Author Topic: Responsibility for setting incorrect licence (Read 25600 times)

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #26 on:** September 09, 2016, 12:18 »

Quote from: Alamy on March 30, 2016, 09:20

...With the release of the new tools (coming soon) you'll be able to select RF editorial too.

Cheers

James A

I've been holding off uploading more to Alamy hoping for the release of these new tools and went to their forums today to see if there was any news. A couple of days ago another contributor started a topic to ask if there was a date yet and the answer was no - they're "coming soon", but no date.

Rushing things out without testing them has tripped other agencies up and clearly isn't a good thing. On the other hand, we're six months down the road from the original mention of these tools and still not close enough to give any kind of target date for release.

If these tools are another year away because they really aren't a high priority, then it'd make sense to go through the very painful process of using the current Manage Images tool to get stuff online. It would be a courtesy to contributors to give some sort of timeframe (and this is done regularly by software companies; this isn't a pie-in-the-sky request) so we can figure out how best to proceed.

Pablito · « **Reply #28 on:** September 24, 2016, 11:28 »

Just noticed your update - so thanks Alamy.

noodle · « **Reply #29 on:** September 24, 2016, 11:58 »

I agree with getting things right before release.
When it happens, it happens, and everyone will be happy.

Look at all the screwups that have happened at SS with their tinkering with the site - nothing but pissed off contributers and buyers.

Jo Ann Snover · « **Reply #30 on:** September 24, 2016, 13:09 »

I decided to go ahead with uploads under the current system and was rewarded with one of the new uploads selling within a week of it going online

Still looking forward to the changes - and RF editorial - coming soon.

AlessandraRC · « **Reply #31 on:** September 26, 2016, 19:57 »

Quote from: beketoff on March 30, 2016, 03:10

Hi all,

Alamy has certain restrictions as to what type of images can be licenced for sale on its website (e.g. RM image on Alamy cannot be sold simultaneously on microstocks as RF, etc.).

In your experience, have you ever come across (unintentionally, of course) to a situation where your photo was put on Alamy as RM and at the same time it was on microstock as RF/editorial? Does Alamy track this down? In other words, how does it enforce this rule/limitation and what could be the consequences if you get caught?

These things happen to the best families. Lately I spotted two of my images that were supposed to be RF but on Alamy were marked as RM. I wrote to them and it was fixed within 24 hours.