Stockxpert is merging with photos.com and requiring all photographers to opt into affiliate programs, extended licensing and subscription (no more opting out). I'm already opted in on there for these, so I was thinking this was no big deal. I'll just be getting some more income.... until I read the licensing terms and conditions on photos.com. Under the licensing terms and conditions, consumer merchandise (t-shirts, mugs, etc) do not require an extended license. So in other words, photos.com customers can get a subscription, purchase your small, medium or large image and resell it on consumer merchandise (which has no limit of products) and you get $0.30.

They are not leaving their artists an option to back out of this. It is "your going to do it or your going to delete your portfolio" (I'll be deleting my portfolio on the 30th if they don't change their minds by then.)
This will make tracking people who have used your image and not paid for an extended license (even on other sites if even one pic has sold on photos.com subscription) - impossible. They are taking the 'traditional' royalty free license, like on Corbis and Gettys where people pay big $ for pic with this traditional license agreement, and applying it to microstock subscription where you only get $0.30 (not to mention print on demand is not in photos.com's prohibited uses)

I wanted to make as many people as possible aware of what is going on. They don't mention in their e-mails about the difference in terms and conditions that photos.com gives it's customers that stockxperts artists must now abide by.

Photos.com has been in business since 2002 and only has 360,000 photo's on it - we can guess what the reason is for that.