Quote from: tickstock on October 03, 2013, 20:57

Quote from: Mantis on October 03, 2013, 20:26

Get real TS.  They gave away our * rights in perpetuity, so while we got paid "one time" the image/s can be used unlimited times by unlimited people----WITHOUT US GETTING PAID.

I don't think anyone got fairly compensated for the google deal and I don't think the deal is defensible.  This is a thread about Shutterstock though and whatever Istock did doesn't really matter for this discussion does it?

So that's how you defend your comments by saying this isn't about Istock, it's a SS thread.  I think I made my point. And if the MSG community is angry with me for going off topic I guess I am in for a bunch of "negatives".

Ok so you want to talk about the Getty/Google deal.  Ok then tell me how it relates to anything being discussed in this thread.  The whole point of my one question to Scott which was "About the free images you said it is your "general practice", does that mean there are cases when images are given away without compensation for contributors?" was to learn more about what Shutterstock's policy is on free images.  And in light of the Getty/Google deal I thought people would want to have some answers from Shutterstock on their policy.  Asking questions (I don't think you can say this was rude or an unjustified question) about free images is not ok to you?