I was also surprised with removals of diversity and inclusion contents. Something is very wrong about it. Next they will probably start witch-hunting female empowerment topics or contents with disabled people. 🤷‍♂️

Of course it's up to Canva to decide if these contents are not welcomed there. I'm not going to argue. But "VIOLATION and ENFORCEMENT with a threat to suspend account still being attached to THIS?" Really? As a "thank you" for more than a decade of cooperation to a contributor who was among the first ones to believe in them back in 2013? Strange.

The messaging around "suspension" is not intended for the latter case; so please don't be alarmed by this, and you don't need to worry about account suspension.

Thanks, Danny! I really appreciate your response. 🙏

Is it possible to make these library cleanups without sending "Notice of violation - We've had to take action on your account" emails each time? Or maybe edit a template somehow. The subject is very aggressive and the whole tone of template used feels like being in the police station or court room:

"content or behavior associated with your account violates", "Facts and circumstances", "Enforcement taken". When you get something like this it basically says "you're criminal and you're guilty".

And then I discover all of these words are because of innocent closeup photograph of two male hands with gay pride wristbands on them. Are we in Putin Russia now?

OK, at least email is not threatening with time in jail or death penalty for images of gay pride wristbands or women walking on beach in bikinis, that's a relief. 🤷‍♂️

My point is: if something accepted years ago is no good for your library anymore - of course it's up to you to delete it. But this template being used for such a library cleanup is a major miscommunication, Can you please forward it to your team and then maybe they can figure out some other way to notify us? 🙏 Or maybe cleanup  without notifying us at all, as Canva was doing for years before? It was way better than what we get now.

Starting from last week I've got several emails from Canva with "Notice of violation" topic.

In each email there are noticed about some of my contents (3-5 in each mail) like:

"Violation details
Smiling Young Woman in Bikini Swimsuit on Beach (Raster)
Facts and circumstances:
We identified this content through our own investigation.
This content violates our policies on sexual content.
This decision was made by a member of our team.
Enforcement taken:
This content won�t be shown to Canva Education account holders."

These are all old contents, uploaded 2 years ago or more. Beach photos in bikinis, protos of people drinking beer in the bar and similar. Usual stock contents.

It's OK for me if they delete some previously accepted contents, but latest email also says: "Repeated violations may result in the permanent suspension of your Canva account." Nothing like this in previous emails.

It would be so stupid to lose my account just because they deleted some old contents. I wonder if I'm the only one getting these notices lately.

It's a major business model shift.

Visual content providers will be transformed to dataset content providers. Advantage is clear - you should only pay once to dataset content providers for training your AI and you're also paying them much less. And once you trained your AI, you can move dataset to archive. No need to keep them online and pay for cloud. Another win.

If Shutterstock manages to stay ahead of competition it's probably a time to get long SSTK stock. Their "paying to content providers" expense article will dramatically decrease very soon and it should positively affect earnings. 

For most of people earning their income contributing the old way, it's probably a message their can kiss their businesses goodbye.

I've got some money to my account yesterday but no email notification.

Should I expect the email to come? I'm completely in the dark what I'm being paid for. Is it for photos I nominated at the beginning of June? Is it for videos? No idea.

Anyone else with the same situation?

Same here. Remittance advice email, but nothing on PayPal.

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/PeopleImages-Yuri+A

I think now they changed default option to "donate" for everyone, without a chance to change it back.

So every time you have to opt-out each new set of images, and if you fail to do it in 7 days (get ill, travel, don't notice an email etc), your images will be "donated" to their new free platform. I thin this change is directly related to this new platform. It has a separate name and webpage.

Platform name is mentioned on page where you should make a selection. Once I'll get another email with "your images will be automatically donated after 7 days", I'll take a look at this platform.

Unfortunately it's not there (at least in my case)

Can anybody find a possibility to terminate account for contibutor in these new terms?

I only see a one-sided possibility of termination for Mostphotos there, but not for contributor. Looks like there is no way to terminate account at all. 

15 DURATION AND TERMINATION
15.1 Mostphotos has the right to, without prior notice and in its sole discretion, terminate user accounts and/or to block Users
from the Service in case of, but not limited to, fraudulent usage or breach of these Terms and conditions.


I've emailed Mostphotos support but they just do not answer.

Thief makes screenshots from stock videos, blurs them and sells on Shutterstock

https://www.shutterstock.com/g/Didik+yulianto

Check if yours are also there.

I've sent several emails and also contacted via website form with request to close my Crestock account and remove my images from Crestock, Masterfile and all their partners.

No answer at all and they keep selling my files. Looks like the just decided to steal our contents.

Did anyone manage to close Crestock account lately? What can be possibly done to stop this theft?