That's good news.  Fotolia accepted it today too.  The others are slower, so I'll wait and see.
For the ones that have not been submitted yet, I will replace the notes by public domain stuff - once I have a nice "old" sheet with public domain notes I can re-use it all the time!

I should've thought of that of course, I just liked the old parchment paper so much.
But hey, here comes photoshop, so I can have both : use the parchment, remove the notes and put traditional music on it instead. 
However, I'm still curious if - legally - I can/could use sheet music published in 1913?

Does any one know about music copyright ? 

I made a composite photo of a musical instrument against a grungy background.  This background is a mixture of texture and an old page of sheet music.

I removed all text, so it's just the notes.  The music book I took the page from has a copyright mark dated 1913.  So both the publication and the music must be at least 96 years old.
Shutterstock refused the photo because of copyright reasons - so I expect other agencies to follow.

Did I make a mistake here?    Would mentioning the age of the music help?   

Yes I recently discovered that Lightroom trick too.  Works great!  You can "shift" the fringe a bit to the left/right and make it disappear, and also change its color.  That's 2 minutes instead of 20.  Well worth a try!

I think the difference in "just recycling time" is more important than you may think. 
Maybe not if you are working with objects or adult models, but if you like working with animals and/or children, it can be important that your strobes can follow the speed of your camera.  I work with Elinchrom studio lights and if my inpredictable models (babies, easter chicks, toddlers, even mice) are doing cute things, I am always very happy that the lights reload fast enough to catch the moment.

Here we go again :  Istock just refused 2 MR's of the same shoot.  They have accepted more than 80% of that shoot already and now suddenly they decide it is not compatible with Istock policy.  They don't even state why.

I just got a reply by Dreamstime :

"Dear Anyka,
Thank you for contacting us.
We modified the download record and removed the extra $0.10 from your account.
We thank you for letting us know.
Kind Regards,
Erin Vandivier
Customer Service Manager"

I also checked all recent files and changed them back to non-exclusive.  It appeared to be every photo of 1 single batch.  Must've been a just-once-bug?  I thought one could only tick the exclusive box on a per-photo basis?  Oh well, it's solved now.

I would absolutely miss the site if it would close down!

Especially for us whose native language is not English, a site like this is a real help.  For keywording, certainly, but it also enlarges my vocabulary.
If no sites like this existed, I would do the searching manually, so you can call me a keyword-thief also, only a private one.  I never copy all keywords of a specific image, because then there's a big chance I would copy irrelevant words, but I do pick up unknown words.
(example :  pictures of snails :  slug??? I never heard of that word before)

My finnish is a bit rusty, so please help me understand :  I can see 2 prices for each image :  40 and 15 euros.  And Rodeo would pay 35% ?  So artists would earn about 15 or 5 euros per image sold ?

Another question :  if a photographer sends a dvd with 1000 keyworded images (keywords embedded in IPTC I presume) - how long will it take for these 1000 photos to appear for sale on the website?  Will they first appear on Kuvakori and then be transferred to Rodeo, or will they only appear on Rodeo by the end of February?

I also read that "you will take care of the rest".  Does that mean the photographer does not have to do any processing, like choosing categories or so?

Last one (at least for now  ) :  what kind of photos are you looking for in the first place?  (or, if the answer is "all kinds of photos" :  what kind of photos are you NOT looking for?).

It'll be quite weird to work with a site where you cannot check your sales ...

Well, the question is : how many images does an average user shoot per year?  For me, that would be around 1000.  If I could use the same keywords for every 5 photos, I would use the keywording feature 200 times per year x 0,05 = 10 dollars.   For some one who does more similar photos, like 10 per subject, it would only be 5 dollars.
You could also let the user choose how much he/she wants to pay in advance, and let the site deduct 0,05 per search.

Maros, I just used the site for the first time since I registered.  I simply love it that I can search 4 sites in one run!!!  Fantastic!
One little bug :  if I choose "semicolon + space" or "comma + space", the spaces never show up in the results ...

Even if I could go back to last year's models and present the Istock Model Release to them : I simply do not want to do that.  Suppose all agencies would be so fussy, should we take 6 different releases and ask every model to sign it?  No way. 
Before contacting Scout, I'll resubmit and see if I am lucky enough to get a different reviewer.

Like most of you, I work with a model release that suits every microstock site.  After a few adjustments, it seems it is good enough for every site and I have used it for 1,5 years without problems, including Istockphoto.
This week however, I had 16 images inspected, and 5 contained people.  Istock rejected all 5 because of "MR not compatible with Istock policy".   No reason given, so I don't know what would be missing suddenly.  (and FYI : each MR was for a different model, of a different shoot).
Among those 5 were 3 model releases they had already accepted several times before.
I am not going to contact the models to sign the Istock model release, so what should I do?

Does any one know what detail in a standard MR they are looking for at the moment? 
At least I 'd know what's wrong with it all of a sudden!