EmberMIke posted some great stuff there...

If they want you to take all the nine illustrations, I think they are serious about exclusivity.

I was wondering if the buyout will give them unlimited print run and unlimited electronic rights in addition to the exclusivity. If that was the case, If you added the price of all the extended licenses, you would come up with a number, then I would think of a number for the exclusivity on top of that. I think exclusivity "in perpetual" is worth much more than anything else.
Sadly, a lot of buyers coming from micro stock don't understand, but sometimes you get an art director, or a big company that don't mind paying what is worth.

I don't know what their buyer's expectations are....123 has an exclusive logo collection, but the graphics seem pretty iconic,  a single logo image is 250 credits...

so, this is just food for thought.

Sometimes you go to low and regret, other times you go to high and lose the sale...

I think you could make some good money since they want to buyout a lot of graphics.....

They replied back to you quickly LOL the power of twitter...

How easy or difficult is to delete an image?

On other sites, like shutter, and stock, I can delete easily...even on can stock...
however, I don't know about 123RF, and I am wondering what are their terms for deletion....
I  know some agencies will require the image to stay for like six months...

I don't know, I think they are always changing things...

But sales go down probably because if you don't constantly add content you get buried by the competition..I haven't added anything and it has been going down...

and also they are bringing so many new products, like cheese boards, ruler, tie bar, cookies and soooo many things...that is more products that people add with the quick create....So the marketplace is probably getting much bigger also because of that.

I was looking at the option to upload an image as "exclusive".
Are there benefits? Would these images be out of subs schemes, would they command a higher price or maybe better placement in the search?
just wondering here.

Seems to me all inspirations from an idea..
The products themselves are very generic, like the pumpkin....

Well
I tried searching by the name of the png...
and I found this site.
http://www.roopikahairstudio.com/

and where they sell the theme here:
http://www.wptemplate.com/latest-templates/orquidea.html

tinieye didn't work for me.

I always wondered about reviewers who work remotely, and guessing that the amount of files they have to go through is probably huge...much more then if they were a contributor....I wonder if they have to review the highest resolution images, larger files, and what this would take in terms of their internet bandwidth consumption...and everything.

This spam thing just reflects poorly on their company, I got one, and I hate unsolicited spam.

Do you ever check the "whois" registry to see who is behind a domain name? You would be surprised...

I guess nobody can claim exclusivity on a public domain image itself....However if you take that image and you re-draw in a different style then nobody would copy your own artistic interpretation.
They would have to pull the image from the Public domain to use as-is or do their own interpretation.

As for price I don't know, but you could research some agencies that sell Rights Managed licenses like Alamy and see how they price these usages.

So called fan art

According to what I have read on the internet fan art has many implications, one is copyright of the photographer, film maker, and other is right of publicity of the celebrity...

I remember was Cafepress in the past who actually made some licensing deals getting special permission for the store owners to create fan art, I remember seeing some from movies and shows.

Zazzle doesn't allow paintings of celebs, not even keywords that are trademarked, etc.

I had requests for cartoon illustration before, but didn't sell.
Removing the image from other sites, in some sites it shouldn't be difficult, they allow you to just delete...I think Istock and shutter are like that, but I don't know about the other sites.

The copyright sale...I also wondered if the clients know that the images where sold before, and may be out there, but I guess dreamstime has this covered in the agreement. But is it a sale of copyrights, or a sale of all rights with future exclusivity?

(sorry for digging up an old thread, but I didn't want to create a new one...)

I have been asked if I want to sell the rights of one image. I would like to set a high price (for example $3000) to see if I'm lucky.

What troubles me: I would have 72 hours to remove the image from all sites. What if I'm not able to do that? There are some sites, that doesn't allow user to remove files by themselves, for example Veer.

Also removing images from all reseller networks could take time, and almost impossible to verify if the images are deleted or not...

Have anyone succeeded in this?

That's a good question...
By the way when you say illustrations (29%) are these bitmap or vectors also?

Last year Shutterstock said that a total of 39% of downloads were illustrations (29%) or vectors (10%). Does anyone think that percentage has increased?