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« on: March 27, 2024, 15:59 »
Check your Contributor Fund - I got a mid two-figure present today.
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« on: January 04, 2024, 13:03 »
Level 2!! Woo Hoo!!
We now return you to your regularly scheduled programming.
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« on: December 18, 2023, 13:34 »
Better than I expected, no complaints.
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« on: October 25, 2023, 08:08 »
"A temporary technical issue with our payment platform may delay royalty payments this month. We are working diligently to ensure that payments are made as close to the end of the month as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause."
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« on: September 19, 2023, 12:44 »
"To make sure you continue having the most secure experience possible on Bigstock, were regularly monitoring our site and the Internet to keep your account information safe. We have detected some suspicious activity and as a precaution have reset the password to your account."
They also added a link, but I am hesitant to click.
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« on: July 13, 2023, 15:54 »
There's a video on Twitter talking about how Disney wants to scan background workers and pay them for one day's work with the rights to use that scan in perpetuity.
I hope (not keeping my fingers crossed) that, somehow, the benefits of their strike will trickle down to stock photographers.
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« on: June 30, 2023, 08:55 »
Uh oh, is this the end?
Or the beginning of GREAT NEWS!!!!
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« on: June 20, 2023, 15:14 »
The landscape of creative opportunity is continuing to evolve, and technology is playing an even more instrumental role. We recognize that Bigstock has not enjoyed many of the platform advances we have introduced in recent years on Shutterstock and were making changes to address that. Here are the changes and opportunities that will soon be coming your way: Shutterstock will soon begin to make modifications to Bigstocks front end and back end technologies in an attempt to stabilize, and hopefully revitalize, the site.This renovation will be disruptive to certain parts of our current workflow and so we have decided to temporarily suspend new content submissions on Bigstock as of June 30th, 2023. During this time, you will still be able to access your Bigstock contributor account and will continue to accrue earnings for licenses completed on your current catalog. Additionally, you will continue to have the ability to request payment on accrued earnings at any time. Our Contributors are a vital part of our ecosystem and for those of you who are not already a part of our Shutterstock community, we would encourage you to start a portfolio on Shutterstock.com so you can access greater opportunity as a content creator and reach our growing global customer base. This support article will further explain how this will impact your contributor account. We are introducing the Contributor Fund as a way to compensate Bigstock contributors for your data's role in training computer vision models. Generative AI is an exciting technology that has quickly become a big part of the discourse on creative production. Shutterstock is partnering with the premier AI companies in the world that are building responsibly sourced AI generative content models. One of the ways Shutterstock supports the advancement of AI technology is by supplying customers with content known as datasets on which they can train their models while the artists who produce this content are compensated you can learn more about it here. We have also put together this Bigstock FAQ to explain how datasets and the Contributor Fund apply to your Bigstock account, including the ability to opt-out from future data deals. As innovation of this ground-breaking technology continues, were excited to see Bigstock play an even larger part. Thank you as always for being a valued part of our contributor community. If you have any questions, please dont hesitate to contact our support team by sending an email to [email protected].
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« on: March 20, 2023, 09:56 »
From eMail:
Congratulations on becoming a member of our Special Program for contributors!
From now on, in addition to your regular income from selling files on our platform, youll receive 40% of net revenue for files downloaded under a Depositphotos subscription. Your royalties will be awarded in aggregate at the end of each month.
If a photo or vector image is purchased with any of our Subscription Plans, your royalty rate is fixed and depends solely upon your Contributor's Level.
Contributors who participate in the Revenue Share Special Program will share 40% of net subscription revenue. Royalties are prorated among Contributors according to the proportion of their files in individual subscribers downloads, with increased earnings for those at higher Contributors Levels. Royalties for files downloaded under the Program are awarded in aggregate at the end of each month.
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« on: February 22, 2023, 09:05 »
THE BLUE BAR IS BACK!!!!
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« on: February 14, 2023, 09:02 »
Anyone see it yet?
Awful. Yet another change for the sake of pissing off contributors.
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« on: February 02, 2023, 08:24 »
Starting a new thread. Got tired of the old thread trying to trick me.
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« on: January 31, 2023, 16:45 »
1) Anyone receive their SS 1099 yet?
2) Will/does it include Pond5 earnings?
Thanks!
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« on: December 27, 2022, 11:28 »
The Internal Revenue Service is delaying the new $600 reporting threshold for 1099-K tax forms, a move many tax experts believe will help avoid potential chaos this upcoming filing season. The updated law, enacted by the American Rescue Plan, required third-party transaction networks such as Venmo, Paypal, eBay, and Etsy to issue a 1099-K for users who had more than $600 in payment transactions during the year. The previous threshold was $20,000 with over 200 transactions. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/irs-ditches-new-tax-requirement-that-would-have-caused-lots-of-confusion-160527007.html
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« on: October 25, 2022, 07:13 »
Were excited to announce that we are partnering with OpenAI to bring the tools and experiences to the Shutterstock marketplace that will enable our customers to instantly generate and download images based on the keywords they enter.
As we step into this emerging space, we are going to do it in the best way we know howwith an approach that both compensates our contributor community and protects our customers.
In this spirit, we will not accept content generated by AI to be directly uploaded and sold by contributors in our marketplace because its authorship cannot be attributed to an individual person consistent with the original copyright ownership required to license rights. Please see our latest guidelines here. When the work of many contributed to the creation of a single piece of AI-generated content, we want to ensure that the many are protected and compensated, not just the individual that generated the content.
In the spirit of compensating our contributor community, we are excited to announce an additional form of earnings for our contributors. Given the collective nature of generative content, we developed a revenue share compensation model where contributors whose content was involved in training the model will receive a share of the earnings from datasets and downloads of ALL AI-generated content produced on our platform.
We see generative as an exciting new opportunityan opportunity that were committed to sharing with our contributor community. For more information, please see our FAQ on the subject, which will be updated regularly.
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« on: September 01, 2022, 11:28 »
Wow, what a cluster this has become. (I understand that there has been a discussion of PLUS vs. Premium...)
Has anyone figured out how to differentiate their images between editorial and commercial? They make you click a button that indemnifies 123RF from being sued, so I'm not going to upload until they let me mark images as editorial.
They have turned uploading into an IQ test and I'm failing. I have sent emails (multiple) and have heard nothing in return.
ugh.
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« on: July 05, 2022, 18:56 »
I am deciding whether to add a drone to my gear but I'd like a little feedback on what is involved with getting the license.
I downloaded an 88 page study guide - I have to pay $175, register, find a testing location and score better than 70% on the test.
TSA background checks, retesting every 24 months (free? $175? on-line?)
I guess my question is, is it worth it?
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« on: April 15, 2022, 09:42 »
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