Author Topic: What about asia (Read 4263 times)

vonkara · « **on:** October 01, 2007, 21:09 »

I think asia is a very huge market and i don't know really much how this part of the world download at microstock sites. I heard it would be more and more difficult to have files accepted due of the big amount and always increasing of pictures online.

But i see at dreamstime the statistics about the numbers of users and photographers who appearing me honest at this time. I know this part of the world is more and more connected to the internet. Do asia is going to put fire on microstock sites in the future or the fire is currently on.

And what about Japan. THEY are almost the major connected country. I think about how they can find hundred of pictures of asian people taked in ten different point of view for promoting partnership in their company.

Kngkyle · « **Reply #1 on:** October 01, 2007, 21:19 »

I know StockXpert has a Japanese version. Not sure about any of the others.

wysiwyg_foto · « **Reply #2 on:** October 01, 2007, 21:47 »

I've found my images on a Japanese version of Shutterstock. I also work with some traditional agencies that have sub distributors in this market. I agree that this is a growing market that needs to be addressed - China will be one to focus on in the future.

null · « **Reply #3 on:** October 02, 2007, 11:55 »

At the moment I'm back in the Philippines till the end of the year. I had some talks with local designers here, and I always got the same answer. We download freebies and watermarked thumbs as much as we can, and we clone the copyright out.

The Philippine government, just like many other surrounding governments (Indonesia, Malaisia, China) doesn't care at all about copyright issues. The markets and shops are full with functioning goodies like Photoshop CS3 - extended edition, Windows XP pro, 64, Vista, corporate, - Office 2007 corporate - recent movies, TV-series, all below 1$/DVD. I was looking for a legal MS-Win version for my new desktop here in Mindanao, and they frowned at me since it was 100$, and they had to order it especially in Manila, 1000km North.

Try to sue them. I wish you good luck, since you will be caught up in a totally corrupt system that will send you bills for fees, but will never deliver.

A market, sure. But a market that can't nor won't pay. It's difficult to compete with free.
The situation in Japan might be more normal. Forget the rest of (South)-East Asia.

epixx · « **Reply #4 on:** October 02, 2007, 14:45 »

I can confirm that. I had a design company in Bangkok until 2 years ago. Getting my designers not to steal images was no easy task, and they couldn't understand how I could make money from stock photo when everything was free anyway.

What's important to remember, is that most art and design in this part of the world has until recently been based on old traditions. The concept of paying someone for the right to use creative work simply doesn't have a long history here.

It may or may not change in the future. Impossible to say. Still, Asia is a huge market, with well over half of the world's population. Some of them do pay for images after all.

vonkara · « **Reply #5 on:** October 02, 2007, 15:12 »

Wow! That are really really sad. That mean, for me, if it's doesn't change in the future, the number ratio between photographers and users, maybe can decrease. What does the industry to protect right in global.

Sure it's a much larger problem that microstock sites are unable to control. Well, think i have to wait ten revolutions in each countries like they do in myanmar to see a great change in mentality.

epixx · « **Reply #6 on:** October 02, 2007, 23:09 »

One of my skepticisms about mircostock was actually centered around this:

What if somebody downloads a few hundred images from any of the agencies or a mix of them, pays the price, and releases a CD with the photos in the Asian market. I doubt that any microstock-agency would bother to trace it, and if they tried, they would have a very hard time finding the culprit out there in the city-jungle somewhere, or even in the real jungle. If they found him, it would be too late anyway, since the images would be copied again and again and again and again...

This has been a problem with macro-stock CD's as well, but the limitation has been the price. They had to find someone who had an original copy. Now they can download as many images as they want, for a very reasonable price.

If it will have an influence on our sales, is impossible to say. Most of those who buy the pirated CD's probably wouldn't buy the images in a legal manner anyway.

phildate · « **Reply #7 on:** October 02, 2007, 23:36 »

Since I live in Singapore and a lot of my pictures contain Asian models, I really hope the market picks up here, without too many photographers starting to submit. The greatest challenge will be to get people to actually pay for images. I know a band here in Singapore and for them, there is no money in the Asian market as in most countries, people will just download their music for free. Japan is probably the exception to this. Guess it might be same with images.

madelaide · « **Reply #8 on:** October 03, 2007, 15:19 »

Quote from: epixx on October 02, 2007, 23:09

One of my skepticisms about mircostock was actually centered around this (...) If it will have an influence on our sales, is impossible to say. Most of those who buy the pirated CD's probably wouldn't buy the images in a legal manner anyway.

Exactly. That's why I don't sell images I really care for in microstock. I still may lose money with the ones I don't care and are in micros, but that is a loss I won't regret so much (though I'd still be very upset...)

Regards,
Adelaide

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