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Posted: 5/25/2017 5:03:25 PM EDT
Petapixel just broke it.  Basically if you approve a photo for their marketplace, they'll sell it elsewhere without asking and removing your attribution.  You'll supposedly get paid in a few months.

So here are the basic details that 500px photographers should be aware of:
1. 500px is offering photos according to the 500px and Adobe Stock/Fotolia Partnership
2. Photographers are not given credit only on Fotolia due to limitations with partner collections on this platform, but the image is attributed to authors on Adobe Stock.
3. Although it may seem at first that proceeds from sales are going to someone but not to the photographers, eventually, after several months, the money should find its way to your “sales” section.
4. Photographers are completely in the dark during this process, which can last several months
Why does this delay happen? The reason seems to be that 500px receives monthly, quarterly, and sometimes even bi-annual sales reports, then waits for full payments from the partners (in this case Adobe Stock) before they process the sales in their own system.
Link Posted: 5/25/2017 5:48:50 PM EDT
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Fuck that noise.  500px holds all the cards, and you might not even realize they're capitalizing on your work.
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Fuck that noise.  500px holds all the cards, and you might not even realize they're capitalizing on your work.
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Yup.  Never uploaded anything that wasn't watermarked to their site.  Closed my account a month or two ago, because I was getting zero benefit from having the account.
Link Posted: 5/25/2017 11:40:11 PM EDT
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500px account closed.

Flickr may be getting closed at some point soon. Got an email said they sold out to Verizon or some shit.
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Yup with new TOS, etc.  Kinda 'eh' on that one.  Trying to come up with somewhere decent other than deviantart for my photos at this point.
Link Posted: 5/26/2017 2:00:43 AM EDT
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Yup with new TOS, etc.  Kinda 'eh' on that one.  Trying to come up with somewhere decent other than deviantart for my photos at this point.
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500px account closed.

Flickr may be getting closed at some point soon. Got an email said they sold out to Verizon or some shit.
Yup with new TOS, etc.  Kinda 'eh' on that one.  Trying to come up with somewhere decent other than deviantart for my photos at this point.
Any major changes in the TOS  ?
Link Posted: 5/26/2017 2:17:22 AM EDT
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Any major changes in the TOS  ?
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500px account closed.

Flickr may be getting closed at some point soon. Got an email said they sold out to Verizon or some shit.
Yup with new TOS, etc.  Kinda 'eh' on that one.  Trying to come up with somewhere decent other than deviantart for my photos at this point.
Any major changes in the TOS  ?
Not really.

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Link Posted: 5/26/2017 2:46:55 AM EDT
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Not really but their TOS kinda fucks you already.

CONTENT SUBMITTED OR MADE AVAILABLE FOR INCLUSION ON THE YAHOO SERVICES
Yahoo does not claim ownership of Content you submit or make available for inclusion on the Yahoo Services. However, with respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo Services, you grant Yahoo the following worldwide, royalty-free and non-exclusive license(s), as applicable:
  1. With respect to Content you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of Yahoo Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Yahoo Services solely for the purposes of providing and promoting the specific Yahoo Group to which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Yahoo Services and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo removes such Content from the Yahoo Services.
  2. With respect to photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo Services other than Yahoo Groups, the license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly perform and publicly display such Content on the Yahoo Services solely for the purpose for which such Content was submitted or made available. This license exists only for as long as you elect to continue to include such Content on the Yahoo Services and will terminate at the time you remove or Yahoo removes such Content from the Yahoo Services.
  3. With respect to Content other than photos, graphics, audio or video you submit or make available for inclusion on publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo Services other than Yahoo Groups, the perpetual, irrevocable and fully sublicensable license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display such Content (in whole or in part) and to incorporate such Content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed.
"Publicly accessible" areas of the Yahoo Services are those areas of the Yahoo network of properties that are intended by Yahoo to be available to the general public. By way of example, publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo Services would include Yahoo Message Boards and portions of Yahoo Groups and Flickr that are open to both members and visitors. However, publicly accessible areas of the Yahoo Services would not include portions of Yahoo Groups that are limited to members, Yahoo services intended for private communication such as Yahoo Mail or Yahoo Messenger, or areas off of the Yahoo network of properties such as portions of World Wide Web sites that are accessible via hypertext or other links but are not hosted or served by Yahoo.
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That's basically just allowing them to display the image as you ask them to when you upload it.  That clause doesn't let them do anything else with it.
Link Posted: 5/26/2017 2:55:02 AM EDT
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That's basically just allowing them to display the image as you ask them to when you upload it.  That clause doesn't let them do anything else with it.
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Reread it and you are right.  Skipped a word around where it says 'modify or adapt.'  Readling legalese when you are pissed about something isn't the best plan  
Link Posted: 5/26/2017 3:10:30 AM EDT
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Reread it and you are right.  Skipped a word around where it says 'modify or adapt.'  Readling legalese when you are pissed about something isn't the best plan  
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That's basically just allowing them to display the image as you ask them to when you upload it.  That clause doesn't let them do anything else with it.
Reread it and you are right.  Skipped a word around where it says 'modify or adapt.'  Readling legalese when you are pissed about something isn't the best plan  
It would be so nice if they would just put things in English, wouldn't it?
Link Posted: 5/26/2017 5:48:08 AM EDT
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It would be so nice if they would just put things in English, wouldn't it?
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That's basically just allowing them to display the image as you ask them to when you upload it.  That clause doesn't let them do anything else with it.
Reread it and you are right.  Skipped a word around where it says 'modify or adapt.'  Readling legalese when you are pissed about something isn't the best plan  
It would be so nice if they would just put things in English, wouldn't it?
But then lawyers couldn't charge high rates.
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I heard that!
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But then lawyers couldn't charge high rates.
I heard that!
Who let the penguin in here?
Link Posted: 5/26/2017 7:23:30 AM EDT
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Who let the penguin in here?
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But then lawyers couldn't charge high rates.
I heard that!
Who let the penguin in here?
Maybe he got bitten by a radioactive pro bono lawyer, making Aimless transform into the penguin we know now. Rumor says that if you stand in front of a mirror at midnight, holding a court brief and a blank check, you can summon the penguin to your aid if you are lucky. 

Edit: this is why I shouldn't post in the middle of the night. 
Link Posted: 5/26/2017 7:37:34 PM EDT
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But then lawyers couldn't charge high rates.
I heard that!
Oh lawdy!  Bird comes back from camping and starts poking his beak in dark and dusty corners!
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