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Messages - bunhill
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« on: April 27, 2015, 14:18 »
Therefore if you are on the private property where that building is located it must be released from the Architect not the owner!
You are, simply, wrong. It is not a copyright issue. But if you have any doubts then I would advise you to contact Getty directly, or whoever you are with.
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« on: April 27, 2015, 13:16 »
If the property is a building like a house the owner doesn't count because whoever has the blueprints drawn up for the building is the only one who can sign a release, just because you own it doesn't mean you own the copyright to it. No. I have no idea what country you are in. But this is not the case in any European country I have ever lived and it is not the case in the USA according to www.copyright.gov. 120 . Scope of exclusive rights in architectural works
(a) Pictorial Representations Permitted.The copyright in an architectural work that has been constructed does not include the right to prevent the making, distributing, or public display of pictures, paintings, photographs, or other pictorial representations of the work, if the building in which the work is embodied is located in or ordinarily visible from a public place. The owner of a building is the person who would sign a property release. Not the architect. The point being that a property release in this context is a permission-thing rather than a copyright-thing. Therefore the copyright of the design is normally going to be irrelevant except where there are specific exceptions. Unlike the design of, say, furniture or cars. Also see: https://asmp.org
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« on: April 27, 2015, 09:15 »
Are we talking about $10, $100, $1000 or $10,000 per month ? Roughly.
we are talking about moving back in with my parents and I am almost 50 years old that is how bad my sales are this month 
Ok. Just don't play your music too loud. And no smoking dope in your bedroom.
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« on: April 27, 2015, 07:57 »
Are we talking about $10, $100, $1000 or $10,000 per month ? Roughly.
Previously around the middle of that range, now much lower. Roughly.
The median of the range $10 - $10,000 is $5,500 $5,005
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« on: April 27, 2015, 07:05 »
Are we talking about $10, $100, $1000 or $10,000 per month ? Roughly.
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« on: April 27, 2015, 03:35 »
You have $77.67 total balance but only $42.26 of that is cleared balance currently.
You will reach payout when your cleared balance is >$75.
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« on: April 27, 2015, 03:25 »
Thanks Bunhill, what if the property owners dont inform the new owners (by mistake or just being forgetful)?
In an extreme case that could potentially depend upon whether the previous owner had specifically signed a document stating that no other contracts were in place (which may typically be part of what is signed when selling ). There could potentially be trouble. But all countries are different. A court or tribunal might equally decide that a property release was not significant enough to matter. The owner signing a property release signs in their role as Owner. The contract remains valid even after someone else takes on the role of Owner. The same as company contracts remain valid even after new Directors and Executives are appointed.
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« on: April 27, 2015, 03:05 »
Short answer: yes.
The role of an advocate acting for the purchaser will typically include researching, amongst other things, any existing contracts which are in place and which relate to the property. The vendor also has a responsibility to disclose any existing contracts relating to the property. Anyone asking someone to sign a property release should make this clear to the person signing.
It may potentially not be the case in all countries. I only have experience of buying properties in two different countries.
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« on: April 25, 2015, 12:46 »
There are many companies online that don't sell anything but are valued at millions of dollars. All they have is people posting and discussing issues,nothing else.
Yes. But you need to understand some of the reasons why those companies achieve the values which they do. It certainly isn't based on the same relatively few people and their legacy forum posts. iStock is not that sort of business. iStock's legacy forum is never going to be an analytical measure of the value of the company. For example, unlike the few companies you might be thinking of, iStock is not about the forum. The forum is not what defines iStock. The forum is not the thing. A very few people have ever contributed to the forum. iStock is not a communications medium or a community forum which millions of people belong to.
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« on: April 25, 2015, 11:49 »
If they want the valutation and the money, they can make it look nice. even keeping them online and visible as is, would bring more value then deleting their whole online history.
Nothing wrong with building a new community centre. but I don't see why they need to lose valutation while doing it.
No value would be lost by them dumping a load of cliquey old forum posts. Nobody is buying old forum posts.
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« on: April 25, 2015, 08:41 »
The business case is simple: wall street places hundreds of millions of dollars of valuation on companies with communities even if they have no profit.
A forum archive is not going to be a measure of active participation in this context.
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« on: April 25, 2015, 07:26 »
I hope they keep the old forums as an online archive somewhere and dont begin the next 15 years by destroying their own history. Would there be a business case for that ? Surely it just contains out-of-date information + lots of spilled-milk ? I think that there is always danger of romanticising the past. The f5/Vetta-club era iStock was, with hindsight, a low point which sowed the seeds of the decline. I miss the easy money from that time but I think that was mostly down to the economic boom and iStock at that time being so well known in the tech community which existed back in that era - it certainly wasn't down to the business being well run. iStock needed completely re-booting. By comparison I think that during that same era Shutterstock were much more focused on strategy, work etc.
