Hi all. We’re making a change to the photo review process, which will come into effect next week.
What’s changing?
From 19 July 2021, photo items will be rejected when a model or property release is required, but has not been provided. In light of this upcoming change, please take greater care in ensuring that releases are applied correctly to each batch of photos on upload, to avoid rejections for this reason.
If you upload photos via FTP, we recommend uploading in batches based on common release forms (e.g. by photoshoot), so that the release forms attached are relevant to most or all of the images in the batch. All uploaded images are automatically linked to all the uploaded model releases.
Why is this change being made?
Enforcing our model and property release requirements during item review allows us to provide greater confidence to our customers. Photos that are submitted without model releases will now be rejected, if model releases were required.
It was that way, and this is just an extra attachment and layer of enforcement to those pre-existing rules. The world is heavily focusing on privacy nowadays, so better safe than sorry! Cheers!
Most likely they will get rejected if they don’t meet the new criteria. As this criteria is in effect starting the 19th and your projects were submitted on the 20th, there’s a high probability of them being rejected. I’d suggest contacting author support via → Envato Authors Help and Support
