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Anyone having the same issue? It seems to only happen with editorial photos... Yesterday spent couple of hours to put dates in my captions and today all editorial photos rejected with "File Transfer Error -- Please check your file and resubmit."
Makes me want to cry  :-\

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iStockPhoto.com / PP started for December - finally!
« on: January 28, 2014, 16:17 »
PP started for December. Good luck!  ;)

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General Stock Discussion / RF/Editorial/RM/Unacceptable for stock
« on: December 15, 2013, 14:57 »
Hi,

I always have many problems, when deciding whether I should put my photo to standard RF or Editorial collection. Some sites like 123RF make it easy and make that selection for me. But as the result of different approaches by different sites I have many images on one site as Standard RF, on the other as Editorial RF. Is it ok like that? I do not put any image as RF on one site, when it is RM on the other, this thing is clear. I take mostly travel photos(nature, architecture, etc.) and some of the buildings are protected by Intellectual Property Rights and sometimes happens I am not aware of it. For example I took a photo of Atomium in Belgium. Some sites rejected these images, some took them as Standard RF and some as Editorial. Recently I have found these two pages about image restrictions:
http://www.shutterstock.com/buzz/legal/stock-photo-restrictions
http://wiki.gettyimages.com/

Shutterstock says:

The Atomium
Located in Brussels, Belgium.
The building is a large model structure of an iron molecule.
Unacceptable for editorial or commercial use.

Istock/Getty says:

Located in Brussels and built for the 1958 Brussels World Fair (Expo 58) the Atomium monument is a representation of a unit of iron crystal.
Imagery of the Atomium should be avoided in Royalty-Free content.
The Atomium may, however, be featured in Editorial content.

If I base my knowledge on what Istock/Getty says it is ok having photos of Atomium as Editorial, but not as Standard RF and I have my Atomium photos distributed under both licensing. What does it mean for me as a photographer? Can I have any problems because of it? Some of the stock sites have in their agreements that photographer is the one responsible for his content and any legal issues that may it cause. On the other hand I have read some articles saying that the one that should be aware of these legal issues is the publisher, not the photographer. How it is in a reality? These days I have nightmares, because I have sold on Pixmac an extended RF license of my photo showing Atomium itself.  :-\

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I decided to try Moneybookers/Skrill as a payment option and opened Skrill account with base currency EUR. I made support ticket to Fotolia to change my payout currency from PLN to EUR as I wanted to get most of my new Skrill account and MasterCard in EUR they offer. Unfortunately I got a negative response that they are not able to do anything, because of a zone I originally registered my account, in my case Poland. In the same time I discovered quite shocking thing, how differently we are paid because of their "zones". As you know, on Fotolia we earn credits, which  with a payout are converted by their rates to our zone currency. Have a look at my research:

Currency------1 credit price----------exchange rate---------credit price in USD

JPY zone------1 credit=150 JPY------JPY/USD=0,011-------1,650USD
EUR zone-----1 credit=1 EUR--------EUR/USD=1,329------1,329USD
GBP zone-----1 credit=0,75 GBP-----GBP/USD=1,563------1,172USD
SEK zone-----1 credit=7,10 SEK-----SEK/USD=0,152------1,079USD
USD zone-----1 credit=1 USD--------USD/USD=1-----------1,000USD
KRW zone----1 credit=1100 KRW----KRW/USD=0,0009----0,990USD
PLN zone-----1 credit=3 PLN---------PLN/USD=0,313-------0,939USD
ZAR zone-----1 credit=7,5 ZAR------ZAR/USD=0,107------0,802USD

My rates are based on Bloomberg average from max/min rates from 52wk range.

What does it mean for us? For the same hard work we are paid so differently. Let's say we have 1000 credits accumulated. Guys from Japan will get 1650 USD, while ones from South Africa only 802 USD and me from Poland 939 USD :( Got extremely upset... Solution? Go for a trip to Japan and open a new account  ;) (It is not a joke, I was told by Fotolia support to do this if I want to be paid in different currency)

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Hi

I am from Poland. I have just finished my BSc and probably I will go soon to live in the UK for several months and also planning to enroll for a master course somewhere in the UK. I do microstock and pay taxes here in Poland(without being self-employed), but I would like to start my Symbiostock site so that I should registered a company/self-employment. I have read HMRC website and in my opinion registering as a sole trader in the UK could be a good idea(better than doing it in Poland). From what I have read there is no problem to do it as I am EU citizen, but I need to provide UK address. For sure I will rent a room. Let's say that I register as a sole trader on this address. What happens if I move to another flat? I like travel photography, after finishing my studies I would like to travel around the world. Can I stay being sole trader in the UK without having any address there? Does HMRC send anything to a physical address? To be clear, I would like to pay taxes online in the UK both on Symbiostock and microstock income and try it full-time. A part from that I will have to pay NI class 2 and will get a British pension if I live long enough :), am I right? Still don't know what to do with an insurance... How is it with NHS? Is it all a good idea?

Karol

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