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iStockPhoto.com / Re: moving away from istock.
« on: January 02, 2011, 20:38 »
thanks for all the replies.  great information, i'll still consult support.

i am doing a clean break, all people pics to rm.  some of my stuff has sold rf but in very limited quantities.  like most peoples portfolios a few have sold multiple times but most have sold 0 times.  i have no plans to upload rejected istock content to my site and there won't be similars as all people pics are migrating and no consideration would be given to istock for future people pics.

i'll ask when i get the transition complete if i can stay exclusive on my generic files, if not i'll give up the crown. 

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iStockPhoto.com / Re: moving away from istock.
« on: January 02, 2011, 03:15 »
if i could do it over i wouldn't have went exclusive. of course i did it with far different data than exists now.   i did it just before feb. when the parameters were going to change to 500 downloads.  i removed my stuff from all other agencies and then istock makes all these changes that most contributors percieve to be negative.  

it pains me to think about re-uploading everywhere else, all that time and effort wasted because i believed what istock said the end of 2009.  its also a pain in the butt to delete all my people files but when you feel good about losing a dollar in sales because it prevents getty from making three dollars on your work it's time make changes. that time has come, i am just trying to figure the best option.

thanks for the replies so far.

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iStockPhoto.com / moving away from istock.
« on: January 02, 2011, 00:07 »
wondering if i could legally do this.  i am an istock exclusive with a portfolio that is 65% people and 35% stuff and my direction going forward is photographing 90% people.  i want to delete my people pics from istock and sell them on my personal site rights managed.  i have been holding back on uploading people pics and have a lot of fresh content that istock won't be getting because of the treatment of contributors/buyers from september on.

can a person stay rf exclusive for nature, scenery, and the like and have a rm personal site for different subject matter without breaching exclusive terms?  i've read the terms and i think i would be ok but wondering what you think?

if i have to quit exclusive for everything to do rm thats fine, i just don't want to give up the thousand or so dollars the scenery pics will bring me next year.

thoughts?

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