I To Hans and Simon: Can you PLEASE clarify the license when it comes to selling our photos in any way, shape and form? I think there is a ton of confusion and questions almost daily for clarification. This line in the license is very confusing and not well defined: Don't sell "UNALTERED" copies of an image. Please clarify what "unaltered" means. People are thinking if they take a photo, they simply need to "alter" it in some way, then they can sell it. Many think they can easily run the photo through a quickie filter so the colors change, or haze is added, or noise, or whatever that filter does to "alter" the photo? I think this is INSANE! It is STILL MY PHOTO! I am the one who used my imagination and painstakingly set up, posed the shot and created it using my artistry in Photoshop. A simple click of a filter does not change the fact that the photo is still mine and is being sold! In fact, it is being sold altered from my original colors and artistry just to meet this "altered" requirement and in many cases I am appalled at the outcome...strange colors, darkened, etc. I thought this "unaltered" line meant people can use elements of a photo to create a completely new work such as a composite. Take a horse from one photo, a flower field from another photo, a moonbeam from another and combine them into a new creative work. If this is the case, please spell this out clearly. I share my photos here out of sheer love and desire for people to find beautiful photos to use. But, I do not want them sold for someone else's profit. I want them to always be FREE! THANK YOU!!!
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