Burn in hell, shutterstock!
I give you the newest evil to photographers everywhere: Shutterstock.com
Here's how they work: subscribers get to download up to 750 images per month for a flat fee starting at $140 per month. They are allowed to use them however they want. Photographers who submit photos get 20 cents for each time one of their pictures is used.
What's better? They brag that 1000 unlimited COMMERCIAL uses of your images will get you $200.
You couldn't get unlimited commercial use (essentially me giving away my copyright) of any of my images for $200. Not a single damned one. But there are over 13,000 photographers who think this is a good deal.
(Bad language ahead: little children, nuns, and grandparents should not continue)
The only screwjob that could compare with $0.20 for commercial use of any image is an elephant taking indecent sexual liberties with a baby shrew.
Here's how they work: subscribers get to download up to 750 images per month for a flat fee starting at $140 per month. They are allowed to use them however they want. Photographers who submit photos get 20 cents for each time one of their pictures is used.
What's better? They brag that 1000 unlimited COMMERCIAL uses of your images will get you $200.
You couldn't get unlimited commercial use (essentially me giving away my copyright) of any of my images for $200. Not a single damned one. But there are over 13,000 photographers who think this is a good deal.
(Bad language ahead: little children, nuns, and grandparents should not continue)
The only screwjob that could compare with $0.20 for commercial use of any image is an elephant taking indecent sexual liberties with a baby shrew.
posted by Logan C. Adams at 8/16/2005 04:55:00 PM
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