Frequently Asked Questions

Photographer gets 60% of sale proceeds. Morii hub keeps 40%.

Only certain formats, color profiles and dimensions are accepted.

File Format

We accept images in JPEG and TIFF formats, but we recommend submitting your images as JPEGs because all images are automatically converted to jpeg upon approval into our collection. We do not currently accept PSD files or TIFFs with layers.

We accept EPS files, but require that they be saved in a format that is compatible with Adobe Illustrator 8 or 10.

Generally, we do not accept still frames from video files (even 8K) as they do not meet our technical quality standards.

Color profile

Moriihub images are offered in sRGB since most images on the Internet are displayed in that profile. If you submit images in a different color profile, the colors will likely be altered during conversion to sRGB, so we recommend converting your images to sRGB before uploading them to Moriihub.

File Size and Dimensions

All images must be at least 4 MP (megapixels) or larger and set at highest quality settings to produce an acceptable file dimension for submission to Moriihub.

The maximum file size you can upload using your web browser is: 50 MB for photos, 100 MB for EPS. If you upload via FTPS, you can upload JPEGs up to 50 MB, EPS files up to 100 MB, and TIFFs up to 4 GB in size.

Megapixels (MP) are different from megabytes (MB), as they refer to the dimensions and not the file size. To calculate your megapixels, multiply the X (width) by the Y (height) of your image or artwork.

For example:

2000 x 2400 pixels = 4.8 Megapixels. A file of this size is acceptable.
1200 x 3000 pixels = 3.6 Megapixels. This is smaller than our minimum size requirement, and this file will not be accepted by our system.

Regarding Pixels/Points/Picas/Inches:

Below is a translation of what 4 MP means in each measurement. Keep in mind, these values differ based on your computer’s DPI/PPI settings, but at 72 DPI/PPI (which is the current standard), those values would be:

4 million pixels = 4 million points = 27,562 picas = 771.62 square inches

EPS files must be a minimum of 4 MP, but no greater than 25MP. With EPS files, this requirement applies to the size of the bounding box around your artwork, not your artboard. In the example below the artboard is the white square behind the yellow stars. The bounding box is the automatically generated blue outlined box around the actual artwork.

So, even if your artboard is 4 MP or above, but the bounding box around your artwork is under 4 MP, you will receive an error.

In order to fix this issue, please increase the dimensions of your artwork to be 4 MP or higher.

In Adobe Illustrator:

1. Select your entire artwork.

2. In the Transform panel, expand your artwork to be at least 4 MP. In CC 2018 and newer, this panel is nested under the Properties tab.

3. Adjust your artboard accordingly, so that your artwork doesn’t exceed it.

Earnings are automatically calculated at the beginning of each month and payments are issued by the 15th.

The payment cycle for Moriihub contributors is monthly. Accrued earnings for the prior month are calculated at the beginning of every calendar month. Contributors whose accrued earnings meet the minimum payout amount and are eligible to receive payment are notified by email once their earnings are calculated. Once payments are issued, they are reflected in the account Payment history.

Here is a breakdown of each stage of the payment cycle:

1.  Payment Cycle

• At Midnight (12:00 AM US Eastern time) on the 1st of each calendar month, a new cycle
• Shortly after, we start calculating earnings that were accrued in the previous month and determine which accounts are eligible to receive a

2.  Payment Calculation

• Earnings are calculated only for those contributors who are eligible to receive a payment and whose earnings reached the minimum payout amount entered in account
• If all requirements are met, we reset your ‘Unpaid Earnings’ to zero and start the process of calculating and issuing payment. The process of calculating payments usually takes a few days.

• Once the payment calculation is complete, we will send you an email notifying you of the upcoming payment.

3.  Payment Processing

• Payments issued via Paypal, usually sent between the 7th and 15th of the month unless the 7th falls on a

4.  Payment Status

• Once the payment has been issued, it will be reflected in your Payment History. Please note that issued payments will be reflected here regardless of whether they were successfully received. Payments may fail or be delayed if your electronic payment account is not fully set up or Learn more about payment issues here.
• It takes approximately two weeks to complete the full process from calculating earnings to issuing the payment.

Moriihub currently offers the following payment methods:

• Paypal

All we need is the email associated with your Paypal account. You can also activate or connect your account to Moriihub.

No, you don’t need to contact us to request your payment. Contributor payouts are automatically calculated at the end of each pay period and delivered according to the payment method in your account settings. Our system will determine if you have met the requirements to receive payment.

Note: You may not share a Paypal account with another Moriihub contributor

You can set your minimum payout amount and select your payment method in the ‘Payout information’ section of your Account settings.

Please note that if you change your payment settings after a payment has already been calculated, your new settings will take effect the following month. This means that the payment in progress will be delivered according to the previous settings.

