КЛУБ СТОКОВЫХ ФОТОГРАФОВ, ИЛЛЮСТРАТОРОВ, ВИДЕОГРАФОВ и ИИ-ШНИКОВ

Jonathan (Pond5 Team)
Dec 30, 8:50 PM
Hi there,

Thank you for this, but I'm afraid I need something relating to your SFX items with regard to the requested website information. We need something like a personal website or LinkedIn profile.

Here's the main issue we're dealing with: lately we've caught some fraudsters attempting to upload other artists' sound effects. As you might imagine, unlike music, it's pretty difficult to check for fraud with individual SFX, so we have to make sure that all of our artists are legit, trusted, and vetted. The legal risk of allowing an unverified artist's tracks just isn't worth it, both financially and reputation-wise.

Unfortunately we're finding that an ID by itself isn't the most effective way to curb fraud. Usually a simple Google search is all we need to do; an official website or LinkedIn page lets us know that we're dealing with real-life person who takes what they do seriously...and not that you aren't, but I hope you can understand our hesitancy about allowing your work on Pond5 when we just cant find a web presence for you.

If you don't have a website, or don't want to share one, that's totally okay. But it would mean that we cannot keep any of your SFX uploads, nor accept any new ones. You can still sell all other media formats, no problem.

Jonathan
Customer Care