And 123RF looks all different too.  Wow.

Reading that forum on FB, sellers there are incredibly unknowledgeable about things like licenses and copyright.  They have MS Paint, so they�re ready to go.

Yeah, I think I misunderstood what I read.

Just a note to beware.  I got a chargeback of $25 + $20 from Paypal for a sale through Photoshelter four months after the fact.  PP has zero protection for digital products for the buyer.  I've read you should mail them a receipt with tracking and use that as proof, but I don't know if that works, and you need their address.

There are numerous threads here on �what should I consider when I�m building the all new amazing micro agency?�, if you search a bit.  Obviously, nothing ever came of them.

" Do buyers have access to model release forms?"

No.

i am sry sean. it is. cleary you don�t know how to draw shapes with numbers. :-)

I can draw a triangle and fill it in with contributors' usernames.  That doesn't make it a "pyramid scheme".

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on June 17, 2020, 07:41

Don�t be ridiculous.  And research what a pyramid scheme is.

I don't have to research anything. That's the difference between a millennial and everyone else, I guess. The older generation speaks from experience. The newer one looks everything up on Wikipedia and Reddit, develops the smug satisfaction of thinking they've got a handle on the subject and then tells everyone else to "Look it up/do your own homework/etc."

Yeah, I'm a "mullennial", lol.   Guess you didn't "look that up".

BTW, a "pyramid scheme" requires a pyramid.  Which this isn't, and doesn't have.

Some of your comments have now been addressed with some minor changes. Although to be fair, the call to boycott SS was a community action before the group officially endorsed it. So while we could make ourselves look better by saying it was our idea all along, it would not be factually accurate. Better-positioned or not, I don't think that's the way to act for the community.

I don't know how they've "been addressed".  I just looked again - https://stockcoalition.org/ - and it looks the same.  Like something from the mid-90s.  No information or anything.  It doesn't look like a professional organization.  Sorry if that's brutally honest, but someone may want to address it.

�  And co-opting Black Lives Matter when people are literally fighting for their lives is so uncool.�

They keep doing this despite being told how stupid it looks.

So you are suggesting Istock just cancelled your contract for absolutely no reason? Why would any agency do that to one of their top producers without reason?

Paranoia.  http://www.seanlockephotography.com/2013/02/11/a-change-in-things/

Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on May 27, 2020, 11:59

Question.  Since it's "percentage of price paid", say you have a 100 image sub for $100.  If the buyer only downloads the one image, did he pay $1 for that image, or $100.  Because if it's the latter, then there go immediate sales reports.

They've clarified that on the monster thread.  Its going to be what you expect.

You get the share as if they used all their images.  So the smallest amount.  SS keep the change.

That sounds like BS.  Then they aren't following their rules.  You are not getting a percentage of what was paid.

https://www.microstockgroup.com/microstock-coop/microstock-coop-what-we-actually-want-to-do-ideas/