I got t his message in my StockXpert inbox today and wondered why they weren't doing this before...

As you know, StockXpert.com was recently acquired by Gettyimages as part of the Jupiterimages acquisition. The StockXpert team is now working closely with our new friends to align our application and submission policies to ensure a legally safe and sound marketplace for selling your images.

In the upcoming weeks, we are going to review the entire Stockxpert collection in order to identify and remove any images that infringe on someone's intellectual property. At the same time, we will be tightening our image approval process to filter out images that we simply do not feel comfortable with.

As an example, any future uploads that contain unmodified NASA images will no longer be accepted. These images will also be removed permanently from the Stockxpert collection.

For images that will be removed from the Stockxpert collection for legal reasons, you will receive a deactivation notice to identify the image(s) that are being removed and, the legal reason that prompted the removal.

We will do our best to provide you with as much information as possible on our evolving intellectual property policies and procedures. Also, we will be updating our FAQ section on Stockxpert to highlight changes to our policies and to better reflect our future legal standards.

We look forward to working with all of you and thank you for your continued collaboration to build Stockxpert into a creative resource that designers everywhere can enjoy.

Best Regards,
The Stockxpert Team
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Interesting.  Hope the next communication from them isn't something lowering our commissions like they are trying to ram down istock's throat.

Interesting.  Hope the next communication from them isn't something lowering our commissions like they are trying to ram down istock's throat.

lets just hope they don't start with disambiguation. ... if they do they will go from one of the best sites in regards to upload to the worst.

lisa and tyler , my sentiments exactly.

isn't it a bummer how getty monopolizes this forum lately?  if leaf gets a penny for every mention of getty or related keywords, tyler will be a millionaire by now 

Stockxpert has been phased out, if my statistics are any indication.  My downloads at "StockXpert" in April were 98% from Photos.com + Jupiter Unlimited.  StockXpert subs + credit sales made up 2% of the downloads.

In March the difference was about 80/20.

In May, although early, it is 95/5.

I would not be surprised if the domain "Stockxpert" was available 1 year from now.  It doesn't seem anyone cares about it anymore.

If you are still contributing there, then you are almost certainly contributing to Photos.com/JUI in actuality.  These are the domains being pushed by Getty, and quite frankly I don't blame them.  Photos.com is a Grade A domain name, best in the business imo.  Jupiter Unlimited piggybacks off the well known Jupiter name.  Stockxpert?  Not even easy to remember.  Cannot blame Getty for pushing the other two.  But I wish the offer was something less of an embarassment than 30c per subs sale.  They are racing to the bottom with the best of them.

Well, they are not (yet) talking about CA or whatever, just images with legal issues.

until I read this i was sure that StockXpert was going to gradually disappear down the drain, the 'hold' on new uploads being shown to buyers and broken parts of the site seem to make sense now, it will be interesting to see if getty also try to style or theme StockXpert to differentiate if from istock - somewhere they can try out new licensing models without damage to istock.

This would be my last concern. I'm waiting for them to solve the zero views problem. And zero sales on images from march on. Or february on. I stopped uploading to them for now.

Strange. I had stopped uploading to them as well because it seemed like a dead in the water shell site with no contributor support or anything, but just in the last week I started having some good dollar value downloads. Go figure...

Needless to say I am starting to upload a bit to them again.

For a while on the StockXpert forum, an Admin was saying the '0 views' problem was a mystery that was being looked into.  Weeks went by and there was no resolution.  Currently, forum posts on the subject get no official response.   

That's what is so frustrating about this. Ignoring the problem won't make it go away! I really want to support StockXpert and be patient with them about this, but they aren't making it easy for me.

I had two images deactivated for "copyright or trademark protection."  These are images of the statue of * the Redeemer, a landmark of Rio.  I understand some uses may not be authorized, but possibly they would fall into the "offensive" or such prohibition.  Any travel advertisement of Rio shows the * and I doubt the archdiocese of Rio signed property releases or authorized each usage individually.  Well, ok.

I don't know exactly what the situation is.  The statue is located inside a National Park, it was built 80+ years ago and I think it is maintained by the government, but the archidiocese of Rio has some rights over it (I read the federal government gave the statue to them by the time it was opened).  I know that any event, such as movie filming, has to be authorized by the archidiocese.

The family of the architect also claim rights over it, but I believe they can only claim the authorship (even this is disputed), as this was a hired contract.

Ouch!  How was C-h-r-i-s-t's name substituted by "creepeers"?

I had two images deactivated for "copyright or trademark protection."  These are images of the statue of creepers the Redeemer, a landmark of Rio.  I understand some uses may not be authorized, but possibly they would fall into the "offensive" or such prohibition.  Any travel advertisement of Rio shows the creepers and I doubt the archdiocese of Rio signed property releases or authorized each usage individually.  Well, ok.

bit like the sydney opera house, you have to pay for commercial use (editorial is ok) including print sales etc.  But everywhere you look is pics of it