500px commercial licensing?

[runnah]

Good? Bad? Worth it or not?

 

[D-B-J]

How much does it cost? I don't use 500px, but I'm interested to see if others think it's worth it. Does it allow you to sell photo's?

 

[runnah]

How much does it cost? I don't use 500px, but I'm interested to see if others think it's worth it. Does it allow you to sell photo's?

Free. Sent me an email. Hopefully I will be fabulously rich.

 

[D-B-J]

How much does it cost? I don't use 500px, but I'm interested to see if others think it's worth it. Does it allow you to sell photo's?

Free. Sent me an email. Hopefully I will be fabulously rich.

I tried to sell with etsy to become fabulously rich, and so far I've made nothing... so.. Best of luck!

 

[xj0hnx]

I don't even bother with their whole license thing, there's some of the best photos I've ever seen on there, and every hour it seems something just mindblowing is posted, so I doubt anyone's going to be buying my pics there lol.

 

[runnah]

I tried to sell with etsy to become fabulously rich, and so far I've made nothing... so.. Best of luck!

I will wave to you from my helicopter.

 

[D-B-J]

I tried to sell with etsy to become fabulously rich, and so far I've made nothing... so.. Best of luck!

I will wave to you from my helicopter.

I'd love a helicopter ride if someone of your soon-to-be high social standing can tolerate a bourgeois such as myself.

 

[vintagesnaps]

Did you read their Terms? Well maybe not actually read, it's more like did you look at them and try to slog thru and make sense out of them? I have to say if the terms on a site are ridiculously convoluted I at least skim through and more often than not I'll find a deal breaker and not end up using a site.

 

[runnah]

Did you read their Terms? Well maybe not actually read, it's more like did you look at them and try to slog thru and make sense out of them? I have to say if the terms on a site are ridiculously convoluted I at least skim through and more often than not I'll find a deal breaker and not end up using a site.

No I didn't read because it's confusing on purpose. I tried it with a couple shots that I can retake if things go pear shaped.

 

[Derrel]

Isn't the gist of it that they, 500px, get 70%, and the photographer gets 30%, with which to buy a big jar of lube???

 

[DarkShadow]

Yea what a hosing that is.

 

[Coasty]

Isn't the gist of it that they, 500px, get 70%, and the photographer gets 30%, with which to buy a big jar of lube???

Are you suggesting that no lube would be the better option?


Surely you don’t have to spend all the 30% on lube; they make smaller containers of that stuff I hear.


Unless of course, if the pic sold for just $5.00 they yes, 30% for lube is fair.

 

[lennon33x]

I also got an email for it. Granted, I'm a hobby photographer, and my images just sit there for everyone to bask in their infinite interwebness. So any monies (and lube) which I receive shall be surplus. I did read over the licensing agreement. And then I got to this part:

Licensee cannot:
Falsely represent, expressly or impliedly, that Licensee is the original creator of a visual work

that derives a substantial part of its artistic components from the Images

I'm the licensee. Does that mean that I can't say, "Hey look! My picture's on a card in Target!" Or is it the whole idea that it's a card?

 

[Nevermore1]

I also got an email for it. Granted, I'm a hobby photographer, and my images just sit there for everyone to bask in their infinite interwebness. So any monies (and lube) which I receive shall be surplus. I did read over the licensing agreement. And then I got to this part:

Licensee cannot:
Falsely represent, expressly or impliedly, that Licensee is the original creator of a visual work

that derives a substantial part of its artistic components from the Images

I'm the licensee. Does that mean that I can't say, "Hey look! My picture's on a card in Target!" Or is it the whole idea that it's a card?

Wouldn't you be the licenser? That sounds to me like someone may purchase the image to use and make changes to it (add/remove something, change the coloring etc) and once those changes are made they still can't take credit (or at least full credit) for the work.

 

[lambertpix]

I got an email, but haven't looked over the license agreements yet. I'm inclined to give a couple images a run to see if anything happens. I'm certainly not expecting a change in lifestyle. ;-)

As it is, I'm not earning any money at all on those shots.