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ClusterShot is a facilitator of photo sales. You are licensing the image from the photographer, not from ClusterShot so the responsibility of trademark issues, copyright, etc is with the photographer.

That said we do need to be prudent. Our policy is to remove any blatant and obvious violations as they are noticed, brought up, or reported. We’ve either removed or are in the process of reviewing the trademark violations that you’ve mentioned. Thank you for bringing them to our attention and making the site better as a result.

Regarding model releases, that is also between the buyer and the photographer. We will be building tools to better facilitate that communication between the buyer and seller in the future.

We are working to improve the error notifications and we have increased our Flickr request timeout to handle large accounts.

This should now be fixed if you would like to try again.

Do a search for Lego. Nice logos. If you’re just throwing a site up with images for license, you’d better at least understand what you can & can’t sell. Reputable sites like iStock & Veer’s Image Market don’t have pictures of Lego. Why? You can’t sell it with a royalty-free license.

Images of the Eiffel Tower at night? Same deal. iPods & iPhones? Expect a call from Apple’s lawyers shortly.
http://www.clus...hana/photo11995

$20 for an image that can’t legally be sold as royalty free.

Looking at the license agreement, these images aren’t model released either. Yikes.

And sadly this isn’t gonna keep iStock’s prices in check. They seem of very low quality, and the good ones I found seem to be more expensive than iStock.

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As for our sales being on life-support. Yeah, of course. We’re a new site. At the time this article was written we had less than a 1000 users and 100,000 images (you were missing a zero). Sales aren’t strong at that amount of users/images/exposure. We never expected them to be. There are real sales happening though. At this point that’s a success in our books.

It’s important to point out that ClusterShot isn’t on life-support. It’s a side business of silveorange (www.silverorange.com), which has been around for 10 years. We’re dedicated to seeing it through for as long as we can.

How do we plan to compete with the more established and funded giants? We’re not really concerned with that. We wanted to build a site/system that filled a need we had for selling our own photos and allow others to use it. We thought the way photos were sold was outdated so we built our own way. We’ll continue to make it better. What the competition does isn’t something we can control.

I won’t lie,12% is a number we just made up. It sounded good. This is an experiment. We can’t know the economics of it yet. Hopefully we’ll end up making too much money and have to lower the fee.

how do you expect to compete against more established and better funded companies then CS? and how will you survive on just 12%? i am most interested in your first answer.

i tried contacting them about uploading my portfolio and never heard back a word and its been over three months. i have also heard that sales are on life support and none have been spoken about. we will see but i would not hold my breath from my dealings with them.

with 10000 images you are not going to find a lot of relevant content and IS has over 5 mm images.

Speaking as a designer, there aren’t too many photos on this site I would consider for any current projects.

Snapizzi aims at event and portrait photographers, but amateurs too. Unique tagging technology simplifies capturing, managing and selling event and portrait photos online.

Snapizzi was featured in Layers Magazine after this year’s Photoshop World:
http://www.laye...-tutorials.html