losdemas Posted November 13, 2020 Author Share Posted November 13, 2020 11 hours ago, Alamy said: Hi everyone, First of all thanks for pointing this out. We understand this situation is not ideal and are looking into the root cause of the duplicates with PA media. Many thanks, Elisabeth Thank you. Look forward to hearing the reasoning, actions taken, and what is to be done to ensure that everyone can compete fairly & equally going forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geogphotos Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelbennett Posted November 13, 2020 Share Posted November 13, 2020 and again https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/arid-40078517.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 so PA just loads these to their Live News equivalent every time there is hospital in news? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacecadet Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 Flipping Guardian as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
noelbennett Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 That example from The Cork Examiner is interesting because I have never seen an Alamy credit on an Irish newspaper. It opens up interesting possibilities if Alamy images were to appear under the PA name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geogphotos Posted November 14, 2020 Share Posted November 14, 2020 (edited) 12 minutes ago, noelbennett said: That example from The Cork Examiner is interesting because I have never seen an Alamy credit on an Irish newspaper. It opens up interesting possibilities if Alamy images were to appear under the PA name. CATE MCCURRY, PA They are offering a complete package of story and image so can slant it to whatever market they want. Now, that would be a good idea for Alamy. Edited November 14, 2020 by geogphotos Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted November 24, 2020 Author Share Posted November 24, 2020 Bump. Any news, Elisabeth? Well, there's this: Byline Times, 23 November 2020 Hidden TRAUMA A&E Nurse Reveals Abuse of Disabled by Family Carers Take your pick: https://www.alamy.com/search.html?imageurl=ac12c123-edd5-4fcd-aad4-c85cb31bf366.jpg&mode=0 (79 identical images) 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 (edited) 57 minutes ago, losdemas said: Bump. Any news, Elisabeth? Well, there's this: Byline Times, 23 November 2020 Hidden TRAUMA A&E Nurse Reveals Abuse of Disabled by Family Carers Take your pick: https://www.alamy.com/search.html?imageurl=ac12c123-edd5-4fcd-aad4-c85cb31bf366.jpg&mode=0 (79 identical images) Note that they all have different date taken dates. The oldest is G7DTN9. Date taken: 3 October 2014. And with G7DTN9 as id # it must have been here for quite a while. wim edit: good to see they're all RM. Edited November 24, 2020 by wiskerke Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 2 minutes ago, wiskerke said: Note that they all have different date taken dates. The oldest is G7DTN9. Date taken: 3 October 2014. And with G7DTN9 as id # it must have been here for quite a while. wim i wonder if date taken is an EXIF problem, because they are all captioned with similar date and uploaded likely through live news as "From File" (all have note "may contain imperfection") Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wiskerke Posted November 24, 2020 Share Posted November 24, 2020 Just now, meanderingemu said: i wonder if date taken is an EXIF problem, because they are all captioned with similar date and uploaded likely through live news as "From File" (all have note "may contain imperfection") Maybe some sort of automation going on. Could be deliberate though. Could we learn from this? Should we also try it? 😂 wim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted November 25, 2020 Author Share Posted November 25, 2020 (edited) 12 hours ago, wiskerke said: Maybe some sort of automation going on. Could be deliberate though. Could we learn from this? Should we also try it? 😂 wim I'm tempted. Kind of ironic that my only LiveNews sales (before I got pushed) were 3 from the same shoot that I was told prior to upload that I shouldn't bother with 'cos they could be sourced from stock. I had to phone to push them through - and got half a dozen good sales. ...not that I'm sour or anything... 🤣 EDIT: Wish that there was a Pause/Play button on these gifs. Funny once, but when you are forced to watch them on repeat while reading a post...🥱 Won't delete it this time as this post has been commented on mentioning the gif. Edited November 25, 2020 by losdemas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sb photos Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 7 hours ago, losdemas said: I'm tempted. Kind of ironic that my only LiveNews sales (before I got pushed) were 3 from the same shoot that I was told prior to upload that I shouldn't bother 'cos they could be sourced from stock. I had to phone to push them through - and got half a dozen good sales. ...not that I'm sour or anything... 🤣 Looking at the gif reminds I used to have first a Mac Plus, then an SE30 looking like the 2 Macs above. The SE30 had a 40MB hard drive, how things have advanced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alamy Posted November 25, 2020 Share Posted November 25, 2020 Hi everyone, We have been migrating millions of images into the platform and this is an example of a problem that should be fixed soon. As with any duplication issue from any contributor, we gather all the required info before releasing the fix and removing the duplicates. Please note that there are no special favours involved. All the best, Elisabeth 3 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
losdemas Posted November 25, 2020 Author Share Posted November 25, 2020 20 minutes ago, Alamy said: Hi everyone, We have been migrating millions of images into the platform and this is an example of a problem that should be fixed soon. As with any duplication issue from any contributor, we gather all the required info before releasing the fix and removing the duplicates. Please note that there are no special favours involved. All the best, Elisabeth Thank you, Elisabeth. Good to hear that this issue will be addressed soon. All I needed to know. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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