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When my name comes up with a handful of my over 2000 images on google image search it's because they have been used and credited to me on a purchasers website.

I don't mind at all that my images turn up, but is your name shown as the copyright holder for your iStock images? Some contributors have that information hidden, and it may be that is where the search picks it up. There's a profile setting somewhere that lets you hide your name if you want.

I never tried that, but if this is an issue for you, why are you in IS?

As for why images show despite your name isn't there, it probably is, maybe where you can not see (metadata, EXIF data)

Regards,
Adelaide

There is an option to hide your real name and it was created for exactly the reason Perry is upset about. Go to your control panel on iStock. Click Contributor and you'll see a drop down labeled "display copyright owner". Choose member name rather than real name.

You'll have to wait until google's bots cycle through iStock again before your images disappear from the google search engine, but they will eventually.

No, they are not complaining. I think many of them would not complain, just move somewhere else. I don't know if this has happened or not, it's impossible to know.
Ans yes, different images on every price level and photography type. That's one of the problems. When I google hundreds of my mediocre microstock pictures pop up, I would really not want them to represent my work.

Every "real" macrostock agency I'm familiar with seem to respect their contributor's privacy, so that aliases can really be used. Most microstock agencies does this too, except iStock, crestock and featurepics (in their watermarks). The latter two could be fixed by using just my first name initial as my first name.

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