geogphotos Posted April 15, 2022 Share Posted April 15, 2022 (edited) I have just spent an hour or so looking through my monthly sales report from another agency. Unlike Alamy I am given information about the client and country they are in. It helps enormously seeing what sells to different clients and territories. It helps enormously in monitoring copyright infringements. The old argument that Alamy has to keep this information secret seems extremely outdated especially give today's level of fees - contributors are hardly going to offer lower fees! Might I suggest that in terms of tracking infringements it would be beneficlal to contributors and to Alamy if this information was shared. Edited April 15, 2022 by geogphotos 1 2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Crean Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 10 hours ago, geogphotos said: I have just spent an hour or so looking through my monthly sales report from another agency. Unlike Alamy I am given information about the client and country they are in. It helps enormously seeing what sells to different clients and territories. It helps enormously in monitoring copyright infringements. The old argument that Alamy has to keep this information secret seems extremely outdated especially give today's level of fees - contributors are hardly going to offer lower fees! Might I suggest that in terms of tracking infringements it would be beneficlal to contributors and to Alamy if this information was shared. I've just made this very point to contributor services as after finding usages that I was unsure whether they were genuine licences or not reported I send an email querying them so they then had to check with the sales team and let me know that they had in fact been licensed and reported for said usages. So, time was wasted on all sides which would have been avoided had they just put the relevant info in the original sales report... Over to you @Alamy Phil 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geogphotos Posted April 16, 2022 Author Share Posted April 16, 2022 It would certainly save a lot of time for everybody. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted April 16, 2022 Share Posted April 16, 2022 3 hours ago, Phil Crean said: I've just made this very point to contributor services as after finding usages that I was unsure whether they were genuine licences or not reported I send an email querying them so they then had to check with the sales team and let me know that they had in fact been licensed and reported for said usages. which i will point again to Alamy, contributors are Obligated to do under section 16.7 of the agreement, at this point most uncredited usage look "suspicious" to me if i don't have complete information about the licence. (also note Alamy this obligation applies to All Content, not just exclusive) 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panthera tigris Posted April 20, 2022 Share Posted April 20, 2022 I agree Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jose Decio Molaro Posted April 23, 2022 Share Posted April 23, 2022 I know of only one that passes the sales information I have the information of the country where it was sold. I don't receive any more information, I work with five Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M.Chapman Posted April 24, 2022 Share Posted April 24, 2022 On 15/04/2022 at 21:32, geogphotos said: I have just spent an hour or so looking through my monthly sales report from another agency. Unlike Alamy I am given information about the client and country they are in. It helps enormously seeing what sells to different clients and territories. It helps enormously in monitoring copyright infringements. The old argument that Alamy has to keep this information secret seems extremely outdated especially give today's level of fees - contributors are hardly going to offer lower fees! Might I suggest that in terms of tracking infringements it would be beneficlal to contributors and to Alamy if this information was shared. I'd also like to see downloads reported so I know which images it's worth doing a reverse image search on for usages. Mark 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meanderingemu Posted April 28, 2022 Share Posted April 28, 2022 On 24/04/2022 at 13:40, M.Chapman said: I'd also like to see downloads reported so I know which images it's worth doing a reverse image search on for usages. Mark Actually this is something that should be provided to Alamy's Infringement team. All downloads> x months with no reported sale. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geogphotos Posted April 29, 2022 Author Share Posted April 29, 2022 (edited) On 24/04/2022 at 17:40, M.Chapman said: I'd also like to see downloads reported so I know which images it's worth doing a reverse image search on for usages. Mark I can understand why Alamy would not want to share download information - somebody has shown an interest in an image and got a price but not yet bought. But for ones where a license exists why not share that with us? It would save Alamy staff time answering endless queries and allow us to check for and report infringements - work g together rather than the contributors being kept in the dark. As to reverse searches it is definitely worth doing that for all images that have sold especially if they have been used by newspapers/BBC. Edited April 29, 2022 by geogphotos 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geogphotos Posted May 1, 2022 Author Share Posted May 1, 2022 (edited) Interesting to read in Brasilnut's agency sales summary that one of Alamy main competitors at S*Stock Editorial report client names to contributors. EDIT - apparently this information has now been deleted Edited May 2, 2022 by geogphotos 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Panthera tigris Posted May 2, 2022 Share Posted May 2, 2022 I just closed two agencies as part of my retraction from all stock. They both gave me very very detailed accounts of all sales going back 15 years. Surprised me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Gaffen Posted May 11, 2022 Share Posted May 11, 2022 In my experience, that when applying for media accreditation, its becoming more and more common that photographer is asked to provide detailed information about commissioning clients, editors, companies, publishers including whos using the image, where they were used, when they were used etc. etc.. Without this information, its likely the photographer will not be given accreditation. So apart from the good reasons already discussed, above, this is another good reason why it would be very useful if Alamy supplied us with this information. Perhaps Alamy are worried we will cut out the middle man and do business with the client directly? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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