MicrostockGroup

This is free small and medium sizes... incredible

http://axehd.com/ tripled its site value and popularity in the past 3 months. They can be phased out easily since they're hosted in the US, although they (he?) operate from an Arab-speaking country. Another "passive income seeker" that took some shortcuts. 

If Istock represent us in front of the buyers, it should be them to deal with their theft buyers IMO. It should be on the Istock forum. I know more than 3 Istock contributors are there...

I have one image there and I sent an email to yahoo copyright department, hope they'll close this guy down.

As a reminder (no pimping intended) : DMCA letter.

I read at several places that this clause is mandatory if you want to invoke the DMCA. Actually, you can find all on Google but I thought I would up some links and docs so nobody should waste time on reinventing the wheel.

Sheeeeeeeeeesh!  How many copyright violations do you have to have on Flickr  before they close your account!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/impactvisual/sets/72157619873604208/

He/She has two already!

fred

This is why I don't understand why there is no additional disclaimer popping up when uploading an image.

People often don't read the usage agreement, but if every time there is a disclaimer popping up when they upload an image it would be more "in your face" and the people would start learning about it. I'd assume...

No. There is no way any lawyer is taking such a case on contingency.

If you do find one, send them my way, I can make him/her rich because I have found many places that sell my stuff and my contingency lawyer tried but never achieved anything. The infringing party knows that nothing is going to happen unless this is going into litigation which is costly. I did register copyright btw.

Contingency lawyers want to settle out of court and don't offer a lot of help (that's my experience, yours may differ).

If you have some bad a$$ lawyer that you have to pay for, it may be possible to get some money back when the case goes to court but otherwise there is barely any monetary damage done (that a judge could award) if you find your stuff on Flickr.

There are a bunch of variables coming together when "suing" or trying to get a settlement, starting with where the image was sold.

As a non-exlcusive microstock image, you already start at the bottom of the barrel.

Secondly and most importantly how was the image (ab)used.

If Coca Cola took (stole) your image, using it for a world wide advertising campaign putting it onto any possible medium and surface to advertise their products then you have a good case.

If some humpty dumpty is uploading a medium sized image to Flickr you can consider yourself lucky if Yahoo acknowledges your DMCA claim and removes the image.

I've been getting upset about this in the past but this is the way things go these days.

All this "unfairness" happening makes one wonder if you're sitting on the "right" side of the fence...