You can tell people you work for them, it's ok... it's actually encouraged.

Why should it help us? It's something he's decided to do as an experiment, with his content, and he's explained why he's trying it in the post.

'Maybe' would be the most accurate answer. The only definitive answer from a legal standpoint would be the decision of a court of law, but obviously you don't want it to get to that point, so best to use a combination of common sense while erring ever so slightly on the side of caution. But even after doing so, whatever agency you upload it to might feel it does require a model release, even if you don't... and reject it for not having one, and there's not really anything you can do about that. 

It's Santa's fault. Give it until Tuesday and you should see a slight uptick when the hangovers wear off and the reality of everyday life kicks in.

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on January 03, 2023, 10:58

Quote from: Diana Herrmann on January 03, 2023, 10:51

How do the majority of people who made income from microstock in 2012 do ten years later?

Made me curious. About 55% up rolling 12 month total for November 2012 vs November 2022

Do not forget that the dollar inflates. What was the inflation rate in 10 years? Here, downvote it.

An average of just under 2.5% a year. You know there's no downvote feature, right?

I was referring to Shutterstock having the best month in January, without specifically stating so, in an effort to demonstrate to Stroker that it's important to make it clear who exactly is having their 'best month'. If you say you are having your best month, that's fine... if you just say it's the best month in general, that implies you have some kind of behind the scenes knowledge that's not available to the rest of us.

Are you making stuff up again?! What rights are they violating?

Quote from: SpaceStockFootage on December 23, 2022, 04:33

Quote from: wds on December 22, 2022, 13:16

What's the justification for not telling the contributor which images were purchased for this usage?

Probably nowhere near enough space to list them all.

Are you implying that these line items we see correspond to more than one asset?

I have no way of knowing either way, but if some people are getting up to $100 payments on a single day then I'd be very, very surprised this isn't from several items/uses. I don't know how much this images cost the buyer, but 10 cents, minus SS's cut, divided by however many dozens or hundreds of items used to train the algorithm... or however it works. That's a lot of slices of the pie. As I say, I don't know the specific but I would have though a new AI image would have drawn from multiple sources to create a new image. 

I wonder if they mean... "As soon as we've finished the initial training of the AI, we'll give an option to opt out"

You need to apply to the IRS to get a ITIN... but you don't really need one, as a non-US individual you should be using your Foreign Tax Identification Number, which is your tax ID in your own country. Although if you have, or do, set up a US company then you'll be using the ITIN instead, which should be provided to you at some point during the setup.

But, first of all they are trying to put the risk at you. They state that artists supplying the images should have all the rights to the picture so that in the end they could not be held responsible if there were any copyright issues and stuff.

To be fair, they've been doing that with images, videos and vectors since the beginning.

Quote from: Justanotherphotographer on December 04, 2022, 09:22

AI isn't getting inspired. It doesn't think.

The question is moot.

That wasn't a question.

You were in every store simultaneously, all day, every day? Unlikely. Anyway, I wouldn't class 8.71 billion dollars in revenue as 'not popular'.