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Canva / Re: Canva, what's the plan now?
« on: September 26, 2020, 12:54 »
Lurk in the FB group digital passive income.

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Canva / Re: Canva, what's the plan now?
« on: September 26, 2020, 08:03 »
Did yall know theres a huge group of people who use canva to create simple designs which they offer for sale as digital downloads on Etsy?  Nothing extra to the contributor.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: 3d animation upscaling?
« on: September 24, 2020, 14:46 »
I render in the final resolution I want.  Why wouldn't you?  Aside from time....

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Stock Photography Future
« on: September 22, 2020, 15:23 »
I'm pretty sure I was over a million at that point. :)

Eta: I just checked, no I wasn't :P

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Moving to the U.S.; tax questions
« on: September 21, 2020, 12:40 »
typically royalties received from your work are reported as self-employment income

Yes, that's what I said.  Thanks.

No, you said they're reported as "regular" income. I consider "regular" income to be wages. When you use Turbotax it separates wages, reported on W-2, from royalties, reported on 1099. Wages and royalties (or self-employment income) are taxed differently.

Youre confusing things.  Our royalties are not royalties as far as tax reporting.  Yes, they are regular income.  No, they are not wages, W-2.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Moving to the U.S.; tax questions
« on: September 21, 2020, 12:03 »
typically royalties received from your work are reported as self-employment income

Yes, that's what I said.  Thanks.

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Moving to the U.S.; tax questions
« on: September 21, 2020, 12:01 »
Microstock-based earnings will be reported as royalty income.

No they aren't.  They're reported as regular income

How is "royalty" income different from "regular" income?  I have both and never knew there was a difference.

"Royalty" income does not get taxed for self-employment taxes - FICA, etc.  "Royalty" income is for when you are no longer actively participating in the production.  If I stopped creating content as my "job" and then just sat back, it becomes "royalty" income.

In active production and receiving payment for licensing is taxed as "regular" income.  It doesn't matter how they report it on the 1099.

Here's an old thread: https://www.microstockgroup.com/general-stock-discussion/%27royalties%27-on-1099-misc/

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General Stock Discussion / Re: Moving to the U.S.; tax questions
« on: September 21, 2020, 09:38 »
Microstock-based earnings will be reported as royalty income.

No they aren't.  They're reported as regular income.

You can find a tax table on the IRS site to give you a basic idea, or maybe even a calculator somewhere, to give you a general idea.  If I make $X, what is my tax rate?  That's disregarding costs and such, of course.

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"Can I complain to Shutterstock so they can forbid that company to use my picture for that ad?"

Lol, welcome to stock photography.

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Based on their terms, you are spot on.

Everyone's terms are the same in this respect.  As I said.

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"Licenses issued by Playstock for any of your Content that is later removed by yourself will remain in full force and effect in perpetuity."

Yea, NO!!

Well, to be fair, thats true of all agencies.

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Really, though, whats the USP that makes buyers care?

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Selling Stock Direct / Re: Digital downloads on Etsy
« on: August 09, 2020, 18:49 »
I put up about 50 stock images a month ago that I thought would make good backgrounds.  Not a sale.

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I lost in the last battle, but I did join and send in a few dollars.  Good job.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock Forum Deactivation
« on: July 24, 2020, 11:09 »
Im magical.

Not so fast :)

I can't test because I'm banned, but can anyone non-magical post? Only Sean's post is newer than Tuesday afternoon at the moment

I messaged you.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock Forum Deactivation
« on: July 24, 2020, 08:34 »
Im magical.

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Shutterstock.com / Re: Shutterstock Forum Deactivation
« on: July 24, 2020, 08:10 »
I can still see the forums.  Last posts look to be Tuesday.

Except one :)

https://forums.submit.shutterstock.com/topic/100431-why-has-payments-decreased/?tab=comments#comment-1859367

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Adobe Stock / Re: Out of office (for a month)
« on: July 24, 2020, 07:51 »
Hi Everyone,

I wanted to give you a heads up that after tomorrow (Friday, July 24) I will be on a one month sabbatical and will be offline most, if not all of that time. Instead, I'll be soaking up some sun and shooting lots of stock! I'll be back the end of August and will check in here then.

Should anything come up that you need assistance with, please write to us via the contact us link found at the bottom of the Adobe Stock Contributor Portal or via email to [email protected]. Someone will get back to you asap.

Stay safe and be well!

Mat Hayward

Oh no you don't!  Get back in there.  No fun for you!  Lol.

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Adobe Stock / Re: Aldobe stock earnings. Woohoo!!!!
« on: July 22, 2020, 13:28 »
^^^ I think Cathy was being facetious, or satirical, as that's what Trump seems to imagine.

One would hope.  It did make me laugh.

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Just do it. Don't listen to anybody here. They aren't any smarter than you.

Well, at the least, we're more experienced...

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If I had a nickel...

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General Stock Discussion / Re: I NEED YOUR HELP
« on: July 13, 2020, 07:13 »
Ha ha!

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General Stock Discussion / Re: I NEED YOUR HELP
« on: July 10, 2020, 16:08 »
"We are focusing on the sellers for now because I believe that only when we provide an ideal platform for the contributors we can then gather a decent number of contributors."

Nope.  You need a USP for buyers.  Contributors, as seen here, will upload anywhere.  The last place with a Buyer USP was Canva.

If I had a nickel for everyone that wanted to start an "agency", I could start an agency.

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I've gotten boxes about my descriptions being too shoot, or less than 5 keywords, but it seemed to be doing more today. 

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And 123RF looks all different too.  Wow.

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