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Off Topic / Re: Pinterest anyone?
« on: May 10, 2012, 21:14 »
Technical and legal details aside, the bottom line is:
The business model of sites like Pinterest is to use the content of creatives to make a lot of money and pay the creatives nothing.

A movement - powered by forces with a lot of money to spend (money made by using the content of creatives and not paying for it) - is out to destroy intellectual property rights. If that movement succeeds, we creatives won't get paid anymore. 

I think it's more like this - we all go back to shooting assignments and only the very best shooters can make a living doing that. I think it's much harder to be a successful assignment shooter than a stock shooter, there is simply way more to the whole process. Dealing with the client is the biggest difference, you can do whatever you like in stock and not really have to deal with others opinions and demands.

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Off Topic / Re: Pinterest anyone?
« on: May 10, 2012, 21:12 »
Seriously - you can't reliably sell something that can't reliably be controlled. Why do you think Adobe is migrating all of its programs to an online hosted subscription model?

Because they can actually control them there. That's why. Give it 5-10 years and it will be very rare to find locally installed Adobe programs I guarantee it.

you mean doing something like the games sold on Steam for instance and needing an authentication in a remote server to play or run the app ?
yes, it's called SaS (software as a service), which is the oldest way of computing by the way, the oldest mainframe were run on a "time share" basis or "flat rates" for instance... Bill Gates and Paul Allen were coding on terminals connected to DECs paying by the hour in the '70s.

problem is, i'm still skeptic about applying this logic to apps like Photoshop or Lightroom and i'm in good company.
if they want to kill the whole concept of offline desktop applications they better think twice before making bold moves.

one thing is stuff like Evernote, another whole thing is Photoshop, and imagine being stuck with Lightroom with no web connection and no way to run the program or save your photos ... !

5-10 yrs for the death of the desktop ? yeah but only for things like email, IM, social networks, browsing, bookmarking, sharing, and small stuff, not certainly for Autocad, Photoshop, 3D Studio .... now everybody is hiping about Cloud computing but it's a fad unless you're into storage, for the desktop user is still no big deal, and yet again it's a concept 40 yrs old so what the F.. is the fuss all about ? you call it cloud i call it grid or cluster or just datacenter with virtualization ... 

It might not be popular, but I can see this still happening anyways. You'll get a bargain to stay online, pay a huge premium to put it on your local machine. There is also the unique twist of eventual remote super computing for graphics pros. Imagine editing 4K video in Premier on you tablet sitting at a park bench while a super computer in Japan does all the heavy lifting. I'd pay for that!

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Off Topic / Re: Pinterest anyone?
« on: May 10, 2012, 21:09 »
That is exactly why I don't agree with Pininterest and similars - they aid in devaluing my work by spreading it around, making it less controllable, less exclusive etc. On top of that at some point they will start earning money off it by monitizing the traffic which is driven by our content, and they ain't going to share a penny of it with us.

You could always find a way to monetize something like Pinterest. From what I understand, online stores are the one really making any money off it since it's overwhelmingly a place to pin photos from online clothing sites, etc... I've never EVER associated Pinterest with photography, just womens crafts and fashion.

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General Stock Discussion / Interesting Article on Stock
« on: May 10, 2012, 12:14 »
One of the best articles I've seen on selling-stock.

http://www.selling-stock.com/Article/broken-promises-and-stock-photography

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Off Topic / Re: Pinterest anyone?
« on: May 10, 2012, 01:37 »
So who forced the content providers to put their stuff out in a public venue where they can freely be taken?
If something is in public and you weren't forced to put it there it can be freely taken?  Interesting principle, now where do you park your car?

exactly.
i heard this lame excuse a million times.

even Photoshop CS6 can be downloaded in a couple clicks from Pirate Bay but it doesnt mean it's legal or Adobe's fault.
it's still just theft, pure and simple.

I own air, your breathing it, now pay me.

Seriously - you can't reliably sell something that can't reliably be controlled. Why do you think Adobe is migrating all of its programs to an online hosted subscription model?

Because they can actually control them there. That's why. Give it 5-10 years and it will be very rare to find locally installed Adobe programs I guarantee it.

