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iStockPhoto.com / Re: Google giving photos away free for commercial use and iStock agrees
« on: January 16, 2013, 09:08 »Correct me if I'm wrong, guys.They do compensate people with $12 per image used
Getty claims that they have a right to give away my works for free via third party partners. And there is a theoretical possibility that one day they do it with all my portfolio if they want to. Which certainly immediately kills my microstock business.
And the only way to escape this scary future possibility is to remove the whole port from Getty as soon as possible.
Is that the situation we are dealing with today?If they added two zeroes at the end of that, it might be adequate compensation, given that they've used highly commercial images. I'm not even sure if non-exclusives get the full $12?
I think you miss the point. I'm not talking here about fair compensation.
This time they sold to google one of my works ( for 12 $) . They claim it's legal. If selling one image like that is legal, next time they can include 100 or 10000 or 1000000 of my images in similar deal. It will also be completely OK and legal for them. Today they make 6000 images avilable for free download on Google. Tomorrow the whole getty and istock collections can be included, if they want to. Why not? What bothers me is not the money or compensation. I don't want to find out one day that whole my port is availble online for free to google or microsoft clients. In this case all my buyers from Shutterstock an Fotolia will stop buying my images. They will go to Google instead. And there is no way for my to prevent it.
