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General Stock Discussion / Pixtastock - new TOS« on: January 23, 2015, 04:43 »
Hi,
i know that most of you think that PIXTAstock is crap and i know that their changes of royalty in 2014 was a scandal. http://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/pixta-changes-once-again-commissions-etc/msg384492/#msg384492 Nevertheless i would like to know what their new TOS rolls out in comparison to their old TOS. The new TOS will be effective on 30.01.2015 http://www.pixtastock.com/blog/updates-of-the-terms-of-use-effective/ We asked them to provide us with a comparison between new and old TOS but the only thing we got was answers which were very vague and unclear like: "As for the details of our new TOS, we'll announce on 30th January. So please wait for the announcement." Our answer was: "Since your new TOS will be effective on 30.01 i can not wait until the 30.01 to get the details. So please send us a comparison of your old TOS vs. your new TOS asap" They answered: "The updates this time are mainly for the purchasing users, and we have tried to explain in the previous notice on January 21 the updates that may also affect the contributor members among them. Hope you understand that we need to be fair to other contributors, so please wait for the official announcement on 30th January." We informed them that we will start this thread and invited them to make statement here. We will see what happens Is somebody around here who can bring some light in that darkness and who can explain us what exactly will change?? regards axel 3
Shutterstock.com / SS sends mass-mail with open adresslist« on: November 19, 2014, 03:47 »
I have no G-rated words for this :
I received a begging-mail from [email protected] containing a litany about the benefits of opt-in into subscription footage sales ...bla bla the scandal is.... a: we stopped to sell our footage a while ago because SS stopped to support us (alsway trouble with CSV import) b: the mail had an open adresslist with more than 60 adresses 4
Dreamstime.com / Action against Dreamstime - we are looking for an US-based attorney« on: May 29, 2014, 03:52 »
Hi,
has someone an recommendation for an US-based attorney? We already asked our german attorney to take legal action against DT but its always better if you have a "partner-lawyer" in the country where the compagny resides. If you know a competent lawyer with experience in copyright-law and stockmarket-business , please let us know (either here or by PM). Thanx for your help regards axel 5
General - Stock Video / Massive Discrepancies with Stockeon regarding their TOS« on: May 28, 2014, 07:19 »
Hi,
since the support from stockeon is not willing (or able ??) to clearify a question about minimum payout i ask here and hope that someone knows. I asked them if there is a minimum payout amount. Support said : "There is no minimum - you are paid what you earn each month. If you earn $1000 for example, we pay that (minus hold amount which is paid later). If you'll earn $1, we pay that as well. No minimum as we don't want to hold users money unnecessarily. " Their TOS (http://www.stockeon.com/conditions.html) say in Paragraph 7: "The Author agrees for the remuneration to be paid after reaching the minimum amount and to be paid by the 15th of next month, in accordance with these Terms of Service and a relevant agreement." This is a relevant discrepancy between what their support says and what their TOS say. That means: Whenever they want they can change the minimum payout to what ever they want (because you agreed into their TOS). And if your balance is high and their minimum payout has been set high enough you will never see a cent. i asked back and since then i just get lame explanations and they try to threat me with that funny stuff : If you dont like it here we are happy to close down your account The next shady company?? 6
123RF / Is 123RF a hostage-taker ?« on: May 21, 2014, 02:59 »
Hi
I want to terminate my account and the last mail from them sounded a bit as if they would act as shady and dubious like many other so called "agencies" (Dreamstime eg) which make the process of termination so painfull that contributors leave their content online only because they do not want to spend a huge part of their lifetime with clicking "delete buttons". Thats the hostage-strategy. Does anyone have experience how a termination works with them? If it turns out that its a hostage-company i better ask my attorney to get that done. regards axel PS: and this term from their TOS makes the impression that 123RF is something quity shady complete: "Effect of Termination: Within a reasonable time after termination or expiration of this Agreement, 123RF shall delete all digital files representing the Accepted Images and withdraw the availability of such files for search and licensing from all Distributors databases and repositories. " Reasonable time...... aha...that sounds very much like something very crook to me 7
Shutterstock.com / flower-pics.com / legitimate partner of Shutterstock ??« on: May 01, 2014, 12:08 »
Hello,
does someone knows what that is and if its a "official" partner of SS? http://www.flower-pics.com/ (I am pretty sure that you will find your pictures there too - even if your work is not about flowers) And yes .... i realized that they just link ....and in the footer its sayed : " Images and data by Shutterstock" So there must be a kind of API / Partnerprogramm established by Shutterstock and i want to know how many "Partners" there are. I am not willing to let other people decide where my work is published and not even get informed that it is publsihed somewhere else. This at least is unethic and unprofessional (if not even more) regards axel 8
Shutterstock.com / Does SS gives your images into public domain??« on: April 30, 2014, 14:08 »
Can someone explain why i find my images here and what Shutterstock has to do with them?
