It's good idea. It may not be insignificant for agencies - if I remember well - last year Shutterstock announced on their blog (or Twitter?? - don't remember exactly) that they are proud that they are best selling agency according to Tyler's MS Survey.

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Not yet. But.
By the way - if I remember well your illustrations - they are perfect cliparts that could be moved to Google or Microsoft - for free :-) But it can happen as independent anyway. Read current iS threads here...
I don't want to scare you but being in your shoes I'd rather wait until iStock/Google is solved somehow.
But you're to decide...

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I just wrote to VStock about 44 images of theirs that are listed in the Google/Getty giveaway...

I heard back this morning from Greg Vote at VStock asking for whatever information I can share. He said the subject came up on his forum and "... we are all disgusted by Getty's ridiculous actions."

I sent him e-mail with links to everything I could think would be useful.

Jo-Ann, please, may I ask you to send similar mail also to Michael from Zoonar [email protected]
Numbers of images from Zoonar Collection on Thinkstock are: 126410102, 126498001, 126808112,  126860118, 126891940, 126897562,  126915928, 126929991, 126939031, 126940621, 126952939, 126970160, 127003653, 127008971, 127030183, 127035462,  127041189, 127049718, 127057325
It would take me one hour to write something meaningful with my English...
Thank you.

I am happy to.

Thank you.

I've deactivated my best 100.  Don't see much point in deactivating the low sellers first, as that helps istock.

Very true.
And it's not about punishing iS only - we have to protect our images. What if just our top seller is to be next that appears on Google Drive?

They say "There may eventually be additional content added to this pool/agreement, but at the moment there are no concrete plans" but it's kind of hard to trust them. I won't wait that long. I don't want to see ten or more thousand images added till Feb 2nd. I'm waiting for their announcement to see which way we go (I hope that some will appear today) and decide in two days.

Another thought, is Getty just devaluing their competitors collections so strengthening their grip on the market?
First non exclusives are forced to give their work to TS if they want to stay on IS, then they give away everything on TS and all of a sudden all that content, that is also on their competitors' sites, is worthless. Other sites go out of business, Getty back on top with their wholly owned and exclusive stuff intact.

It sounds like paranoid theory but it doesn't mean it can't be true. Who would believe few days ago that Getty will give their (our) images to Google for free.
I hope that explanation that they are "lazy, incompetent, greedy or uncaring" is right one.

Deal with Microsoft is another disaster. Doesn't exist something like as we call it "this agreement is against good manners?"
I must say that facing system of American law that I know only from TV series seems to be painful experience. I don't have excessive confidence in European law but I think that even if biggest local publishing house would misuse my images I would just hire average lawyer and I'd have a very good chance to win. Most probably it would end up with some out-of-court settlement. I'm so naive that I believe that truth may be twisted (that's why lawyers exist) but it can't be reversed upside down thanks to higher number of more expensive lawyers. It seems to be very unlikely that poor man can win lawsuit in US unless some famous lawyer wants to work for free because he wants to gain publicity.

Quote from: jm on January 13, 2013, 17:31

I didn't know until now that it is possible to reactivate images on iS again. So it's not difficult choice for me. I'll wait two or three days for new batch of spin doctors' fairytales and if nothing significant happens - then I'll deactivate images.

I didn't know that either.  I think I'll be deactivating my port very very soon.  Perhaps tomorrow I create a script to automatically deactivate my port so I don't have to do it manually one image at a time.

Sean already created some script. But it seems that I can't make it work.
http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=350491&messageid=6818805   

Has something happened on the Google Drive announcement page, I see it has 138 comments but I cannot see any of them.

They are still there but I had to reload page several times in Safari. In Chrome they appeared immediately.

If you ask because of Google issue - they are from Zoonar collection on Thinkstock.

Ooops - I just found out that there are also 20 images from Zoonar. I wonder if Zoonar.com has been informed about this deal.

OMFG. That guy became rich thanks to image of planks. I have one too but it doesn't work that well.