Edit: I just realize payment minimum is 100$ instead of 50$ so my advice will not work.

My advice... maybe illegal, maybe not... i don't know the legal status of what i am going to suggest...

Anyway... my advice, check payment rate per pic and ask a friend to buy some of your pics at DT... once you have your payout then you can give your friend the money back. By using this way you will not get a 43$ earining but maybe 20-25$... better that nothing.

But please, if you do this just check in deep what % you get per sale, i never understand this part in DT.

It depends on what you are doing with the editorial use image. Newspapers have stories with accompanying images on the same page as ads, so putting mixed content types in one place is not a problem.

If you are writing infomercial blog posts - in the style of a news or magazine story, but it's just a marketing/sales pitch - then stay away from editorial use only stock images.

Focus on the story the editorial use image is used with, not what else is on the same page or other parts of a blog, to decide if it's appropriate

Well, my project involves information on sports science, and I am looking to sell related info products, but the articles will be on neutral topics, not on products.

(For this project many of the editorial photos look much more attractive, especially those during sporting events)

How do those even get approved? Apparently they don�t have out of focus rejections anymore. What a bunch of garbage. �Im nippon freelancer journalist who loved to travelling around the world. in blurryness i found peace and the truth perspective.thanks for supports.� Peace and truth ... and money off other people�s back! ... in blurriness? LOL

106 pages of that garbage.

Rules for thiefs are more permissive at SS...

Thank you so much for your feedback, no i get the whole picture about this issue 

I keep working in this project, i just want to ask about take commercial photos inside someone else business.

My model will sign the release papers, so no big issue now with it (this was my original question some weeks ago (link to original post: https://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/question-about-papers-to-fill-from-models/).

I am worry about legal issues, my nightmare will be to finish and publish my book and get some claim for some possible mistake.

I was planing to take the pics inside a gym, i am not the owner of the gym and i am worry about some kind of futuer claim for using someone else place; i totally don't know how it works.

My question is: did i need some kind of paper or specific document to take and use these pics for commercial use??

Thanks for answers. I will try to reply to all.

I have friends from many countries in the world (I travel a lot) and so many people told me that they saw this ad. More-less we are similar age, so target could be done by age.

In the past I sold few times myself counting Chinese money (just the money, not my face) and thought I could sell this one as well.

I was just surprised how much money I got when I exchanged 100$ in Uzbekistan and did this photo first for Facebook and Instagram and later I uploaded it on Shutterstock. Originally it wasn't meant to be sold as stock photography, but I was like, why not.

Quote from: Mrblues101 on September 21, 2020, 17:34

Edit just to add an extra thought: Murphy's law for MS: If you upload a photo of yourself in a certain context, that photo will be used in the worst possible representation of that context.

I still remember that gay couple who agreed to be a model for MS photos with their adopted son and that photo was used in a campaign against gay marriage.

I have another photo I probably shouldn't sell, but I have few sales already. Can't even imagine in what context it will be used. Probably about "stop animal abuse" I was just playing with goose, not really holding her neck, just pretending to.

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/man-pretending-choke-goose-nature-bali-570984529

Btw. my grandmother became a meme TWICE. People just used her picture for funny memes instead what it was meant to be used for. I never told her about that. Don't even know how I would explain her

I must say that in South American countries to "hang the goose" is a colloquial way of referring to masturbation. LOL

So if you want to avoid photos of youself in strange contexts maybe you should delete that one too LOL

Thank you for your advice Jo Ann.

If i use the same Getty contract papers everything is ok? Is there is no thing like "contract copyright inflingement" by using them papers??

This is actually not a MS question, so maybe wrong forum... anyway...

As i quit from SS, my incoming in MS world just down to almost zero. I'm just getting between 1 to 3 dollars with my Dreamstime account.

I never upload pictures (i am vector designer), i still have no camera but i will get one as soon as posible; but not to upload to MS but to use in my new projet that is a blog where i will try to do some niche marketing related to my main profession.

I will use some pictures of some models to use in some ebooks, printed books and blog articles, but i am worry about making some mistake and get future legal issues because of the improper use of someone image.

I have always worked ethically and I will not use someone's image without authorization, but to fill the proper papers is pretty important, i think.

So, as this forum collects a lot of experience in the field of photography, I want to ask: What papers should I have the models sign to ensure the proper use of these images?

They move from a highly immoral action (enforce the new payment plan without prudent notice) to an illegal action (to sell content no longer authorized for sale by the author).

Quote from: Mrblues101 on July 14, 2020, 16:13

This week the weekly amount of images uploaded have a dramatic reduction from almost 900k to 578,128

That's sadly because they had a bug where new approved images would not show up starting Saturday or even Friday and the problem was fixed yesterday, on Tuesday, so new images were added to the database for 4-5 days, even though new images were submitted. So obviously not having new images in the database for more than half a week is having an impact on the number. It's not because of less images having been submitted.

I see now

Microeconomics was the course that more change my mind. By studying it i discover a lot of amazing things an a new way to see the money, work and business.

Based in microeconomic principles: people will not upload any more content if they could made more money inversting them time in something else.

Probably for most of us this new payment rate means that... stop producing and doing something else or uploading to other agencies.

Update:

June 23 - 320.955.776 images, 921.692 new images per week
June 26 - 321.204.674 images, 886.209 new images per week (updated)

Images on SS are growing but people is uploading less and less...

You need friendly upload/keyword system for contributors and nice friendly design for buyers

You will also need good legal department, because the is no easy way to find those who upload stolen content, so sue will arrive.

Also good insurrance for buyers, i dont remember exact number but i think SS pays up to 200k for sue supporting issue if the image/video you buy and use was actually stolen and then upload.

Get also ready to pay thousands and thousands in advertising

Answering your questions
-For buying just 1 image, not too much, for buying monthly/year packet maybe 50 million or more, fast growing in image number is also important
-Contributors don't want to pay, they want to sell, but if you offer a innovative approach that gives to contributors the chance to upload and also buy something like "shares", and you also offer trustability and transparency maybe some contributors will consider to put some money too
-No body will start to upload in a exclusive way, people will start as "zero risk" as possible. Your agency may show certain earning and trustabilty for some of us decide to upload exclusive. I can upload as much as 50 vector illustrations per week

May i ask if you really have the money it takes to start an agency? For serious project i think it will request at least 200.000 usd...