Image Buyers Are Using 500px Prime
Image Buyers Are Using 500px Prime
I put about 50 photos into the 500px Prime licensing service when it was released a few months ago, and I didn't give it a second thought. I went back and checked yesterday, and I had $354 in royalties waiting for me. The average $7 per image won't buy me a new camera, but if I had uploaded a couple of high quality photos per day, the few hundred dollars might have been a few thousand.
Image buyers can get a 20% discount by using the code "jeffsullivan" when they license a photo there. Go license mine!
Photographers, pop on over and say "Hi": http://500px.com/JeffSullivan
Full disclosure: I have no financial or business relationship with 500px other than those royalties I've earned. I'll probably use the site more often now that there's clear incentive.
www.JeffSullivan.com
#stockphotography #500px #commercialphotography
https://prime.500px.com?utm_source=500px&utm_medium=gplus&utm_campaign=prime_affiliate_program&utm_content&discount=JeffSullivan
I put about 50 photos into the 500px Prime licensing service when it was released a few months ago, and I didn't give it a second thought. I went back and checked yesterday, and I had $354 in royalties waiting for me. The average $7 per image won't buy me a new camera, but if I had uploaded a couple of high quality photos per day, the few hundred dollars might have been a few thousand.
Image buyers can get a 20% discount by using the code "jeffsullivan" when they license a photo there. Go license mine!
Photographers, pop on over and say "Hi": http://500px.com/JeffSullivan
Full disclosure: I have no financial or business relationship with 500px other than those royalties I've earned. I'll probably use the site more often now that there's clear incentive.
www.JeffSullivan.com
#stockphotography #500px #commercialphotography
https://prime.500px.com?utm_source=500px&utm_medium=gplus&utm_campaign=prime_affiliate_program&utm_content&discount=JeffSullivan
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ReplyDeleteWell, if only I had images as fine as yours to upload... :)
ReplyDeletedave roberts
ReplyDeleteBetter read 500px's terms and conditions before uploading any of your photos there!
ReplyDeleteAlexander Czernay The one concern I have seen voiced is over granting 500xp exclusive use for commercial marketing of the photo. That would restrict photographers from using their photo commercially (except for a few designated uses like self-promotion), but again that restriction is only relevant if you specifically choose to make sales of that image exclusive to 500px, which is optional:
ReplyDelete"In the event Contributor elects to submit the Images to Company on an exclusive basis, Contributor agrees to not license or distribute the Selected Images or any Images that are similar to any of Selected Images submitted on an exclusive basis to any other party (until the exclusivity expires), and represents that none of the Selected Images (or similars) submitted on an exclusive basis have been previously licensed. Contributor may use any Selected Image or similars submitted for exclusive licensing for personal, non-commercial purposes, such as portfolio, exhibition, single photographer publication, fine art prints, personal website and self-promotion."
http://static.500px.net/docs/contributor_licensing_agreement.pdf
I can't find anything in the terms which prevent a photographer from exercising his or her own commercial use for images not designated as exclusive. For photos designated as exclusive, the allowance of fine art prints, usually referring to sales as I understand common usage of the phrase, seems to conflict with the ban on commercial use in the same sentence, so it would be important to contact 500px to understand their intent and any restrictions created by the language in a legal sense. But again, that only seems to apply if you voluntarily check the box saying that commercial use is exclusive to 500px, and there would be no reason to check that if you want to retain the right to use your own photos commercially.
In some other ways the 500px terms are very attractive, like the ability to opt a photo out of the contract with 30 days notice. The last time I looked at Getty's terms, they wanted any photo they represented not to be marketed for commercial use for a period of 2 years after you took it out of their collection.
Jeff Sullivan I'm using the Chrome plugin "Terms of Service – Didn't Read" to get a quick overview on terms & conditions of various sites.
ReplyDeleteFor 500px they state:
- Waiver of legal actions Discussion
“You shall not have any right to terminate the permissions granted herein, nor to seek, obtain, or enforce any injunctive or other equitable relief against 500px, all of which such rights are hereby expressly and irrevocably waived by you in favour of 500px.”
- Broad copyright license Discussion
The copyright license you grant to 500px is transferable and sublicensable. The copyright license is limited for use “in connection with the Services” which includes promotional uses and redistribution “to other parties, web-sites, applications, and other entities” if you are credited properly. The license on your content terminates when you remove such content.
× 500px Store: Authorship Discussion
“you hereby irrevocably waive all moral rights in your Store Images;”
- 500px Store: your account can be terminated at any time Discussion
“500px may terminate your store account at any time for any reason or no reason. All Store Images remaining in your Store account will be removed by 500px upon termination of your store account.”
- You are responsible for any claim and agree to indemnify them Discussion
You cannot hold 500px responsible for any claim or demand in law which you ever had, or may have. You agree to indemnify them for all claims related to your content or your account, including for any person using your username and password.
+ Pseudonyms allowed Discussion
You do not have to provide your legal name (except for paid accounts for billing purposes) and you can use the service with a pseudonym.
+ The terms are easy to read Discussion
500px provides an easy to read summary of the terms on the right side. This provides a pleaseant reading experience. However some of the summaries are a bit misleading and should not omit important details.
→ Open only to individual photographers and graphic artists Discussion
“Accounts may not be opened by galleries, agents and other market intermediaries and entities who represent photographers and graphic artists or sell their works.”
→ Terms may be changed at any time, but you will be notified. Discussion
They can change the terms of service any time they see fit, but they will notify the user. Your use of the service supposedly constitutes acceptance of the changes in the terms.
That sounds like a useful plugin Alexander Czernay .
ReplyDeleteTo Read All Of The Privacy Policies You Encounter, You'd Need To Take A Month Off From Work Each Year
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120420/10560418585/to-read-all-privacy-policies-you-encounter-youd-need-to-take-month-off-work-each-year.shtml
That's only for privacy policies. It would be much more time if you read terms of service and end user license agreements too.