http://www.publicdomainpictures.net/ "PublicDomainPictures.net is a repository for free public domain images. The pictures are free for you to use and you should feel good about doing so." 9
General Stock Discussion / Photaki - the next crook?« on: April 30, 2014, 05:37 »
Since that DP / Shotshop-scandal we had a look to agencies we had contact in the past and what shell i say - we found the next one you should have a very close look at.
www.photaki.com Although we cancelled our account in June 2013 they still sell our images. And on top - they locked us out of our account Here is the link to our port: http://www.photaki.es/fotografo/rightlight The next "agency" you better should put under surveilance 10
Shutterstock.com / The next nightmare comes true. Release needed for tatoo« on: April 16, 2014, 11:59 »
Hi,
4 weeks ago one of my employees made that joke and the whole team were laughing their heads of: "Wait a while - soon SS will ask for a PR of the tatoo-artist if you shoot a portrait and the person has a tatoo." Oh boy - what a laughter.... You should never make jokes like that............ Rejected: "TATTOOS-We require a property release from the tattoo artist for all prominent tattoos" Example: http://www.axellauer.de/wp-content/uploads/slider-paula-mandy.jpg And for this one i have to send you 12 PRs??? http://www.axellauer.de/wp-content/uploads/slider-anna-just.jpg What comes next....?? PR from Dolce & Gabana if a model wears a D&G coat? Oh no, i am sure it will be like this: You need a PR from the farmer who owns the sheep D&G made that coat from the model wears on your shooting. Thats the future. Strange that its always SS which makes these "special" rules. Why dont they invent something useful instead? BTW: I heard there will be a new agency with 90% split for the photographers in the first year and not less than 75% forever , no subsystem and you set your price yourself and they have a big print-company in the background as financial sponsors. Does anyone knows more about that? --- admin edit: updated title 11
Mostphotos.com / Severe Bug« on: April 16, 2014, 06:29 »
Hi,
usually the process is like this: 1: FTP Upload 2: Edit your images and sort them into editorial / commercial 3: Click on "publish" Now i found hundreds of images online wich i have not published yet!! I just uploaded them via FTP - thats all! If you upload editorials they seem to go online directly and as commercials - and this might cause a lot of legal trouble. Axel BTW: Yesterday the Website was down because of "maintenance" EDIT We wrote a mail to Mostphotos where we told them that they publish without waiting that the images are tagged and that we have send a supportrequest regarding that issue yesterday Supporter Hanna wrote back that the tech-teem got informed and that they did not get the supportrequest we sended the day before. We wrote back: Quote Hi Hanna, And now second supporter wrote: Quote Regarding commercial and editorial images. It is the photographer's responsibility to ensure that the images are tagged correctly. If you as a photographer have editorial images, you can add and tag this in the Media Cloud in your settings. Regarding legal issues, it is the photographer who is responsible for their own photos, not the buyer or Mostphotos. we wrote back: Quote Hi, I am speechless. 12
Pond5 / Video Upload fubar« on: March 19, 2014, 10:34 »
Since days nothing else than bugs, bugs,bugs,
If that goes on like that P5 is the next agency that kicks the bucket... There's been a problem processing some of your recent uploads. 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Pond5 / From now on...P5 as absurd as Istockphoto.« on: March 18, 2014, 07:06 »
Hi,
I was a great fan of P5. But now they become as absurd and irrational as IS or SS if it comes to rejection reasons. 1000 images of a Carnival and almost all photos show different subjects. 80% rejected and guess why.... Yes.... that famous and nuts "We can not accept similars" stuff. In Comparison: Depositphoto: 96% Acceptance Rate Shutterstock: 85% Acceptance Rate Oh Boy...P5 seems to be the next one going down 14
DepositPhotos / Woman Big Tits ??« on: January 05, 2014, 11:43 »
@depositphotos
you should at least correct the german version (saying "Woman Big Tits lying with empty textspace" / "Frau Grosse Titten liegend mit leeren textfreiraum ": http://de.depositphotos.com/30294109/stock-photo-Woman-big-breast-lying-with-empty-copy-space.html thats offending and sexism! Its hard enough to explain "Non-Models" the concept of stockphotography And its not helpful if you try to explain that it is safe to upload to a stockegency and that they do not use images in a dubios way and then you start your browser, open up Depositphotos and stumble upon headlines which look like cheap porn-spam. not convincing though. 15
Shutterstock.com / FTP upload gone foobar« on: January 01, 2014, 11:39 »
After uploading 20 clips 17 of them have 0 byte.
Did it again = other clips from that batch have 0 byte What the he.ll are they doing there? 16
Pond5 / Changes in their digestion of editorials?« on: December 27, 2013, 13:18 »
Hi,
does someone knows anything about changes in their policy or submission-system regarding editorials? Since twoday they seem to reject editorials if they do not have modelreleases - paradox! Note of a reviewer: "No model/property release on file for this clip; may be suitable for editorial (news and documentary) usage only." If that's the case, please indicate it in the Note to Curator and resubmit your file" Since there is no way to mark images / clips as editorial in the submission process and you probably can not send a message to a reviewer before you upload and submit it looks like they expect you to upload every batch a second time. I am a real fan of Pond5 - hopefully they dont start to become as inconsistent and unreliable like others. regards axel 17
Dreamstime.com / TIFF in 120 MB resolution sold and earned only 35 Cent ??« on: November 16, 2013, 10:06 »
Hi
we found a subscription-sale (Resolution TIFF) in our stats - earning 35 Cent . Now we had a look on the frontend and the only Resolution we could find is this one: TIFF 5295x7942px (120.3 MB) 44.8cm x 67.2cm@300 dpi Does that mean that DT sells your stuff for peanuts in a resolution so that any buyer could print your images on squaremeters of canvas? regards axel 18
Shutterstock.com / Bugstock / Shutterbug or what?« on: October 07, 2013, 13:09 »
Website completly down for a long time some days ago, always trouble with CSV and now its not possible to delete rejected photos.
1: Go to your backend and choose rejected 2: scroll down and click on "show all rejected photos" 3: try to click the red cross for "delete" with any image all red crosses lead to: http://buz</div%3E%3C/td%3E%3Ctd%20align=center%3E%C2%A0%3Ca%20href= oh boy... did they let their interns practice some coding? 19
General Stock Discussion / Where to buy !! images?« on: September 17, 2013, 01:58 »
Hi ,
we need to buy a bigger bulk of images for our customers and we dont like to support the worst exploitators. What agency has the best compromise between good material online and good royalties for the photographer? We do not mind to pay more than the usual "mean 30 cent" regards axel 20
iStockPhoto.com / Buzz of Istock !!« on: May 23, 2013, 13:51 »
Thats a kind of an open Letter because we decided to give IS the axe.
We are not willing to work with people who try their best to sink the boat Why....? Amongst all these latest scandals the last thing which annoyed thehell out of me was this and what can be asked as "Is IS selling images although they know that they do not have a correct MR??" Here we go. I uploaded around 100 images of a shooting with one model. After uploading files and MR I realised that the MR was the wrong one !!! We informed IS like this: Quote Dear Misses N... We informed them that they do not have a proper MR and that they are not allowed to publish these images. They said Quote Hi Alex, We replied: Quote Hello K., Today we got two different informations 1: Many of these files have been published. Quote Hello Rightlight-Berlin 2: A mail in many cases regarding these images that these files can not been published because of incomplete MR Quote Dear Axel Lauer Perfect , we thought. Finally they realized that they are not permitted to publish these files and they delete or deactivate them Great But i was wrong. We replied like this to their last mail Quote Thats great because we informed you more than once that we dont allow you to publish these files. And now guess what happened??? Read yourself what IS ansered: Quote Hi Axel, Maybe i should inform the model that IS sells without having a proper release and with the perfect knowledge about missing MR and watch how IS is been kicked its ass. But we all (my employees and me too) are so pissed about that "company" that we decided to give them the axe.. Here is our "farewell-mail" to them.. Quote I dont need to deactivate because you stated that images with incomplete MRs are not allowed to be published on istock. 21
Yaymicro / Does YAY reprocess your images??« on: May 18, 2013, 10:34 »
Hi ,
we just noticed that a many of our images does look on their site about 1 - 2 stops darker than ... a: on other stocksites b: on our site c: on our calibrated systems They look horrible -strange colours, much to dark.....just b.... Compare yourself: Yay http://www.yaymicro.com/portfolio.action?search.offset=0&search.limit=50&search.numResults=1302&search.filterExplicit=false&search.sort=date&search.advanced=true Deposit http://de.depositphotos.com/portfolio-2062725.html?14cnnz We always develop images , export them and then load them up to agencies. Means i can say that it is not a error on our site. Do you have an idea what could have happened ? regard axel 22
iStockPhoto.com / Bullied by Istock??« on: April 24, 2013, 14:57 »
Hi everybody,
i just experience a very interesting encounter with Misses K. N. from Istock. It started with one of these weird rejections you normaly get only with little agencies (MR for a flower-bouquet or PR for a governmental building etc...). I answered with a critique and suddenly Misses N. found some "Issues" in my profile and now it seems like she is searching desperate for a reason to get me kicked out . And it seems like she tries that in a way that noboy can say its censorship against photographers who are not willing to shut up with every thing they do. She digged very deep for a reason and now they suspect me that i upload images which are not mine. Of course i only upload images which are made by myself. They come across with the argument that with companys (i run a company - but that does not mean necessarily that i upload images as a company) it might be a bit tricky. Quote Istock: "Since iStockphoto is really set up to deal with single photographers, it is a bit tricky to work with a company that may employ several photographers or artists." I answered: "-All required fields in the profile-section of your backend are filled out. -I dont hire other photographers. -All images are made by myself. " If i am right with my "feeling" its one of the most unserious behaviors i encountered in 35 years of businesslife. I really hope that this is just a severe misunderstanding and to clearify that i invite Misses K.N to give her statement here. regards axel Lauer. www.axellauer.de 23
PhotoDune / PD - Most absurd rejects ever« on: February 22, 2013, 04:37 »
Hello everybody
probably you face the same absurd rejects with PD the wa did. After i tried to get some reliable advices or rules from them and all tries failed because they only answer with empty phrases all my amployees told me to give PD the axe but i always believethat people are reasonable and fair and so i tried and tried - withot any results. How do you cope with these absurd situation?? Lets face rhe facts: PD rejects obviosly public buildings (churches, cathedrals, governmental buildings etc) with the argument that you need a PR. PD rejects pictures like these ( http://www.axellauer.de/photodune-rejects/ )because of missing MR , at the same time they accept pictures like these ( ) and i am sure that the photographer has no MRs PD rejects a image of a flower bouquet with the reason that you need a MR (!!!) and accepts another image from the same situation (just the crop and the perspective is slightly different. All in all you can say that they prrof with every single upload that they havent got the faintest idea what they do and (this is the most upsetting thing) they are not willing to provide photographers with reliable rules or train their reviewers. We replied in their forum like that (just one part and you can read the whole locked post here (maybe they will delete it because they are no fans of democratic structures) Quote
After some "kind but empty phrases of an Mod" we had to answer like this: Quote Hi there at first i want to say that this is your plattform and therefore you have the rights to set up any rule you like however they are. Like mentioned before: This is the most stupid "review-situation" we had under all (meanwhile) 40 agencies we work with and every day it becomes worse with PD. Shall i give them more chances or give them the axe?? What do you think?? Did you ever made the experience of fair conversation with PD ? Regards axel BTW: Now they proofed that they have a understanding of democracy which is definitelly more "J.Edgar Hoover-style" than what we europeans call democracy. Not only that our posts are locked - our posts have been deleted with strange reasons and we are banned from their forum. They obviously dont like critic! 24
Mostphotos.com / All albums gone ?« on: February 20, 2013, 05:51 »
If i am right then all albums are gone.
Is that the same in your accounts? Do they really expect that i go through almost 3.000 images and do that work again?? If its really like that i leave mostphoto regards A. EDIT The albums are still visible in the frontend but im not able to add new pictures to albums because you cant reach them over the backend 25
Mostphotos.com / What a crappy coding.....« on: February 19, 2013, 11:50 »
Oh boy, my 12 year old son can do that better....
1: If i filter the "Mediacloud" by Unpublished it says 1800 pictures (thats not possible because i only uploaded 150 new ones) 2: If i go to the section "Publish" (looks like the new darkroom) it says "You have nothing to publish" Who coded that crap? Franz Kafka? Has somebody a hint? Regards A.
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