If you received an email notification of payment, and the payment is in your Payment History, but you did not receive the money.

If you were expecting payment but did not receive a payment email from us, it is possible that you don’t meet the eligibility criteria as listed above and/or you did not reach your minimum payout at the end of the previous month.

Important policies and account regulations for Moriihub contributors.

The following information supplements Moriihub’s Submitter Terms of Service. As a Moriihub contributor you are required to adhere to the policies outlined below.

Account Registration and Required Forms

• You must be 18 years of age to create a Moriihub
• You may not share an account with another individual, and/or share content with another Moriihub contributor without prior consent from Moriihub.
• The “Make payments to” name in your account must be your full legal name as it appears on your tax form; this is the name to which royalty payments will be made. For business accounts this field will contain the business

• In order to make your Moriihub account a business account, you must provide us with documentation as required by your country or state that indicates you are a principal owner of the Contact our support team for assistance.
• You may not open a second Moriihub account without permission from
• You may not share the same online payment processing service account (Paypal) with another Moriihub
• You must submit an applicable tax form in order to receive payments of royalties accrued in your account. Moriihub will not issue payments to accounts without an approved tax

Account Regulation

If we see repeated issues related to content submissions or account activity, you may receive a warning. Multiple warnings may result in account suspension or termination. Some reasons for receiving warnings include:

Account Activity

• Failure to follow the guidelines outlined in Account Registration, above
• Sharing a Paypal account with another Moriihub contributor

Content Submissions

Please note: Intentionally submitting content to which you do not own copyright or submitting content that infringes on the copyright of another artist will lead to immediate account termination.

• Submitting content that infringes on the rights of any person. Including directly copying or excessive inspiration from work to which you do not own the
• Repeatedly resubmitting rejected content without correcting the legal/compliance, technical quality, or metadata issues that have been
• Frequent errors with respect to required submission metadata as detailed.
• Consistent repeated Title and/or Keyword Spamming – repeating the same word within the title and/or using irrelevant or repetitive keywords
• Consistent repeated submissions of Objectionable Content and/or Metadata, including inappropriate titles or keywords (e.g., using sexual terms to describe a minor)
• Re-adding keywords that were previously removed by an administrator, adding restricted keywords after content approval, or modifying a caption that was previously edited by an administrator

Content Ownership and Intellectual Property

Copyright gives the author(s) of a creative work the exclusive right to display, reproduce, distribute, and financially benefit from the work they create. If you have questions about ownership of your content on Moriihub, we recommend you familiarize yourself with our Submitter Terms of Service. The Moriihub Submitter Terms of Service describes and

controls your legal relationship with Moriihub, the rights you are granting to Moriihub in any content submitted by you to Moriihub, and the uses Moriihub may make of the content.

Although being inspired by an idea is acceptable, it is never acceptable to copy someone

else’s expression of an idea. If you believe that an image on Moriihub is infringing upon your copyright, please send a DMCA Notice to the Legal Department.

• You must own or control the copyright to all content you submit to Moriihub. This means that you cannot submit work obtained from other sources (e.g., online image search results or free image download websites).
• Content submissions intended for commercial licensing must not contain any copyrighted material, including artwork, other photos, sculptures, architecture, exhibits or audio which are copyrighted, unless accompanied by a property release signed by the owner of all intellectual property rights in such material.
• Additionally, content submissions intended for commercial licensing may not contain trademarks, service marks or other indication of origin, including logos, owned by

Third parties

• If submitted content intended for commercial licensing contains copyrighted material, you must submit releases from the copyright You can learn more about

Our release requirements here and download a copy of an acceptable release on our Legal Forms page. Alternatively, where such content meets our editorial standards, you may submit the content for Editorial Use Only.

• You must submit Press Credentials for certain types of
• You may not submit content created in a manner that violates human rights, including but not limited to activities such as debt bondage, forced labor, child slavery, or other oppressive
• Content submissions that relate to members of certain race(s), ethnicities, disabilities, age, religion, gender, or sexual orientation must depict and/or describe such members in ways that accurately and respectfully represent their Please see

Our Guidelines for Submitting Diverse & Inclusive Content

• Do not embed your own watermark, website name, or copyright notice in your We protect your content with our own watermark, which is applied when your content is accepted to our site.
• We reserve the right to remove any previously accepted content submission from the Moriihub library, and reserve the right to reinstate any previously accepted content submission which was later removed by a Moriihub administrator, at any time for any

Due to their highly customized nature and scope of use, datasets are not a product that can be purchased directly on our website. Since datasets are manually curated, the individual assets that are included in this product are not reflected in your contributor account download history and Earnings Summary.