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Subject: [Leica] 500px.com
From: gerry.walden at me.com (Gerry Walden)
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 21:15:15 +0100
References: <68A3A039-7163-4C08-8D29-638555602AD9@me.com> <CA+yJO1C9QPNqyAmKj1eoDNQNPhggzLbFyn1nzS8x-x0jEuO5hQ@mail.gmail.com> <7AF6B5AAC6BA45B99E874898406F82DF@syneticfeba505>

They do have some pretty well respected people listed who I don't think 
would be on there if it was risky. However I have now removed my work as a 
precaution.

Gerry

Sent from my iPhone

On 21 Apr 2012, at 20:55, tedgrant at shaw.ca wrote:

> I may have missed something in all this? With me that's always possible! 
> ;-)
> 
> "HOWEVER, I DO NOT SEE ANYTHNG ABOUT COMPENSATION!!!"  ??????????????????
> If your photographs are posted and used?  Or is this just another bunch of 
> crooked stock people sucking the blood out of decent hard working 
> photographers??????? And catering to the collections of millions of 
> iphone/pads/ do-dad/ thingmebobber recording devices where they use your 
> picture! They collect money! You get your name under the photo!!! 
> .............        HOOP-TEE-DO!!!!!!!!!!!
> 
> Anyone with a greater indepth on what kind of operaton this is????
> 
> THANK YOU!
> 
> cheers,
> ted
> 
> 
> 
> Tina Manley offered:
> Subject: Re: [Leica] 500px.com
> 
> 
>> You might want to watch out for the terms:
>> 
>> 
>>  1. By posting Content to the Site you hereby grant to 500px a
>>  non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the 
>> right
>>  to sublicense) to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, adapt, publicly
>>  perform and publicly display such Content in connection with the 
>> Services.
>>  This license will exist for the period during which the Content is posted
>>  on the Site and will automatically terminate upon the removal of the
>>  Content from the Site;
>>  2. The license granted to 500px includes the right to use your Content
>>  fully or partially for promotional reasons and to distribute and
>>  redistribute your Content to other parties, web-sites, applications, and
>>  other entities, provided such Content is attributed to you in accordance
>>  with the credits (i.e. username, profile picture, photo title,
>>  descriptions, tags, and other accompanying information) if any and as
>>  appropriate, all as submitted to 500px by you;
>> 
>> You are giving them license to sublicense anything you post.
>> 
>> Tina
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, Apr 21, 2012 at 4:05 AM, Gerry Walden <gerry.walden at me.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have been trialling 500px but cannot, for some reason, get my head
>>> around it. It seems difficult to use, there is very little guidance, and
>>> there is no way of knowing (as far as I can see) any way of knowing 
>>> whether
>>> anyone is looking at my images.
>>> 
>>> If there are any other uses out there can they give me opinions please?
>>> 
>>> Thanks!
>>> 
>>> Gerry
>>> 
>>> Gerry Walden
>>> +44 (0)23 8046 3076 or
>>> +44 (0)797 287 7932
>>> www.gwpics.com
>>> 
>>> 
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>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -- 
>> Tina Manley, ASMP
>> www.tinamanley.com
>> 
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In reply to: Message from gerry.walden at me.com (Gerry Walden) ([Leica] 500px.com)
Message from images at comporium.net (Tina Manley) ([Leica] 500px.com)
Message from tedgrant at shaw.ca (tedgrant at shaw.ca) ([Leica] 500px.com)