Removed from stock
Recently I received a mail from tookapic saying that a photo of mine has been removed from the stock.
I've very well understood that my photo remains on tookapic and the picture is "only" no more available for sale.
Particularly for this photo (tookapic.com/photos/437379), I am not sure the reasons shown in the mail text is corrected: "...because it contains a logo or a trademark to which you probably don't have any rights", and I would like to explain you this symbol.
This is not a trademark (or even a logo) is just something, with enormous variation, that identifies a cigarette seller-shop in France.
For otherwise, the photo published one day later, this one (tookapic.com/photos/438666), in my opinion, contains a trademark and for the moment it is still in stock... (as well as many others)
Regards,
Nilson
Nilson Menezes Be cool! I am not intending to be banned from tookapic entirely...
In the future, I will post the photos with "all rights reserved" if they contain:
- trademarks,
- logos (trademarked or not!),
- people,
- private property façades,
- and so many others things.
As I have nor cats nor dogs, I could still post snapshots to sell, from the sky, wildflowers, wild animals, sunsets, and some other things (probably much lesser that I can perceive...)
P.S. I insist that Tabac sign is not a trademarked logo, just an "enseigne" (service-public.fr/professionne...), but I respect your decision. I will grab over my 500 clichés to find if there is something other (probably yes) that violate the rule.
Paweł Kadysz I am cool 😎 I've never banned anyone from tookapic for selling photos against the rules. I did block few people from stock though.
One more thing - you can sell photos of people. You need to have a consent though. So candid street portraits of people are not allowed. But a self portrait or a photo of your friend that explicitly told you "You can put this photo on sale" are fine.
And it's not me that came up with the rules. Lawyers did.
Nilson Menezes I would like to precise also concerning your question stated ("Are you doing this on purpose?") on the first phrase of your first reply.
I have posted the mini logo photo BEFORE have received your mail showing me that my Tabacco sign is removed from stock. Be sure that it was not my intention to test tookapic administrators reactivity, and I respect entirely your work and devotion.
Paweł Kadysz Sure, my bad.
Romain
Hi, I understand you very well @Nilson , because sometimes there is a "thin red line" about the interpretation of the rules.... (a very, very small logo in the background, a brand of the car in front of the parking.... etc...)
Now, I'm playing "safe" and look twice before I take a picture.... or.... I upload the picture for personal use... And I ask Mrs. Google to check if its a registered brand/mark.
Nilson Menezes
It's good to remind this.
By principle, I do not retouch hardly my photos. For me, a good photo is done when you trigger the camera. However, I can allow myself some corrections concerning the tone curve and/or remove certain spots of the sensor. I use silkypix as software and always take shots in raw format.
Satoshi T I am also have principle not to delete objects with Postprocess as much as possible except when synthesizing itself as artwork. As @Nilson says, I want to put in a habit of thinking when trigger the camera. About the product logo, now I do in three ways: making it out of frame, making it out focus, making it shadow of backlighting.
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Paweł Kadysz Are you doing this on purpose?
I mean putting photos with trademarks on sale? This is against the seller agreement, against the terms of rules and can result in:
a) banning you from selling photos
b) banning you from tookapic entirely
c) getting sued by trademark owner
When you started selling photos you were asked to read and agree to the terms which clearly state that you are NOT allowed to sell photos with trademarks. You agreed.
Photos are not removed from stock automatically. I, personally, have to go through them manually, one by one and remove those that are against the rules. So you, testing if a photo with the Mini logo will go through are actually giving me more work.
As for the Tabac sign - as mentioned before - there are 74.000 stock photos on tookapic right now and I'm the only one that moderates those. If photo includes something that looks like a logo - I remove it. That's it. If I were to look for trademark licenses for every single sign I find in the photos you post I'd be spending 24/7 doing just that.
So please... before you put a photo on sale double check if it does not violate any rules. I'd really appreciate it.
Thank you.