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Newbie question about not accepting trademarks or trade dress

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
April 6, 2024
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I am confused on why some of my uploaded content was rejected due to having a visible product logo. There are other contributors who have entire collections of brand name product "portraits" uploaded (e.g., a bottle of Heinz 57). How is that not showing a trademark/tradedress? What am I not understanding? Thank you!

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Nancy OShea

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Anything you submit to Stock must be 100% your own and free of branding. If it's not, you must submit signed release forms from the entity that owns it, which you'll never obtain from a major brand like Heinz Foods.

Editorial Use Only images cannot be used for commercial purposes. They are limited to use in journalism or for reporting purposes. To submit Illustrative Editorial images, you must be a Stock Contributor in good standing with a history of 100 or more sales/downloads. But you won't sell as many because of their Editorial Use Only limitation.

Hope that helps.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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Bitsy BAuthor

Participant

That does help. Your explanation is very helpful.

I still I don't understand how this other account is technically doing it (or perhaps WHY they are doing it, since that certainly have had 100 sales). They literally have pages and pages and PAGES of brand name products, popular restaurants, universities, etc.

Thanks again.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

@Bitsy B,

TWO POSSIBILITIES:

The other contributor is offering Editorial Use Only content (most likely).
Or the other contributor submitted signed release forms to use the brands commercially (least likely).

Successful Stock contributors don't concern themselves with what other contributors are doing. They stay in their own lane and focus on their own work. 😚

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Abambo

Community Expert

If you show a logo, it needs to be logo centric and uploaded as illustrative editorial. Illustrative editorial cannot be used commercially.

For a picture to be used commercially, you either need a property release (as the IP owner, I would not give that to you) or you need to edit the logo out.

In addition to logos you also have different other restrictions that may get your picture refused.

If you are new to stock, you should consider these resources: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/tutorials.html
Please read the contributor user manual for more information on Adobe stock contributions: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/user-guide.html
See here for rejection reasons: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/reasons-for-content-rejection.html
and especially quality and technical issues: https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/quality-and-technical-issues.html

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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Bitsy BAuthor

Participant

Thank you. It sounds like it isn't so much WHAT I uploaded, but HOW I uploaded it. I will look in to uploading as illustrative editorial. I appreciate the extra resources!

Abambo

Community Expert

For Illustrative editorials, there are specific rules too, be sure to read them. In addition, you can only upload illustrative editorial assets, if you have a lifetime sales number of at least 100 licences.

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/illustrative-editorial-content.html

ABAMBO | Hard- and Software Engineer | Photographer

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