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StephanKlein
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February 10, 2025
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Bilder bei AdobeStock verkaufen "Ablehnung zum Schutz geistigen Eigentums"

  • February 10, 2025
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Hello everyone, I was in Cologne and took some pictures of the city center, the cathedral and the crane houses, shots that are already available 100x on AdobeStock. Unfortunately my pictures were rejected and I don't understand why... Unfortunately, it only says “Rejection for the protection of intellectual property” but nothing more, even though some of the images already exist 1:1 in exactly the same form. What is that? 😄

 

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RALPH_L
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 10, 2025

The modern architecture is not a small part of a larger landscape but, the main focus point. Here you need the permission of the architect. The train station shows the Logo DB. For that, you need permission of the Deutsche Bahn.

StephanKlein
Participant
February 10, 2025

Hey Ralph, thank you very much. But on AdobeStock there are already hundret pictures from the same buildings, it makes no sense that they get the green light und I'm not, that's what i don't get.

Abambo
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 10, 2025
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Hey Ralph, thank you very much. But on AdobeStock there are already hundret pictures from the same buildings, it makes no sense that they get the green light und I'm not, that's what i don't get.


By @StephanKlein

IP refusals: check for logos and identifiers. Modern building are only accepted as skylines. The other assets already in the database may be declared as editorial use only, or they may have the required property release. 

 

See here for more information: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/reasons-for-content-rejection.html

(please follow also the different links on that page. The page exists also in German.)

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer