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iStockPhoto.com / Where can I see my sold photos?
« on: February 21, 2013, 10:00 »
It is very strange but I don't find where I can see a list of my sold images.
I can see only which one have been sold.
But I don't find any information about when, how much time, for what price, these images have been sold.

Can somebody help me, I am becoming crazy will all this sites that don't know what means simplicity and ergonomic

Thanks in advance

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123RF / No images in portfolio
« on: February 21, 2013, 02:13 »
A while after that I have uploaded a lot of photos on 123RF, and after that they have been accepted they did not appear in my portfolio.
So I have contacted 123RF that after somedays solved the problem.

Yesterday again I had no images in my portfolio.
But not only, no uploaded, no pending, no accepted and no rejected.
All disappeared

How to sell images if you have not a visible portfolio??

Is it always like this?

They promised to solve the problem in one week

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I had some email exchanges with Michael from Zoonar about this.
I must say that Michael is a very gentle and patient person, and I appreciate him for this.

On Zoomar when you choose RF as the kind of license for your images they are signed as RM/RF in the list, I have asked to Michel to explain me how an image can be RF and RM at the same time.
Michael answered me that the RM from Zoonar is a non-exclusive RM.

How can it be?
As I know the essence of RM is to be exclusive, to be sold to one customer in the way that a competitor cannot use the same image (and for this reason a RM image cannot be proposed as RF on other microstocks).

On the Zoomar site the images are marked as RM (default) or as RM/RF.
How can an image to be RM and RF at the same time, they are completely opposite kind of licenses if I have understood well.

Probably it is just a question of terminology from Zoonar using RM meaning something else.

Can somebody help me to clear this question?
What can be the real risk selling the same image under RM and RF license at the same time?

And of course I have invited Michael to participate to the discussion, as it can be an help for many of the forum's users.

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Print on Demand Forum / FineArt America and Google Images
« on: February 15, 2013, 09:08 »
I have been very surprised to day when I search for "my name" on google image.
All the photos that I have put on FAA appears in the first pages.
The photos are all 900 pixels large, and without any watermark.

If these images cannot be stollen to be used for printing that require high-resolution images (magazines, etc), they can be esaly stollen to be used on the web where a 900 pixels large size fits to 90% of the needs (blogs, news etc.)

I wrote to FAA to tell them that I find absolutely not normal, and not correct, that these images can be available to Google in such size and without watermark.

They very gently answer me that:
"I am afraid, if you wish your images removed from Google then you must take them off the internet or add them to a passworded folder.

Google is a search engine and it is how people find our art and where most customers come from.  Google searches all sites and grabs the images, with the link, for people to find when looking for art in that subject.  Whatever site you add your images to for sale will work in the same way.

The images Google have are the same images you are showing on your profile pages.  No larger.

We cannot stop Google from visiting one artist out of the whole site.

Unfortunately no site can protect work from thieves who are adamant on having an image that is on their page."


Of course I know how Google grabs images around, but images from other sites that you can find on Google are not so large and are marked with a watermark.

I know that the watermark on an image is not a very big material protection (it is very easy to remove), but it can be a moral protection, as images without a watermark could (can) be considered as free image for the most of the internet users.

So, what to do?

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