I removed my portfolio from Panther last summer to get out of their (no opt out-able) partner program.  Unfortunately their partners are still selling my images.

Because of posting my work on social media I have gotten thousands of dollars of work from people. So in an indirect way
it does make me money!

Thanks for sharing!

Hello Microstock World! (...)

Ok, I wrote a message to Pedro Lima https://www.facebook.com/pedrolimaofficial and I was contacted by a representative of the singer. They thought that they bought the copyright of my video project from videohive.net. I've explained them that they didn't buy my copyright, and showed the Envato license terms. They apologized and said that they will report to VEVO about that and will notify me.

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Quote from: Zero Talent on February 27, 2016, 09:16

Quote from: Teddy the Cat on February 27, 2016, 04:28

I don't know why people complain about Alamy and their upload process.

Let me explain why.

Because all saved keywords appear on the lower box.
1. Expressions are broken into individual words and you have to recreate the original expressions using quotes.
2.Then you have to select (copy and delete) the most important keywords to be pasted on the upper box
3. Then you have do go through another tedious selection for the middle box.
4. Moreover, instead of having limits based on number of keywords, like all other agencies,  the limits are based on number of characters. You have to carefully select, sometimes more than once, what you want to move, in order to stay below these limits.
5. You have to go through a few additional tabs and click through more selections than required by any other agency.

It takes 5 minutes for each photo, instead of nothing (or a few seconds in the worse case)

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And you only have so many characters in description and it automatically truncates it so you have to either shorten it or delete it and go with the second tab where you can put in longer descriptions.  Then there is the model release. If you have someone's finger in the photo (just their finger, no other identifying features) you have to take the time to create, upload and submit a model release.  Then if you accidentally say yes to property release the system automatically sets your sales type to RM.  When you change change it back to no property release required, the system will not change back the license to RF, so if you forget and submit, you have to delete the image and start all over. Otherwise you have to remember to manually change it back to RF.

Just a few more hassles to add on to what mr. talent posted.

With a portfolio of 8k and online since 4 month.
I had no success with it.
0 sales, make me feel strange.

How did alamy goes for you?

If it doesn't make you feel good, it's probably not good news.

Quote from: zorba on January 21, 2016, 13:21

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on January 18, 2016, 18:35

Quote from: jrwasserman on January 18, 2016, 16:05

Shoot exclusive. If they accept any image from the shoot, you cannot submit elsewhere.

You cant submit the shoot ( or remove it ) anywhere else for the life of your contract.  Regardless of how many they accept or how poor sales are.

So you're saying that THE SHOT has to be exclusive, but you can send other shots (reasonably different from that one) and of course work for other agencies, am I right?

The problem in "exclusive" is "Exclusive photographer VS Exclusive photograph".

Here is what GI contract specifies:

"All Content submitted to Getty Images is on a Content exclusive basis. This means that Content submitted to Getty Images and any other content that is substantially the same (a �Similar�) may not be licensed to any third party unless Getty Images has notified you that Content and all of its Similars have been rejected"

"5.3 Similars. For Content from an Editorial Event, a Similar means an item of Content that is part of a package depicting one topic, issue or event and that is often but not necessarily taken at approximately the same location as other Content"

"On a non-exclusive basis, you may use Accepted Content and any Similars for promoting or documenting you and your work, provided that these uses do not compete with or limit the rights granted to Getty Images under the Agreement. You must obtain Getty Images� prior written consent to use Accepted Content on the cover of a self-promotional book to ensure that your use does not conflict with any licenses that Getty Images may have previously issued. Also on a non-exclusive basis, you may use Accepted Content that is available for license through a
royalty-free license model in connection with the sale by you of prints, t-shirts and other retail merchandise where the Accepted Content is the focus of the product, so long as you are not licensing or giving away rights to the Accepted Content for anything other than such merchandising. On a coexclusive basis you may use Accepted Content and any Similars for: (a) limited edition, signed and/or numbered fine art prints (though Getty Images may still sell and license art prints and other print products ); and (b) for Video originally appearing as part of an edited program, use within that edited program, including the sale or license as a complete cut of that edited program for television, film, commercial or documentary use."

Quote from: jrwasserman on January 18, 2016, 16:05

Shoot exclusive. If they accept any image from the shoot, you cannot submit elsewhere.

You cant submit the shoot ( or remove it ) anywhere else for the life of your contract.  Regardless of how many they accept or how poor sales are.

So, can anyone tell me what we the contributors actually get paid for these unlimited streaming downloads. Do we actually get paid for them or do we get our 50% cut of nothing.