What is the reason of image rejection?

Forum|Forum|7 months ago
July 10, 2025
4 replies
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Could someone explain to me which elements of the image or description might have caused the rejection?

Title: Cotswold. Administrative area of United Kingdom highlighted and outlined on a darkened colored elevation map
Keywords: Cotswold,United Kingdom,Europe,physical,colored,shader,elevation,overlay,outline,Cirencester,Charlton Kings,Cheltenham,Bishop's Cleeve,Churchdown,Tewkesbury,Evesham,Stroud,Gloucester,Pershore,Royal Wootton Bassett,Stonehouse,Highworth,Swindon,Carterton,Dursley,Malvern,Witney,Ledbury,Yate,administrative,boundaries,region,country,location,territory,earth,planet,atlas,border,divisions,geography,geographic,map,cartography,visualization,nature,educational,science,zoom

Here's the reviewer's comment:

Thank you for the opportunity to review your image.
The review determined that the work contains copyrighted elements
and therefore cannot be accepted for the collection.
Copyrighted elements may appear in the image or in its description, title, or keywords.
For more information, please see our intellectual property guidelines.

Contributors

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

It's an IP violation, just the same.

When you illustrate real people, you must obtain their permission and have them sign a model release.

Similarly, when you illustrate property created/owned by other entities, you need their permission and a signed property release.

Model/Property Releases:
https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/model-release.html
https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/property-release.html

Stock IP Guidelines

https://helpx.adobe.com/stock/contributor/help/ip-guidelines.html

You may not upload content that is lifted from third party sites (such as Unsplash or Pixabay). You may also not submit content that is too similar to the expression of another individual or entity’s work.

Don’t submit what you believe to be public-domain content

Don’t submit content created by other artists, including content available as a free download at any location

Don’t submit content that’s partially based on the work of other artists

Hope that helps clarify things.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

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dan_zelAuthor

Participant

You know nothing about my work, yet you accuse me of "It's an IP violation" and "Don't submit content that's partially based on the work of other artists."

I've been creating my maps using many advanced cartographis, graphic and programming tools (Perl, SQLite) for years. My work is more cartographic than illustrative. I create maps not from someone else's illustrations but from scratch, from completely basic materials: elevation rasters, shaders, vector layers of rivers and lakes, and administrative locations (cities, regions). I use libraries like GDAL and ImageMagick. This is hard work, requiring considerable software skills and a lot of time.
I thought I'd find some advice on this forum, but all I find are baseless accusations that slander my reputation as an artist. You wouldn't want to be in my situation, so please, first verify the information you have before accusing someone of copyright abuse.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I apologize for any offense. That was not my intention.

Adobe is a commercial stock assets service, not a map site. I can honestly say that I've never encountered a mapmaker here. And I doubt that Adobe has either. That's not their typical contributor.

I urge you to re-submit your work with a signed property release form by YOU as the ARTIST. Until you do that, Adobe can't accept original artwork (maps or otherwise) for commercial sale.

Hope that makes sense.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

Jill_C

Community Expert

It seems very unlikely that you actually captured this image. You cannot submit public domain images as your own. You must own full rights and copyright to anything you submit.

Jill C., Forum Volunteer

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dan_zelAuthor

Participant

This is not "public domain" image or "Copyrighted map". It is my work (illustration). I know which maps I can use or not. I thought maybe the fonts used at the bottom in the map description at the bottom... (?)