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Google images licensable tag
Firn:
--- Quote from: Anyka on September 02, 2020, 02:48 ---As Jo Ann said, at this moment, only Depositphotos and Dreamstime have the licensable tag, and 123rf and Canstock show the Product tag.
This means that Adobe and Shutterstock are running far behind those 4.
Shutterstock now tries to solve this problem quickly by teaming up with Google, but this ONLY has effect on THEIR FUTURE searches. Every image sold before today, sold by Shutterstock, showing up in a search on a buyer's website, will NOT have a tag.
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I don't think that's correct? I just did a quick search and could find multiple of my photos on Google from Shutterstock with a tag, even though none of these photos sold recently, some even never sold at all. I found some that don't have the tag as well, but I don't know why some have it and others don't. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with sales or recent or old files, as far as I can tell.
Anyka:
Is that a new image or an oldie? I did the test with a 3 year old photo. I assume it takes quite some time to tag 300 million images ...
Firn:
--- Quote from: Anyka on September 02, 2020, 05:16 ---Is that a new image or an oldie? I did the test with a 3 year old photo. I assume it takes quite some time to tag 300 million images ...
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That particular one is about one year old.
henri:
Adobe seems to be out, at least I couldn't find any images from adobe with the badge. All the others seem to be IN like SS, Alamy, iStock, Dreamstime etc... and many of the smaller are also in already.
Photoshelter is very much IN whereas SmugMug seems to be OUT. This is strange as SmugMug has an integrated e-commerce site which would fit well with the badge directing there. For independent photographers this could open some possibilities.
I wonder whether photosites like Flickr or 500px will allow the required URLs in IPTC?
edit. I added the required URLs in metadata in Lightroom and exported it locally.
I then used this tool to check the metadata
https://getpmd.iptc.org/getiptcpmd.html
The exported file had all the nice ITCP fields with all the required URLs like
statement of rights and licensor filled up nicely.
Next I uploaded the image to my own site in SmugMug and used Google search console to index it. The image showed then in Google image search but did not have the licensable badge on it. So I downloaded my image from SmugMug and checked with getpmd whether the required ITCP field were still there. They were gone from the image.
I then double checked by uploading the image to my Flickr site, downloaded the image from Flickr and checked the metadata. All the required stuff was there.
This is fairly disappointing as I have lot of images in my SmugMug site with integrated e-commerce platform. It would have been very nice to be able to incorporate these images in the Google image license scheme. This could have been a major opportunity for independent photographers selling images through SmugMug. Now the images are side tracked as google badges are missing.
It would be very interesting to know which other sites strip the required IPTC from images and which don't.
Jo Ann Snover:
--- Quote from: Anyka on September 02, 2020, 02:48 ---As Jo Ann said, ...
This means that Adobe and Shutterstock are running far behind those 4.
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I said that Shutterstock and Alamy don't show author details. They do show the licensing tag, but what you see when you click on the tag does not name the copyright holder.
All the tags - product and licensable - are spotty. Not all images from an agency show the tags. I didn't find any for Adobe (but given their program for tracking image history, perhaps they want nothing to do with this Google initiative)
Shutterstock appears to be linking to searches versus the image shown, and they also use the product tag, but I've so far seen that only for videos, not images or illustrations
Here are some examples
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