I wonder why this stock company obliges contributors to sign a very formal hard copy contract for 3 years ! The contract is renewed automatically unless you write them a letter to send by post in Spain 90 days before renewal !
This is the only dinosaur doing that in this area (Getty, Alamy, Corbis or microstock agencies are living in the 21st century and sign online electronic agreements).
Then, when you realise that as a contributor you can't even remove your own image from your portfolio on their website once you've made the mistake to upload them, then you start to see where the trick lies.
They basically possess your image for good once you have uploaded it, you can't remove it and you have signed a stupid contract with a Spanish firm (sic) under their own laws for years...
Is there a better way to screw photographers ? No one is doing that in this stock business...
On top of that, everything is super slow with them. They live in the 19th century, laxity is their motto. Uploads are super slow (old ftp system), approving images takes up to 30 days (wow!).
Answering queries and emails doesn't belong to their culture obviously. Most of time, they simply don't answer.
As long as they have grabbed your pictures, you can be forgotten and ignored by these "professionals".
If it was only amateurism with no malicious intents, I would maybe smile about it, but after having made the mistake to participate to this crumbling vessel, you start to fear for your copyright and personal property... Incompetence can't explain everything...
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