Quote from: Pacesetter on April 12, 2025, 02:21
They can find the time and resources to remove files but no time and resources to review submitted ones.

I guess they run some "AI' tool

my removals are very random "Incompatible with Terms" but what exactly triggered the removal I can't guess

run a search and found 2 of my pictures marked as exclusive to alamy
unchecked the mark

I've got the email
but dont see anything on alamy site or their forum
will wait

exciting news!

Quote from: Her Ugliness on September 28, 2023, 16:37
The exact numbers are 60-80$ (depending on the mission) for 500-1000 images. Thus $0.06-$0.16/image.

may be it worth for mirorrless  / phone cameras
but killing DSLR mirror for that - meh

Quote from: muha on August 08, 2023, 12:33
I repeatedly wrote to them in different places about this and always received some kind of nonsense in response and an offer to write somewhere else, once they replied that the images are "not the same".

In the past they were answering on twitter, but dont agree to "take it offline" and  dont believe to "our representatives will check this", keep pushing publicly to get it resolved 

also even now you can feed an image to the "AI" and get similar but different (and copyright free!) image
I bet the function will get only better with the time

no doubt, while AI is eating the pie, photographers still can grab few crumbs here and there

Quote from: Noedelhap on March 24, 2023, 11:32
- Oversupply of AI generated images/video, the market will become saturated if it hasn't already.

and you dont need a library of images anymore (soon)
AI will generate images on demand when you need them with the best quality available at the day of generation
Imagine a web page just calling an API to generate  unique illustration tailored for every visitor

Quote from: Noedelhap on February 28, 2023, 18:54

Quote from: U11 on February 28, 2023, 18:39

Quote from: Noedelhap
I guess it has something to do with the fact that my Paypal account is set up from inside the EU so it has different textfields to link your bank than a US Paypal account? That would be ridiculous. Paypal isn't any help either.

have you tried to reach wise helpdesk?

It's not a Wise thing, it's a Paypal thing.
I might try HalfFull's tip. But already I think it's too much hassle. Should be much less cumbersome to transfer some money.

up to you, you know better
my point was: wise is interested in getting your money (vs paypal which is not interested to loose their fat commission) so they may try to help
i dont think you are the only non-US user who wants to use wise for converting USD

Quote from: Noedelhap
I guess it has something to do with the fact that my Paypal account is set up from inside the EU so it has different textfields to link your bank than a US Paypal account? That would be ridiculous. Paypal isn't any help either.

have you tried to reach wise helpdesk?

.

lets face it we are witnessing the death of picture copyright (may be except editorial)
even today you can put a picture as a prompt and get back a similar but different picture copyright free, think what will happen in another couple of years

Quote from: Noedelhap on February 27, 2023, 19:11
I tried to setup my Wise account but how do I link my Paypal account (which has USD as primary currency) to my Wise USD account? I can only link a bank using IBAN...But my Wise USD account doesn't have IBAN.

US banks are not using IBAN
anyway go to your wise USD account ==> Your USD account details 
there are 2 tabs one for US, one for non US
and BTW you are linkinking Paypal to Wise and not the other way around, right?

Quote from: lenev on February 24, 2023, 18:23

Quote from: U11 on February 24, 2023, 14:30
wise.com is a good option for low commission conversions between major currencies, check it out

True, wise.com have low commission, but no option do withdraw from Adobe to Wise 

paypal to wise and wise to paypal is free 

Quote from: lenev on February 23, 2023, 11:23
PayPal is taking too much of a fee for conversion USD to my local currency (and no option to withdraw USD).
I'm losing minimum 60$ to PayPal each month, which is 720$ a year only for currency conversion!

wise.com is a good option for low commission conversions between major currencies, check it out

Quote from: Reimar on February 10, 2023, 18:59
I was trying to get DALL-E to generate a photo of a Ukranian soldier firing a bazooka at a Russian tank in winter.  All efforts and variations in wording produced totally unusable results.  Even with a lot of fixing up, I can't see sending results to a stock site.

just try doing something more peaceful and you will succeed 

Quote from: PigsInSpace
Among those who don't support the war, can they say so publicly? Even on an anonymish forum like MSG? 

you can see plenty of those spamming comments on russian social media sites ( even so it is hard to tell percentage of ukrainian/western bots vs real russian citizens)
also you may want to expand your question and try to check out what's up with ukranians who refuse participating in the war

Quote from: Wilm on January 23, 2023, 07:20

Quote from: U11 on January 23, 2023, 01:57
got enhanced license sold by SS today for below $2

What???

got enhanced license sold by SS today for below $2 

it is not only about Etsy, creative gig economy is built on this
look at Fiverr or any POD site they are full of unlicensed work
and to take down your stolen work you need a DMCA
which may easily take all your available time
whiles thieves need just re-register under a new name

SS is clearly interested in force feeding us with the info they want, like "This Month's Shot List" and ideally they would prefer us not to see how low they are selling our work

Quote from: Rage on June 16, 2020, 16:52
So while profile activation and deactivation will happen lets stay ahead of the curve and figure out how else we can get our point across to Shutterstock.

Some ideas seen till now
1. Contact buyers, suggest move to Adobe
2. Media - especially places that buyers frequent
3. Youtube, Insta influencers talking points
4. Spread the word on deactivations

We are supposed to be creative people, what else comes to mind

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• contact journalists who cover similar issues in different industries (Uber drivers as employees for example)
• contact contributors who didn't pull the plug and ask them for any support they can provide

Quote from: Shelma1 on June 14, 2020, 17:56
Dollar Photo Club died and iStock shrunk substantially. How this "changed nothing" I don't know.

but both still selling pictures for peanuts,
% contributor gets is low, 
it is much harder to remove/disable your pictures there - watch SS removing the option in near future

first we killed traditional stock business, now "uber economy" is killing microstock for us
we just need to move out and let people who appreciate 10 cents earnings enjoy their ride

our previous revolts against Fotolia and Istock/Getty changed nothing

but I disabled my port on SS today as a sign of solidarity and support of the right cause