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Off Topic / Re: Pinterest anyone?
« on: May 10, 2012, 01:34 »
If something is in public and you weren't forced to put it there it can be freely taken?  Interesting principle, now where do you park your car?

Yep.  Don't leave your phone lying out anywhere, either.

Did you park it with the door opened and the keys in the ignition?

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Off Topic / Re: Pinterest anyone?
« on: May 09, 2012, 11:36 »
So which of your "pins" do you not hold copyright to, to be able to reproduce and redistribute like Pinterest allows you to?

So who forced the content providers to put their stuff out in a public venue where they can freely be taken?

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iStockPhoto.com / Think Stock Earnings Reporting
« on: May 06, 2012, 17:58 »
Are you're Thinkstock earnings being reported on the same 1099 as Istock? Just curious... Thanks!

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Like the ones that say, Federal Reserve Notes aren't money and other off the wall fringe factions.


They aren't.... they are Federal Reserve Notes. Look back at what money had written on them prior to the unconstitutional switch to fiat Federal Reserve Notes:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/SilverCertificate1Dollar.jpg

"Silver Certificate" - AKA warehouse receipt, redemption note, etc... You could exchange the paper for the *actual* money it represented. Our constitution has not changed with respect to what is and isn't money. Federal Reserve Notes are not money, and they never have been money. Like many other things - money is one of those areas where the government knowingly breaks the constitution instead of changing it because they know that the public will never go along with it. They just do it anyways and try to fool the public into thinking its fine, then they get the courts to go along with the BS.


sigh
http://fauxcapitalist.com/2011/04/30/the-u-s-constitution-doesnt-say-money-should-be-gold-or-silver-coin/

I know that it blows some people's mind when they realize that money has no intrinsic value, but wait for it, gold also has no (well actually very little) intrinsic value too. Most of its worth is down to the fact that we have collectively agreed to use it as tender, so there is a very high demand for it (ignoring the few actual uses it has in electronics and so on, as these account for very little of its worth). There are many minerals as rare or rarer that command nothing like the value.

Of course FRNs work the same way, if everyone woke up and said "hey, we don't want these pieces of paper" well yeah they'd be worthless, same with gold ("what use is this gaudy metal stuff anyway?"). It's a lot to wrap your brain around I know, but fundamentally it is how legal concepts work, they for the most exist by a consensus of opinion. What is murder or theft for example? they don't have an objective definition, they are defined by the wording of the law and consensus of opinion. What is murder one day may be self defense the next (see stand your ground law), or justice when the state does it (death penalty)

If you want to devalue faith in the US currency, go for it, but I struggle to see why anyone in the US would want to do it. I can see why others would. If  you want Russia's propagandized take on it just watch a bit of economic reporting on RT, Max Kaiser's got a real hard on for destroying the Dollar.


The value in gold is that it is an actual commodity and there is a finite supply which creates a stable money supply. Stability is the most important factor, and the best way to get that stability is to use something that cannot be created or duplicated, but is still easily divisible. Another factor is that the market - not a gangster government - chose it to be the currency of the last 5,000 + years.

Regarding the legality, the linked article is interpreting the constitution incorrectly. First off, powers not delegated to the Federal Govt. and not prohibited to the states are expressly reserved for the States. Keep in mind that the US is a Union of independent sovereign states, AKA nations, countries, whatever you want to call them - the US is a Union of sovereign States, not a country... With that in mind, only gold and silver can be money in any state that has decided to be a part of the Union we call the United States.

Think about that for a bit, do FRN seem legit now? They aren't.

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Just to throw this out there, from a SS post:

Customers must indicate that the image is of a model and used for illustrative purposes only.

They also mention that sensitive use is already common at other agencies and you probably didn't even realize it. I always tell all my models that these uses are a possibility. So far no one has said no to modeling.

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I'm opted in apparently. The image had no way to identify the subject and it was fitness related.

In my opinion, there is no reason to opt out. Pictures get bought and used for all kinds of stuff regardless... microstock customers don't read the fine print and who on earth draws the line on sensitive use? Weight loss campaigns are sensitive to some, not to others. An add for tampons? Again... depends on your opinion.

