>>The Agefotostock link that Morphart posted above. It details the requirements for becoming a contributor there. Strange requirements indeed... I wonder how anyone gets accepted!<<

age fotostock seems to have been in business more than 30 years and have offices in different cities of the world, obviously they may have been doing something correctly, or maybe all the photographers that work with them are a bunch of masochists. So you are wondering about matters that you don�t know well.

I�m one of photographers, I�m not a masochist, and on top they do a pretty professional job for me and on top they have a private social area that rocks. You need to be one of their photographers though, but they respond, clarify and help technically. 

**Basically it's a lengthy process. You contact them, then you need to print and sign contracts. then send DVDs of your portfolio that you want online to them by mail along with the contract.**

I�m with them and while they accept DVD�s, in case that they run into a senile shooter, the best option is FTP or HD�s if you send a ton of images that I doubt you have.

>>Then they get to the system, have to be selected, once selected they are processed and once processed and if the files are OK they are sent over to be sold on the web...<<

I find great that they edit my images.

>>...and then you need to choose 2 categories and few other tick box for each of your images and submit them to await keywording approval (your IPTC data is read but they ask to choose 2 category)<<

This is surreal if it was not wrong. You only need to add a category when you send video clips, otherwise your IPTC only needs "Description" and "Keywords" as simple. You don�t need to go your area there if you don�t want to.

The photographer never claimed he had the MR for the Greek guy picture. This pictures is sold under RM licence without MR and it is clearly stated to buyers. The Swedish company used it in a wrong way. Or, maybe, the agency was suposed to explain it to them?

How do you know? This image was sold apparently in 2001 or 2002 I'm not sure, but certainly it was not sold last week, thus what do you know what the photographer said then? What is being said today is irrelevant. There are factual things that we don�t know in this case...