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Alfred:
Hi,
I have a question:

Is copyright infringement a use of my image as a basis for a new image?

My image (vector) from 2012:
 
newbielink:https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/london-skyline-grunge-style-102936080 [nonactive]

Images from another author, now in 2017:

newbielink:https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/london-art-watercolor-print-skyline-united-707634016 [nonactive]
newbielink:https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/london-art-watercolor-print-skyline-united-707634040 [nonactive]
newbielink:https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/london-art-watercolor-print-skyline-united-707633926 [nonactive]

...and more

Perfect similarity is not at all accidental, but only an outline is used.
Is this a copyright infringement?


Thanks

Minsc:
Yes. It is.

I wonder why someone with 4600 images would want to risk getting their entire portfolio taken down.

Jo Ann Snover:
Yes it is. And this thief has done the same thing with another artist's vector of Las Vegas as he/she did with your skyline:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/watercolor-art-print-skyline-las-vegas-707634022
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/las-vegas-nevada-skyline-detailed-vector-97812845

Shutterstock should be ashamed of themselves for letting this sort of thing through (I'm sure they don't care) but please do report it and tell them it needs to be removed.

Does anyone know Yuri Konovalov (the Las Vegas skyline contributor)? His portfolio's everywhere, but I couldn't find any contact info.

microtalk:
Yes,

100% copyright infringement , no talk possible on that
Report this user to Shutterstock ;)

Chichikov:

--- Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on September 13, 2017, 16:24 ---Yes it is. And this thief has done the same thing with another artist's vector of Las Vegas as he/she did with your skyline:

https://www.shutterstock.com/image-illustration/watercolor-art-print-skyline-las-vegas-707634022
https://www.shutterstock.com/image-vector/las-vegas-nevada-skyline-detailed-vector-97812845

Shutterstock should be ashamed of themselves for letting this sort of thing through (I'm sure they don't care) but please do report it and tell them it needs to be removed.

Does anyone know Yuri Konovalov (the Las Vegas skyline contributor)? His portfolio's everywhere, but I couldn't find any contact info.

--- End quote ---

I have found and written him.

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