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Like the ones that say, Federal Reserve Notes aren't money and other off the wall fringe factions.


They aren't.... they are Federal Reserve Notes. Look back at what money had written on them prior to the unconstitutional switch to fiat Federal Reserve Notes:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/SilverCertificate1Dollar.jpg

"Silver Certificate" - AKA warehouse receipt, redemption note, etc... You could exchange the paper for the *actual* money it represented. Our constitution has not changed with respect to what is and isn't money. Federal Reserve Notes are not money, and they never have been money. Like many other things - money is one of those areas where the government knowingly breaks the constitution instead of changing it because they know that the public will never go along with it. They just do it anyways and try to fool the public into thinking its fine, then they get the courts to go along with the BS.

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Read "Federal Mafia" if you want all the information on this - it is legit. Ron Paul has mentioned this a few times while talking to the news and several former IRS agents have researched it and come out against the IRS being illegal. This countries government is beyond corrupt.

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I got a $75 sale a week ago. Totally surprised me.

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Alamy.com / Re: Alamy has sold one image for over $100,000
« on: April 13, 2012, 13:06 »
I bet it was a picture of a piece of sod....

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Alamy.com / Re: Buggy Manager?
« on: April 12, 2012, 17:54 »
What are you talking about? This - Alamy Picture Manager Lightroom PlugIn? Or 'Alamy Picture Manager' in the management section?
What exactly doesn't work for you?

Pav

Their online tool. The saving changes feature is really buggy - sometimes it works, other times it just totally fails.

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Alamy.com / Buggy Manager?
« on: April 12, 2012, 14:36 »
I'm using the Alamy photo manager today, and I've been getting really spotty performance when saving data. Sometimes it just doesn't save at all or takes forever. Anyone else having this issue?

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia Purchases WiLogo
« on: March 19, 2012, 22:36 »
...for professionals who are trying to make a living, this is slavery.

I hate to do it, but I have to point out the obvious similarity here between how we're regarding this logo site and how many people regard microstock. I believe many photographers have, in fact, referred to microstock as slavery.

I think microstock can even be considered "spec work" by most definitions. It's work being done without any guarantee of compensation, or only yields very little compensation in some cases.

I'm not saying that these things are the same. Lots of people (me included) make a living in microstock while I have yet to hear of anyone making a living from design contests. But at the root of the business, microstock is sort of speculative, and to some it is professional slavery.

Were talking about one shot at selling one creation to one person. Microstock is speculative, but we have thousands of possible buyers - not one. That's a huge difference between the two. Microstock is no different than a company that makes jeans and sells them, or any other product.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Fotolia Purchases WiLogo
« on: March 19, 2012, 14:58 »
I bet this whole concept will shrivel up and die on its own, unless they modify it. Perhaps designers could submit rough sketch concepts and have them chose from that. Then it's less risky for the designers.

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I think this is more of an attempt to get the government to stay the heck out of their business. They create a mechanism, send tons of letters ect... and then argue the government can go get lost.

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Won't work. They can just switch providers, and I guarantee you providers will be very reluctant to actually cut off paying customers, furthermore, they can always just connect to the web and then use a VPN to totally blackout what they do.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Stock images on "pirate sites"
« on: March 15, 2012, 01:03 »
Just took a look at these sites, they are utterly useless to a real stock photo buyer. They are basically blog format.... with lousy search function.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Pinterest finding a loophole ?
« on: March 13, 2012, 21:21 »
Get over it guys. My goodness... don't want your image "pinned"? Take it offline. It's like listening to people complain about their car being stolen even though they left it running with the keys in the ignition in a bad part of town, with all the doors unlocked and left wide open.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Stock images on "pirate sites"
« on: March 13, 2012, 21:16 »
If it's what I think it is, it's probably all in Chinese and totally useless to a non-speaker with a deadline to meet.

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I think the big lesson here is A.) were all "copy-cats", even if we don't know it.... and B.) Be the first one to the market, when the market is ready for you stuff.

May the best man or woman win.

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