Aren't you supposed to be a copyright OWNER to sell prints on FAA??

Under the "Terms Of Use"
"Content Posted On The Site"
c.  By posting any Content to the public areas of the Website, you hereby grant to FineArtAmerica.com the non-exclusive, fully paid, worldwide license to use, publicly perform and display such Content on the Website.  This license will terminate at the time you remove such Content from the Website.  You represent and warrant that: (i) you own the Content posted by you on the Website or otherwise have the right to grant the license set forth in this section, and (ii) your Content does not violate the privacy rights, publicity rights, copyright rights, or other intellectual property rights of any person.  You agree to pay for all royalties and fees owing any person by reason of any Content you post on the Website.

d. The following is a partial list of the kind of Content that is illegal or prohibited on the Website..............
   v. promotes an illegal or unauthorized copy of another person's copyrighted work, such as providing          pirated computer programs or links to them, providing information to circumvent manufacture-installed copy-protect devices, or providing pirated music or links to pirated music files;

I guess the answer is yes, but the keyword is "have the right to grant license" which may be considered the Getty contract.

Getty does the same thing on Zazzle.  I assume they might be on some of the other POD sites as well.

http://www.zazzle.com/prophoto

They don't appear to give credit to the photographer, unless I'm missing something.

I thankfully deleted my port there over a year ago and am so thankful I did. The morals behind this company are so questionable which was why I left. I really find it hard to believe that Getty only got $60.00 a pop for these images. This company is based on GREED. Why would they put top selling images on Goggle to be downloaded for free if they weren't making a huge profit. Some of you figured at $60.00 a pop that's about $360,000.00 based on 6000 images. Getty is a huge company and $360,000.00 isn't much money in their eyes for a long term deal like Google. Then if they paid everyone their share of $12.00, then that puts their profit at $288,000.00. I don't think they would do that for such a low amount of money. We'll probably never see the contract to know what they really were paid for these images.

I really feel for you contributors that depend on this income for a living. Your really stuck between a rock and a hard place and iStock has you by the balls. I really believe this is probably why the majority of these images are exclusives. I know there is a count going on here as far as how many images will be deleted on Feb 2nd, which is really a small amount, but there are many contributors out there that don't post on forums that are or have already deleted their images to protect what is left. The number is probably higher than you think.

I feel that deactivating images is a good idea, but I see some mentioning they are deactivating the ones that are non sellers. How does that protect your images? Getty isn't going to put an image that hasn't sold on Google, only the sellers which Google would want. They are probably still supplying images as we speak, so as some have mentioned they are deactivating their best sellers and model released images.

Even for those of us that have port elsewhere are effected by this, and even those that don't plan to leave because they think it is better for them that a bunch of you are leaving. Put simply, if you were a customer, and saw an image you liked, but then saw one on the Google Drive that might be as good but is free....wouldn't you go for the free one? It effects us all. Think about it.

I left them all except Shutterstock about a year ago. Just got tired of all the BS. Found a better way to make money off my hard earned work.

It does take a lot of time. You have to deal with the lighting issues. Those unexpected shots that you can't sit there and figure out what the camera settings need to be in a split second. Then there are all those people in the audience that think they are the photographer snapping shots at the same time (even though you ask them not to) and then you have the problem of ghosting. You can't exactly stop the bride and say...heh you need a little powder on your forehead because we are getting a reflection while she is walking down the isle. Wedding photography is in my opinion one of the hardest to do, simply because it's a once in a life time moment and there is no going back to re shoot the shot if it doesn't work out right. I've only done three weddings, two were small but the third was fairly large. After the third, I don't want to do it ever again.

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Just my own reaction, but... I lost interest in Zazzle not because of the microscopic number of sales, but because the process of creating new products (and multiple stores) was so tedious and time-consuming.  They'd need to greatly streamline their site and process before I'd spend any more time.

It can be tedious but once you get a lot on there then the income does keep coming. I haven't contributed anything for awhile and my income keeps going up. I usually use the ones I already have on there and just hit customize to create another item similar and it creates a new item, it doesn't edit the other one. It already has the keywords so it doesn't take much.

I personally have separate stores. For me it's easier to keep track of things and from a customer point of view it's easier for them to find what they want if the stores are specialized. It takes awhile to start making sales because the products start at the bottom and have to work their way up. Once I made it to Pro status the sales picked up. The more you have to offer the more likely you'll have sales.

I'm just happy I deleted my port there.... Sounds like the same ol same ol...messing up the books for their benefit so you don't know what's yours or theirs. As long as it's messed up they ain't gotta pay and it's money in their pocket...it's called cash flow....lol

Dang... how long have you had your Pro Seller status? 

I don't remember...I guess that means for awhile.....  
No really I think it's been a little over 6 months now I really don't know for sure.

Best movie of all time...in my opinion is "Last of the Mohicans"  If you love photography you'd love the beauty of the scenes. It's filmed in mountain region of North Carolina and after I went to this area I feel in love with it and try to go back camping every year. If you've never seen it I highly recommend it. You can see it on Netflix...

Quote from: donding on June 18, 2012, 12:46

I had disabled all my files except two of them. I haven't uploaded to them for over a year or a year and a half. I requested my payout and now it won't let me disable the final two files. It keeps saying disable limit reached on the first file. I can't even disable one file. Anyone know if they don't let you disable if you request final payout. I'm tired of stock and am moving on to bigger and better things. I'm slowly getting all my ports deleted...except Shutterstock which I actually make money off of so will keep it. Anyone know what the deal is with just disabling two files?

Did you upload the two files more than six months ago? If not, there is only a certain percentage of files that you can disable. If the files are older than six months, you should be able to disable them, but you might want to leave them anyway until you get your payout. Once you get paid, if you don't want the account at all, you could just have customer service close the account. I don't think the disabling of files is related to the payout, but I could be wrong.

I haven't uploaded to them in over a year and it was about three or four months ago that I disabled all the other files but those two. They have both been on there for over two years. I don't know what the deal is, but I got a feeling I'll have to ask them to disable them.

I had disabled all my files except two of them. I haven't uploaded to them for over a year or a year and a half. I requested my payout and now it won't let me disable the final two files. It keeps saying disable limit reached on the first file. I can't even disable one file. Anyone know if they don't let you disable if you request final payout. I'm tired of stock and am moving on to bigger and better things. I'm slowly getting all my ports deleted...except Shutterstock which I actually make money off of so will keep it. Anyone know what the deal is with just disabling two files?