Account verification retaliation

Hi @andrewz72937692 ,

Judging from personal experience I can confidently say it was not because of your reaching out to them about the MR request. I have not seen the content of your request, therefore I cannot say if the content had anything to do with it, but I would want to believe that it has to do with your account and not you. I believe whatever the problem is might have been there for a while and when you send in the request the agent looked in your account and see it. In other words, if you did come to the forum first the issue would have been discovered at a later date. I suggest if you did not get the mail that you reach out to them via the link on your account page.

When you register to start submitting you agreed to submit property release for all property you submit including your personal property. I cannot understand why you would not want to submit a property release for your own work. All you have to do is to fill out the form as owner and artist, submit it and attach all the affected file. You dont't need to use a printed form. You just use the electronic method that eliminates the use of witnesses.

I believe you were asked to submit MR because they're images of people. There is no way the moderator could know they are not real. So if you're asked for MR; you know they're not real; you provide PR. It's as simple as that.

Best wishes

Jacquelin

It appears that, due to ongoing complaints from Buyers, Adobe is routinely pausing accounts with Generative AI assets that do not comply with the guidelines for category, titles, keywords and releases. You should have received an email indicating that your account was suspended, and what you can do about it. I have no reason to think that Adobe would retaliate against Contributors, especially one like yourself who has been on the platform for a while and from whom they're generating revenue.

Adobe may temporarily suspend or permanently terminate a Stock Contributor account for any of the following:
1) Suspicious sales or refund activity (possible shenanigans),
2) They received an official infringement complaint or "take down" notice from a 3rd party.
3) Suspected violation of Stock Contributor User Terms,

4) Spamming the system with junk content,
5) A technical problem that only Stock Support can fix.
Contact Stock Contributor Support: https://contributor.stock.adobe.com/contact

If you don't hear anything within 10 business days (check your spam folder for reply), send a follow-up email.

Don't be silly.  Simply sign a Property Release by you as the "artist" (I use that word loosely because a toddler could create a text-prompt). 

Generative AI requires no artistic talent. It's what you do with AI diffusions afterwards that elevate them from digital dust to artwork.  😉

If you're not incorporating AI into your own artwork, then you have another problem.  According to U.S. Copyright rules, non-human generated content cannot be copyright protected.

https://community.adobe.com/t5/stock-contributors-discussions/u-s-copyright-office-issues-rules-for-generative-ai/m-p/13701243#M58056

Hope that helps.