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« on: February 13, 2013, 17:48 »
James,
Thank you very much for your helpful answer.
Cheers
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« on: February 12, 2013, 17:03 »
I will try to get an answer from Alamy and will post it here.
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« on: February 12, 2013, 15:30 »
I will deactivate at least a part of my portfolio at iStock and would like to sell part of it as RM on Alamy.
Does Alamy accept images that have been RF somewhere else and that have sold as such before?
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« on: February 12, 2013, 01:23 »
Right, we don't hold physical releases but we do have the digital copies and I am pretty sure these would hold up in court should a model sue us for whatever reason.
Do you? Because I don't. At lypses, the models usually only sign one global release. That gets approved by iStock HQ and then will be distributed to the photographers.
So I don't hold any releases with my name on it. I won't be able to upload them anywhere else.
What I was trying to say is that the digital copy is a proof for the fact that a valid release was given to us as photographers so the model would not be the problem. Even though your name is not on the paper the model could not argue that you took the pictures, she or he signed a release and approved to commercial usage of the images. I do see difficulties regarding the acceptance of the releases by other agencies.
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« on: February 12, 2013, 01:11 »
...Regarding the iStockalypse Attendee Registration: Does anyone have a copy? I seem to remember I have signed something about my participation on my own risk blablabla but I cannot remember a document forbidding to sell the content somewhere else.
I have a copy of the one for the August 2009 iStockalypse in Calgary. The registration was separate from the liability waiver (if you kill yourself it's not our fault) and also from the MR I signed as an attendee - I was an extra in some other people's shots
Great. Would you mind quoting the text? I assume they all have the same wording.
I did several posts back - the paragraph about where the content can go.
Thanks. I will look for it.
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« on: February 11, 2013, 16:15 »
Sean,
I haven't had the pleasure yet of meeting you but for sure you are a great guy and you were one of the big assets iStock had. The fact that they kicked you out was the proverbial last straw and I will leave iStock asap. Maybe the new agency will be the place to go for me as well. It would be great to meet there again.
Cheers
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« on: February 11, 2013, 16:07 »
...Regarding the iStockalypse Attendee Registration: Does anyone have a copy? I seem to remember I have signed something about my participation on my own risk blablabla but I cannot remember a document forbidding to sell the content somewhere else.
I have a copy of the one for the August 2009 iStockalypse in Calgary. The registration was separate from the liability waiver (if you kill yourself it's not our fault) and also from the MR I signed as an attendee - I was an extra in some other people's shots
Great. Would you mind quoting the text? I assume they all have the same wording.
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« on: February 11, 2013, 14:02 »
I haven't been to a full lypse, but that was the agreement for an official minilypse too. Also in the only minilypse I have experience of, we didn't every have access to the signed releases. The organiser sent them all off to HQ to be verified, then we all got electronic copies, at a time when only pen signed paper copies were accepted. So I guess these releases wouldn't be acceptable anywhere else anyway.
It depends whether the lypse was funded or not, even if the funding was extremely token.
Right, we don't hold physical releases but we do have the digital copies and I am pretty sure these would hold up in court should a model sue us for whatever reason.
I can't find anything in the release that says that the content must be sold on stock only. In the contrary it says in the definitions part "ASSIGNS means a person or any company to whom Photographer/Filmmaker has assigned or licensed rights under this release as well as the licensees of any such person or company."
Regarding the iStockalypse Attendee Registration: Does anyone have a copy? I seem to remember I have signed something about my participation on my own risk blablabla but I cannot remember a document forbidding to sell the content somewhere else.
The electronic release I have just has the organizer's signature not mine, mine would be on the attached lypse roster as stated on the model release.
Correct. The photographers name is nowhere to be found but it is clear that there is a photographer and that it is you and that you have been given a release. You have been given that release. Not iStockphoto.
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« on: February 11, 2013, 13:59 »
This is them the Minilypse Sticky
Here are the Golden Rules of a Minilypse:
1) Any images created during the event must be distributed exclusively by iStockphoto.
2) The Host/ Organizer is in constant contact with HQ
3) Have fun
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=339193&page=1
Thanks. So it's in a sticky. But what can they do when someone is leaving iStock for good? The only risk I can see is that another agency might not accept the release.
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« on: February 11, 2013, 13:53 »
I haven't been to a full lypse, but that was the agreement for an official minilypse too. Also in the only minilypse I have experience of, we didn't every have access to the signed releases. The organiser sent them all off to HQ to be verified, then we all got electronic copies, at a time when only pen signed paper copies were accepted. So I guess these releases wouldn't be acceptable anywhere else anyway.
It depends whether the lypse was funded or not, even if the funding was extremely token.
Right, we don't hold physical releases but we do have the digital copies and I am pretty sure these would hold up in court should a model sue us for whatever reason. I can't find anything in the release that says that the content must be sold on stock only. In the contrary it says in the definitions part "ASSIGNS means a person or any company to whom Photographer/Filmmaker has assigned or licensed rights under this release as well as the licensees of any such person or company." Regarding the iStockalypse Attendee Registration: Does anyone have a copy? I seem to remember I have signed something about my participation on my own risk blablabla but I cannot remember a document forbidding to sell the content somewhere else.
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« on: February 11, 2013, 13:25 »
I only attended the HQ lypse in Calgary in 2009. I seem to remember that even for mini-lypses they said in the forums that when iStock kicked in some cash for the event, they wanted the images, even from indies, to be sold only on iStock.
In my case it was in the agreement I signed "You agree that you will make all images or video recorded by you during the Event available for license exclusively from istockphoto.com whether or not you are currently or later become a non-exclusive contributor."
Is that the contributor agreement you are talking about or a separate agreement you have signed at the Lypse?
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« on: February 11, 2013, 13:14 »
... I have a lot of images that were taken at iStock minilypse events so they can only be sold on istock...
... the iStockalypse images I left as I can't sell them anywhere else anyway...
I didn't know that you cannot sell images that were shot on a Lypse on istock only. Where in the contract does it say that? I didn't sign anything at the Lypses I have attended.
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