Shutterstock announces new earnings structure and contributors are anything but happy

Stock photography company Shutterstock is taking heat after announcing in a post on its contributor forum that it's putting a new earnings structure in place starting June 1, 2020. Under the new structure, photographers and videographers will get compensated via a percentage of the sales price based on the 'level' their photo and/or video are rated, with the level being determined by the number of times their content is licensed. Previously, there were lifetime earnings tiers, which took into ac...