Seed Reviews

This website company is a SCAM

They post fictitious jobs on Linkedin offering photographers 1 500 a day photographing for their clients all over the world all travel and expenses paid Then they send you an email saying you have been shortlisted and all you need to do is mint 5 photos after which you will have a video meeting with them Total BS In the same email they are even promoting a photography competition which you need to pay to enter If you applied for a photographer job at Amazon or ebay say would you expect them to say We love your work but in order to get through to the next stage you just need to set up a seller account take some photos of products and put them up for sale Totally underhanded and unscrupulous behaviour But with such a good offer and considering the job had been advertised on a reputable website I felt I had to at least try especially as they claim it costs you nothing But they never reply to any emails they just keep sending me variations of the same email saying I have been shortlisted and to mint some photos Just a sneaky way of getting free publicity and to get photographers signed up and pay to enter their competition They don t reply to support emails either What they claim is their USP is a very bad idea which is to include your raw files as part of the NFTs They falsely claim that your work is protected because you have minted it and it acts like some sort of super-duper copyright with magical powers but that is not correct The NFT itself is protected but if you include the raw file or even a high res jpeg file for that matter what is to stop the buyer making prints and selling them in China say Or messing around with the raw file and then selling retouched variations of it So your work is not protected at all just the NFT itself and there is a huge difference It is therefore a false claim and I wouldn t advise anyone to include a raw file It is important for seed photo to understand how copyright actually works Copyright is IMMEDIATELY assigned to the photographer the second he or she takes the photograph To say or imply that turning a photograph into an NFT and minting it either creates or enhances the copyright of the photograph is therefore false and misleading In order to enforce your copyright you just need to prove that you are the one that took it and this could be through showing other photos from the same series raw files exif data negatives communication with the model or client etc The website itself also appears to be a scam It s written in very poor English and the instructions are similar in style to the ones you get when you buy a cheap Chinese product The explanatory videos don t have any spoken or written narration and explain nothing so when you mint something some people may be conned into giving away a big chunk of their royalties if they ever sell anything for supposed promotion The website is riddled with technical issues and support is non-existent The wallet keeps disconnecting and sometimes impossible to connect to for days on end You have to pay to mint each photo but you get a seed token which supposedly you can then recredit to your wallet so they claim it costs you nothing to mint However when you try to credit the tokens you get a big warning from Metawallet saying this could be used for Phishing I went ahead anyway but the credits do not transfer to the wallet despite multiple attempts over several days This could be yet another bug and perhaps they will fix it with time but considering the job posting appears to be fictitious and a total scam it doesn t inspire much confidence or trust in anything about this website It is a shame because the concept itself aside from including raw files is good and had they been honest with photographers instead of trying to lure them with false job postings and copyright protection claims they would have received helpful feedback to improve their website and obtained recommendations to others However due to the underhanded way in which they have conducted themselves I simply do not trust them one iota