I put my name in the author field, my site's URL in the Copyright Info URL, the status is Copyrighted and � 2014 Jo Ann Snover in the copyright notice field.

Some sites strip all of that out (and for various reasons it has been explained that this isn't a violation under DMCA but it still seems wrong to me) but none have rejected files with that in it.

One of my biggest concerns is many agencies have all these partner sites and no credit is given to the contributor at all. It seems important to be credited for your contribution. At the very least they should have your copyright info posted. My wife emailed one (I don't remember which one) but they said copyright was given to person who bought the image. This does not seem acceptable though. Copyright should be with the image on their web site.

Thanks for the responses and support. Sean - I am sure I have not done enough research but I have been able to track my sales and my wife has always been a non-exclusive so I have had some ability to compare. Your article was enormously helpful and I appreciate it.

I noticed on your portfolio page you have depositphotos. Does the discussion here about their recent subscription deal worry you?

Also have you seen this presentation on youtube about the current state of the microstock industry by Bob Davies?

<a href="http://youtu.be/42lJ7eri984" target="_blank" class="aeva_link bbc_link new_win">http://youtu.be/42lJ7eri984</a>