Shutterstock: 1c "Shutterstock shall have the right, but not the obligation, to license all Content through any of Shutterstocks brands and platforms to its customers for use in perpetuity in accordance with license agreements entered into by Shutterstock, including but not limited to Shutterstock, Inc. Terms of Service License Agreements "Adobe (won't let me copy and paste, but it's clause 5.1) Alamy: "8.1 Alamy offers Custom Pricing to some of its Customers in relation to Rights Managed Images with or without exclusivity and Royalty Free Images i.e. pricing contracts entered into with Customers where Images are licensed for set amounts, dependent upon usage or dependent upon volumes of Images purchased. These licence prices may vary from those of the Alamy licence calculator and you agree that your Images can be licensed at these rates without Alamy having to consult you.
8.2 Alamy offers its Customers the ability to price up all Images on its site by using a licence calculator. You agree that Alamy can sell Images at the prices from this calculator without Alamy having to consult you.
8.3 Promotion - Alamy shall have the right to offer Customers promotions on Images to promote the Alamy service without Alamy having to consult you, including, but not limited to acquiring new Customers or stimulating buying from existing Customers by offering discounts." Please remind us where you submit which has lots of sales at better prices and no conditions like that.
850
« on: October 17, 2019, 17:12 »
I don't really unterstand how the number are done at IStock 
Don't worry, it's all smoke and mirrors. None of the figures seem to correspond.
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