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« on: February 05, 2024, 10:05 »
All pointing to using our images for AI training, paying us nothing and not allowing us to take any action. Seems like may be time to leave another site then, shame really, always do quite well with them.
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« on: February 05, 2024, 09:13 »
But they do not specify what the changes are, you have to go through the whole thing and compare it to the old one to try and find the changes and hope that is right.
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« on: December 14, 2022, 09:45 »
As one of the lucky ones to receive the whole package benefit, this would be a HUGE help in the current economic situation, please please please Adobe - same again this year??!!
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« on: August 16, 2022, 01:26 »
Same question regarding content created using Midjourney AI, we own the image rights so is it possible to sell on stock sites?
Question applies to ALL AI generated images I guess
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« on: June 09, 2022, 03:48 »
Matt, You confirmed that downloads of free images do not count towards getting a free subscription. But if I have 100 images accepted and Adobe pays $5 for each of those images, would it count as 100 sales toward a free subscription?
If you get $500 use that to pay for the annual sub
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« on: May 04, 2022, 03:13 »
There is absolutely no way that any incoming CEO will reverse the commission cuts, they would have no way to replace the lost profit without increasing sales prices in correlation to the increased commission payments - which just isn't going to happen!
Best case scenario is that they remove the January reset each year but even that would be very unlikely as that generates the majority of the profit from the exercise.
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« on: April 19, 2022, 13:05 »
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I di da straight C&P so no possible errors, suppose we won;t know untiul payment comes in and see if it matches graph or file
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« on: April 19, 2022, 12:47 »
My graph show decent sales but the exported spreadsheet shows approx one third less in sales - anyone else?
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« on: April 12, 2022, 06:43 »
Wow, someone's bored, 14 year old thread!
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« on: September 26, 2021, 01:20 »
Yep, same issue, not happened before
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« on: June 14, 2021, 03:12 »
Isn't it in T&Cs that if you offer your clips cheaper elsewhere they can adjust it down to match? May be that if you're selling elsewhere, would explain why your exclusive clips aren't changed?
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« on: March 07, 2021, 03:39 »
This little growth is the contributors money that went straight down their pockets! nothing else. So whats next? how are they going to maintain their growth? by stealing from us yet again and again and again??
Definitely the major part of their profit growth came from lowering our pay. They exactly knew what they were trying to do.
No it didn't. You do realise that the lowered rates did not start until January 1st don't you? So the results of that won't be reported until the end of Q1 in 2021 - so all of the increased profits, etc are the results of actions taken other than cutting commission rates.
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« on: June 18, 2020, 08:27 »
And for the second month running they have taken the difference between my actual earnings and the guaranteed amount and deducted it form my account balance, so therefore not paying me any extra whatsoever.
So they have said we will guarantee double March payment for 6 months but then takes the difference from our balance so in effect all they are doing is giving you a pay advance.
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« on: May 30, 2020, 14:19 »
Me too, looks like difference between sales and promised double payment amount
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« on: May 17, 2020, 02:33 »
Thanks for answering. So you do have an agreement with SS which is why no-one else can submit similar PD images, they already have over 60,000 from you so why accept more - only so many books with illustrations you can use I suppose? So not only are you making money from other people's creations (albeit PD images), you are actually stopping other people from doing the same by having this special agreement with SS?
I do wonder if it was you/your agreement with SS that prompted them to no longer accept PD images.
I didn't say there wasn't any work involved, and I didn't reference IS or Getty - they have different rules I guess and we all know they are just about making as much money as possible so selling PD images for them is of no moral consequence whatsoever.
Anyway, thanks for confirming that there is an agreement, I always suspected there was for there to be so many images.
Classy business strategy - make money from other people's creations and get the main agency to allow you to do it.
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« on: May 16, 2020, 19:04 »
So, Morphart, you have been asked a few times on here and SS forums, how it is that you are able to upload and sell scanned vectors of old public domain illustrations and make money from them when they are not your own creations, but you have never answered the question, you suddenly just disappear from whatever the thread is - care to do so now?
How is it that you can scan all old images from books like Troussets Encyclopaedia, convert them into vectors and sell them to make money from? Do you have a special agreement with SS? Do you feel any guilt that they aren't your creations but you are making money from them? Do you have special dispensation from SS to upload public domain images that no-one else has? You have 611 pages of "vintage engraved" images, over 61,000 images which you did not create.
Will you answer or disappear?
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« on: March 17, 2020, 05:43 »
I remember seeing that wolf and moon image on a vector training website so it may not be a case of anyone stealing, but using free download parts of the final image and they are all putting them together in the same way, following instructions on the training course, and then all uploading them.
Not so much stealing as all using parts of someone else's work without permission I guess.
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« on: August 05, 2019, 07:49 »
So if I have an image on FAA and sell it for $200 with my margin set at 40% I would get $80 plus any additional for framing, etc. If SS have put my image up there as well, priced the same, they would take the $80 and give me what? $25 for an EL - maybe, more likely $0.38 for a sub sale. And if they are pricing at a lower margin than I am then they are more likely to get the sale of my image than I am.
This stinks and if true is a new low, even for SS.
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« on: May 24, 2019, 05:09 »
An agency would be more likely to go to court for a license issue rather than copyright - they don't own the copyright so why would they pursue it? It would be down to you as copyright owner to pursue.
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« on: April 23, 2019, 09:50 »
For me they run very close, and Adobe gave me free PS for a year, I wouldn't say they have done nothing
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« on: April 21, 2019, 02:37 »
Maybe the exclusives are getting preference?
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« on: April 18, 2019, 09:13 »
Many thanks David, much appreciated
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« on: April 18, 2019, 09:02 »
Could someone please post the link to access ESP? I have just changed PC and it didn't copy that over from my favourites for some reason. Many thanks
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« on: March 09, 2019, 14:07 »
Yep, but considering how much they reject and how low sales are it is probably just saving me time!
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« on: January 21, 2019, 11:21 »
Been doing stock since 2006. I am sure there are many old timers that still remember the time when high value sales were both regular and in high volumes. I remember the days of 20-30 or more EL sales at SS in a month, every month. Not anymore. I guess we are now in the period where we will have to accept whatever is coming our way or quit. I cant complain though - still doing quite well to make it worthwhile for me to continue.
I like Canva and I always hoped that they will be able to fill that loss of the declining sales at the other agencies. For me this never really happened, possibly because I joined them relatively late. Based on what I see happening there now I cannot see that it will change anytime soon. They will remain one of my low earners and it frustrates me to see only those $0.35 sales. You may have better luck and a wish to all the success.
Some people probably remember the good old macrostock days (not me, I'm much newer than you)... The thing is simple - more and more people want to spend as little money as possible on the images, which is why the bigger sales on SS and other sites are in less numbers than before. So trying to raise the prices would be a suicide. That's the state of the market nowadays, we can't go around it. All what agencies and us can do is keep the current state and not allow any further devaluation.
So as I said, all what Canva did bad for us is the Getty deal. Their prices are not the problem, they fit perfectly into the current market, which is a must nowadays if you want to have any success.
Is it people looking to spend less and less? Or is it the agencies representing us that are competing with each other so much that they have decided to lower prices - the customer is still happy to pay whatever the price is for the image they want, it is the agencies that dictate the price, not the customers.
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