You really dont know the difference between a more or less documentary photo of a painting (which can be considered as a copy) or a photo of a model which has a tatoo she paid for (which can be considered as a own, new artwork)?
Sean, this really surprises me!
If this would be true than the tattooartist would have a kind of sovereign power above the person the tattoo is on.
The model paid for a tattoo and after that she is not free anymore to do what she wants??
this is the most weird concept / idea i have ever heard of (beside timetravel)

@ppdd
what surprises me too is the absence of knowledge.
If someone makes a painting out of my photograph that painting is a piece of art which stands for itself if it has a certain level (Sch�pfungsh�he http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sch%C3%B6pfungsh%C3%B6he)
thats a fact - even in law and even in international law.
so why should i complain about that??

We downsize all as much as possible.

Hi,
usually the process is like this:
1: FTP Upload
2: Edit your images and sort them into editorial / commercial
3: Click on "publish"

Now i found hundreds of images online wich i have not published yet!!
I just uploaded them via FTP - thats all!

If you upload editorials they seem to go online directly and as commercials - and this might cause a lot of legal trouble.

Axel

BTW: Yesterday the Website was down because of "maintenance"



EDIT

We wrote a mail to Mostphotos where we told them that they publish without waiting that the images are tagged and that we have send a supportrequest regarding that issue yesterday

Supporter Hanna wrote back that the tech-teem got informed and that they did not get the supportrequest we sended the day before.

We wrote back:

Hi Hanna,
then you found a second severe bug - your contact-form is obviously not working because this was the way we sended our support-request.
Please note that we will not take any responsabilty for eventual upcoming lawsuits if you publish files before we even could make appropriate settings to the files (editorial / commercial).

And now second supporter wrote:

Regarding commercial and editorial images. It is the photographer's responsibility to ensure that the images are tagged correctly. If you as a photographer have editorial images, you can add and tag this in the Media Cloud in your settings. Regarding legal issues, it is the photographer who is responsible for their own photos, not the buyer or Mostphotos.

FYI: Our tech-team is working on a esier solution for editorial and commercial images. So that it will be easier to tag them right.

we wrote back:

Hi,
yes, this is true.
But if YOU publish images BEFORE we can make the settings its obvious your responibilty.

Like said before:
You publish files directly after we upload by FTP and this is not like it is supposed to be.

I am speechless.

sorry, but no.
All files are processed like always, checked and its def. not the first time we upload to P5.
Despite that....the same files made no problems at SS, DP, Revo, 123RF and some others.
Clear enough, no?

@Ron
yes, i did consider that too.
Nuts that you have to do such tricks

but almost no one scrolls through ports.
people use the search or the collections.
and if i search a blue smurf on a carnival i want a blue smurf and i am not satified if do not find them because reviewers think that a blue smurf is a similar to a green gnome only because they were on the same event

@all
yep...200 photos of Tokio must be enough!!
Its one city - so every batch with more than 200 images must have duplicates / similars , right??
Why not restrict on lets say 10 images per gender?
If you have seen one portrait you have seen them all.

Take care not to become as inconsistent as Shutterstock:
http://www.microstockgroup.com/pond5/uh-oh!-pond-is-at-it-again-(/
http://www.microstockgroup.com/pond5/photos-returned-for-camera-information-what-the-f/

@depositphotos
you should at least correct the german version (saying "Woman Big Tits lying with empty textspace" / "Frau Grosse Titten liegend mit leeren textfreiraum ":
http://de.depositphotos.com/30294109/stock-photo-Woman-big-breast-lying-with-empty-copy-space.html
thats offending and sexism!

Its hard enough to explain "Non-Models" the concept of stockphotography
And its not helpful if you try to explain that it is safe to upload to a stockegency and that they do not use images in a dubios way and then you start your browser, open up Depositphotos and stumble upon headlines which look like cheap porn-spam.

not convincing though.

Like i said:
Uploaded 40 --> around 30 issues.
Backend of SS says something like "Broken clips / Metadata missing".


Site-Uploader:
I dont know if that works.
We never used that because our batches are to big and when we deliver we deliver other agencies at the same time.
And FTP gives a log-opportunity - site uploaders not (as far as i know)

Hi Jonathan,
i am not sure if watermarks are an appropriate measurebecause it makes people buy somewhere else more than it protects against licence violations.
We bought 0 files at audiojungle, 1 file on P5 and around 100 at soundtaxi in the last three months -although the portfolio on P5 and envato is bigger than at soundtaxi.
And i know some befriended companies (i run a marketing company as well where we need to buy a lot of images / footage / audio for our clients) feel the same.

I do understand that its more dificult with audio than with images but nevertheless i am convinced that at least this kind of watermark (very loud, very short intervall, very disturbing) does more damage than it provides.

Just a short idea:
Do you know these "photographers" which plaster their images with watermarks?
Or even worse - these people who block the whole context-menu / right-clicks and annoy every serious user with a pop-up, saying "These images are protected".
Am i a potential criminal for this photographers only because i want to use my context-menu?

What i want to say:
This exemplary person sends a clear signal to its users:"I am full of closefistedness, greed and fear".
Wouldnt it be much better if this person would show much more sovereignty, generosity and strenght?
Wouldnt that bring more positive effect than the savings he made by all his gollum-like "MY PRECIoUS!!" / Fort-Knox measures?

People steal a lot from us too.
What to do now??
Put watermarks everywhere , block the context-menu, write in headers and red-flaming letters everywhere that copying is not allowed?
Means: I tell around 500 users every day "We dont trust you, we think youre a criminal and the only reason you are here is because you want to rob us"?
Just because some idiots steal our work?
This is like i would throw my Leica after a running thief who has stolen my lenscap.

We have one line of small text in our footer - recomended by our lawyer - and thats it.
Once a year we hire a company to check for unlicenced material on other websites and when we find them we send the violator a bill.
If they dont pay we send our lawyer. Done

I hope you dont take that personal.
I really like P5 as a contributor.
But i would as well like it very much as a buyer too.

Regards axel

We dont tag manually because this would need to much time with bigger bulks.
We use IPTC embedded in the image and for clips we use the CSV-import.

CSV contains:
Clipid,OriginalFilename,Copyright,Price,name,City,Region,Country,Created,Keywords,KeywordsCheckbox,PublicBin,Description,ImageType

No Additional Info, Curator notes.

Although there seems to be no way to batchtag after you applied a CSV.

If you use CSV as well it would be nice if you tell me what i missed
regards axel


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Solved. Found a solution

Ok - its a blown up JPG.
That means it has at least the resolution we uploaded it.

That in fact means "maximum resolution".

Interesting - some of your responses.

Maybe the enemy is not the exploiting agencies.
Looks like the worst enemy of a photographer is his collegue, who f*u*cks up the whole market, instead of showing solidarity.

Dog eat Dog, right?
Good appetite

Hi
we found a subscription-sale (Resolution TIFF) in our stats - earning 35 Cent .
Now we had a look on the frontend and the only Resolution we could find is this one:

TIFF    5295x7942px (120.3 MB)    44.8cm x 67.2cm@300 dpi

Does that mean that DT sells your stuff for peanuts in a resolution so that any buyer could print your images on squaremeters of canvas?

regards axel

Website completly down for a long time some days ago, always trouble with CSV and now its not possible to delete rejected photos.

1: Go to your backend and choose rejected
2: scroll down and click on "show all rejected photos"
3: try to click the red cross for "delete" with any image

all red crosses lead to: http://buz</div%3E%3C/td%3E%3Ctd%20align=center%3E%C2%A0%3Ca%20href=

oh boy...
did they let their interns practice some coding?