whether something is "editorial" according to copyright law is based on usage (the buyer) and not the sale or seller. marking something as 'editorial' for sale, without knowing how it will be used, is nonsense, and shows how clueless the stock agencies are.

the sale to a professional (web developer, designer, etc) is not considered 'use'. 'use' means how it is used to present to the general public.

selling on alamy is *not* selling to the general public.

the whole agency is full of it when it comes to editorial use.

what they instead should do is have all content as royalty free, and list if it includes release forms, and let the buyer decide if he needs the release form, since he knows how he is going to use it. for example, news media outlets that write news stories don't need model release forms or property release forms (even though they often request them) because it falls under 'fair use'. therefor, anything they buy is editorial use regardless of how the agency classifies it.

agencies got it wrong. wish they would fix it.

Again, I did a pixel by pixel comparison of frames from a video rendered to PRORES and a video rendered to H264. The difference was negligible, the file size of H264 was significantly smaller.

It is a complete myth that PRORES is a good codec.

Out of 8,000,000 or so pixels, only 500 to 2000 differed between the H264 and PRORES rendered frames, and the H264 file size was a fraction of the PRORES file size.

People using PRORES are deluded into thinking it is superior to H264, and they are completely wrong.

I earn a living from only microstock. Video, photo, and some audio.

if anyone ever asks to see your camera or recordings, tell them no, unless they are a police officer. no one has the right to look at your material no matter if you are on their property or not. if anything, take a photo of anyone that bothers you, they are scared of having their photo taken more so than anything.

courts only grant rights to law enforcement (police). private security guards do not have rights granted by courts.

do not film any place that the US government or local government has posted that you cannot film. there are special photography laws for certain locations.

if a private security official harasses you, tell them to call the police, or call the police yourself.

you said: "SS has a 30 megs limit."

I am pretty sure their limit is 80 mp.

I uploaded an 80mp photo as a test.

The issue I see is that many companies are upresezing photos (which are being purchased), and that there are few uses for high res imagery. Most photos are probably being purchased for blogs, which do not need to be high res.

the description in the article is *NOT* artificial intelligence.

you said: "if DT's software can change itself "

the software is not rewriting its code, it is updating its database. it is not artificially intelligent. what they are doing is nothing new.

I used to have to issue 1099 forms to people I hired.

I seem to recall they have to be sent by Jan 31 of every year if the person made more than $600 for the year. There are exceptions whereby you do not have to send the 1099 but I do not remember what they are.

you said: "The only stipulations are that you can't use the NASA logo or any people in the images for commercial use. They would be editorial only."

It would be more accurate to say Fair Use (in accordance with US copyright law) and not Editorial. US copyright law has no provisions solely for Editorial (in US copyright law it is known as Commentary).

you can submit 3d footage as separate streams, or try putting the left stream on the left and the right stream on the right (making the video double wide).

they might reject them.

I submitted my 3d footage as 2d (left stream only).

pond5, fotolia, and a few other sites do accept 3d video (although they don't know it).

if you did not receive your form, you can go to your local federal building and get a printout of your 1099's for any year.

I know for a fact that they have multiple servers, so you can see one thing on one server and something different on another server. I noticed this because I was reloading pages and seeing 2 different versions flipping back and forth, until a while later when they became both the same.

my account was closed once, and after sending emails back and forth, they openned it again, and never told me why it was closed.

based on what I am reading on google searches, people are claiming that broadcasters are still broadcasting in interlace video.