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« on: April 25, 2015, 04:33 »
Where I live what should be the pricing page comes up blank. Running in debug/console mode I see that this is because they are returning (to this location) a server error. It doesn't matter what browser I use. If I log in via a VPN in Switzerland everything comes up fine. Otherwise there is no way of buying content from them.
Therefore I suspect that this is likely to be a problem with their ip-geo-location failing to identify my country and there being no default case. It could be a problem with their site or it could be a problem with their content distribution network.
I took the time to submit screenshots, console log etc to their bug thread. But they aren't interested.
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« on: April 24, 2015, 12:57 »
including the closing down of the istock public forums That was #2 on my 2015 predictions  http://www.microstockgroup.com/24028/24028/msg402864/#msg402864The whole history of istock and the original community is in those forums. I wonder if they really plan to delete it all? This post from KelvinJ on Sept 13 2010 was my favourite ever. Goodness knows how it ever survived being posted. I guess Lobo found it as funny as everyone else did. I think he showed a good sense of humour leaving it up You don't seem to be taking the hint. They've F'd us in the A, rolled over, farted and are reaching for their cigarettes. They don't want some cosy post coital chat. They're just hoping you will realise how embarrassing the whole situation is, take the couple of dollars they've left on the bedside table, get dressed and do the walk of shame. The whole history of istock and the original community is in those forums. I wonder if they really plan to delete it all? I never liked the forum back in in the days of woo-yay. It reached its worst around the time of F5 IMO. They spent far too much time listening to the contributors and far too little time actually getting stuff fixed. And they were running a very weak team. The idea that it was a community always seemed very bogus to me.
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« on: April 22, 2015, 12:52 »
for 10 bucks a month, I get LR AND PS and all the latests upgrades. For me, I would rather spend the $10 each month than to keep buying upgrades every year
I started with Photoshop in 1990. Today I can do everything that I used to use Photoshop for in Pixelmator. It's fully 16 bit, costs a fraction of the price and installs neatly via the Mac app store.
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« on: April 22, 2015, 12:31 »
$1 per day is not a fortune in Hungary
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« on: April 22, 2015, 12:01 »
Lightroom is definitely worth the money. Buy it now before Adobe restrict it to subscription only.
I have been with Lightroom since the original beta and have bought every version since. But the question I am asking myself is whether I want to stay with a product which seems likely to end up being subscription only. Since I switched to Fuji-X I often end up using Iridium Developer for RAW processing because it often does a better job on the fine detail than Adobe.
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« on: April 19, 2015, 09:43 »
I am sure you have already been through this, but looking at this page - I see that in the Photoshelter FTP export settings there is a possibly relevant option: -> embed updated metadata. You would want that to be NOT checked. Also opt to send the original file if that is possible. 
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« on: April 18, 2015, 11:48 »
My guess is that this will relate to the IPTC data having been saved using the old IIM schema - as opposed to XMP. Or vice versa. There will probably be a setting in Photo Mechanic which allows you to select one or the other, or both. You probably want to select whatever option gives you embedded XMP (ie not IIM and not using a sidecar file). It may alternatively be called Dublin Core (different but compatible). Or it may be that you are best having the data written to both XMP and the legacy IIM. IPTC is not a single format. photometadata.org is a great read.
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« on: March 29, 2015, 12:01 »
I would not be surprised to see them scrap the exclusivity program sooner or later - at least as it currently exists.
Everything they are doing seems to be about reducing complexity and building the business rules into the site. The exclusivity program ultimately increases complexity. And they could just as easy create different collections according to some algorithmic criteria.
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« on: March 28, 2015, 04:56 »
Definitely go with Squarespace if you don't mind spending the money - and if you only want a portfolio solution. Their sites look modern. And you don't have to worry about keeping the platform up to date etc - you can forget about that.
You can do stuff drag and drop with Squarespace which would otherwise require a very good knowledge of code. And the sites properly resize on phones and tablets too. Without you having to think about that.
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« on: March 26, 2015, 14:24 »
I moved one of the duplicates to the garbage bin. Not sure if that's what you're referring to.
OK. It's definitely possible I got confused or did not look hard enough - but I think the thread I brought back out of spam and renamed is this one. Anyhow Robert Harding Picture Library is very long established and well respected. And that's what matters.
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« on: March 26, 2015, 13:11 »
Somebody moved this thread to spam. I have moved it back to General Stock Discussion. I am assuming that it was moved to spam by accident. Robert Harding is a very well known UK agency (pre dates Getty and used to represent Magnum in the UK IIRC)
ETA: unfortunately we now seem to have multiple versions. Not sure how that happened. Ooops. Have sent duplicate version to bin.
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« on: March 26, 2015, 09:17 »
It's interesting to see what percentage of sales are to the U.S. as well - about a third in my case.
ditto
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« on: March 26, 2015, 05:59 »
The receipts for the March payments have been posted at our payout reports page. These detail any tax deductions.
I was taxed 30% on US sales only. This is what they said would happen provided I completed the tax interview properly.
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