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« on: February 01, 2013, 08:23 »
This is just the tip of the iceberg, more and more sites will do this as google have an open api to allow sites to utilise google docs/drive for free 
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« on: January 30, 2013, 19:33 »
The more I read about igetty the more I dislike them, they're totally unbelievable. Arrogant bar stewards!
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« on: January 30, 2013, 11:37 »
I just put 'Appalled at Google deal, please remove my images from all partner programs immediately'.
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« on: January 30, 2013, 11:35 »
Just tried it, it's horrible, took ages to submit images and that's even when I realised that the editor part was in the left column. Hope they change it back.
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« on: January 29, 2013, 18:10 »
Yes, didn't upload anything else.
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« on: January 29, 2013, 17:13 »
I've deactivated all of mine already, told them why and asked them to immediately remove my images from their partner sites, which they seem to have done. I'll wait till next month in case there are any more pp sales and then close my account. Having images at IS is not worth the risk.
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« on: January 25, 2013, 19:03 »
And me: Posted By Lobo:
I to find it ironic that we have managed to take that site down as quickly as we did and people are still finding reasons to be upset.....
Not as ironic as we find it, it just goes to further highlight how completely out of touch with it's contributors istock/getty are. Nobody was upset at the site - in fact it's very clear from this thread that we were all using it to check whether our images were included. We are only upset that istock/getty have allowed the display & download of contributors images at high resolution to be possible (and legal) by selling images to google to redistribute for free on some sort of perpetual license that no-one but google/getty are privy too.
I think most contributors have had enough now and unless there are some concrete things done to re-compensate the contributors involved and give us the ability to opt out of 3rd party deals such as this then we're going to be leaving in droves.
Followed up by an email: The administration team at iStockphoto has revoked your forum privileges. Comments from iStockphoto Administrators (if any):
Take care. I'm pretty sure this will be best considering you're on your way out. I know how taxing it can be to have to respond to everything especially when you have already seemingly made up your mind to leave..
Regards,
Lobo
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« on: January 25, 2013, 18:26 »
I just said something that Lobo did't like and the result is:
The administration team at iStockphoto has revoked your forum privileges. Comments from iStockphoto Administrators :
Your account is not yet eligible for forum participation, but feel free to browse our forums until your posting privileges are activated.
Good grief. Have a nice break.
Cheers,
The club's getting bigger by the minute I think, did you get a sarcastic email from him too?
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« on: January 25, 2013, 12:54 »
Tis the clincher for me too, being banned from the istock forum was one thing, but this shows that things will only get worse, far worse as more and more sites start using the google docs api. Off to start deactivating.
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« on: January 25, 2013, 06:05 »
I've just been banned from the istock forum for posting this, I also got a nice sarcastic email from the moderator. Posted By Lobo:
I to find it ironic that we have managed to take that site down as quickly as we did and people are still finding reasons to be upset..... Not as ironic as we find it, it just goes to further highlight how completely out of touch with it's contributors istock/getty are. Nobody was upset at the site - in fact it's very clear from this thread that we were all using it to check whether our images were included. We are only upset that istock/getty have allowed the display & download of contributors images at high resolution to be possible (and legal) by selling images to google to redistribute for free on some sort of perpetual license that no-one but google/getty are privy too.
I think most contributors have had enough now and unless there are some concrete things done to re-compensate the contributors involved and give us the ability to opt out of 3rd party deals such as this then we're going to be leaving in droves.
I've never been banned from anything before, I feel I should get a badge or something 
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« on: January 24, 2013, 18:06 »
Can we not resurrect the site with different hosts, if we choose dodgy ones then their far less likely to comply with takedown notices, we could also mirror it in numerous places 
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« on: January 23, 2013, 16:26 »
I hate the ones that say "Congratulations! We are pleased to announce that one of your files has just been sold..." then you scroll down and find it was for 25c ...whooopee!
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« on: January 21, 2013, 12:14 »
So why is everyone waiting for another two weeks to go by?
The longer you leave your images there the more the chance of them being sold off as well as the others that were sold I would think you would want to remove them pronto.
I think you may be right, by the looks of it getty are not going to bother even issuing another statement and the longer are files are there the more risk of them being abused. I seem to remember seeing something on here about Yuri Arcurs and a lawyer meeting with getty, does anyone know what happened?
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« on: January 20, 2013, 15:05 »
I just had my first today 
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« on: January 20, 2013, 07:32 »
That's odd. I can still see both of them.
So can I now, I must have been going blind.
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« on: January 20, 2013, 06:15 »
His post's been deleted now and so has mine pointing him to this thread.
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« on: January 18, 2013, 13:23 »
He's gone from 80-90% royalties, soon it'll be 100% LOL.
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« on: January 18, 2013, 07:20 »
It's the 'All images 9.50 - any size, any use' bit that puts me off.
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« on: January 17, 2013, 13:33 »
I'm not exclusive so I can't read the original thread but it looks like they might be being a bit difficult about people deactivating? Oldladybird just stated in a thread in the 'Exclusivity Program' section that Getty cannot process changes in collections and Agency/Vetta/E+ images that had been mirrored over there will probably remain there even though you/we are now removing them from the Vetta ,etc. collections here on iStock. She does go on to say that they are looking for solutions but it will probably remain this way for at least several months. http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=350613&messageid=6823417
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« on: January 17, 2013, 04:02 »
Back up again now in the UK, they seem to be having some DNS issues.
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« on: January 15, 2013, 21:12 »
License information: Under the agreement, Google has a bespoke EULA to allow these images to be used by Google users through the Google Drive platform. Users of this platform are granted rights to place this imagery in content created using Google Docs, Google Sites, and Google Presentations and these end uses can be for commercial purposes; however, users are not granted rights to use this imagery outside of Google Drive created content and Google users have no rights to redistribute image files outside of the context in which theyre used Can be used for commercial purposes is bad enough but it doesn't even state the scope of those 'purposes'. I like the way they try to spin it by saying that they can't use the imagery in non google drive stuff - when they can use whatever they've created with google for whatever purpose they want.
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« on: January 15, 2013, 18:40 »
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« on: January 15, 2013, 14:31 »
Well I uploaded a 100 or so and around 60% were rejected for 'lighting mistakes' all were accepted at IS, SS, FT, DT etc and included my best sellers, my most sold image was rejected as not suitable for commercial use LOL, now I'm feeling totally rejected so maybe I'll stick to the top tier
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« on: January 14, 2013, 22:17 »
I have a 80-90% acceptance rate for mostly travel stuff but sales are low and commissions even lower.
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