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Just to give everyone a heads up...

I just found out Veer is partnered with Media Bakery. I had requested the removal of my images from Veer because I do not want to participate in the partner program. They had already been sent to two partners, and my images were in the works to be sent to Media Bakery when I asked to remove my images.

If you all recall the fiasco with pixmac/media bakery and copyright information on about 220,000 images that had been stripped and changed to Colossus...well, I just checked all my images that were sent to Media Bakery via Veer, and all have had my copyright info stripped and © Media Bakery added in its place. That is not acceptable and it is copyright infringement.

I have notified Ryan at Veer of this major problem and anxiously await his reply. I have asked that all my images be removed immediately.

Thanks for the heads up, I notified the fellow who is in charge of our API program and we will be contacting Media Bakery to get this display error corrected.

I haven't found any of my images, but Yuri Arcur's images are credited as "© media bakery" as well.

I just sent a courtesy email to Media Bakery, asking for my images to be removed. Next will be a cease and desist.

I am still baffled as to why some partner programs don't replace the copyright info and some choose to do it, when it is such a blatant disrespect. It can't be impossible to do, otherwise they all would be doing it, no?

I haven't heard of this Snapfish thing yet. Where can I find my images there?

I only could find Getty images there and the thumbnails didn't even work properly so it's like shooting in the dark.

Do you have a link where I can do a search for my images on Snapfish?

It just isn't right.

After a while I got it. Thanks.

Not sure what you mean. Any time the © appears, Media Bakery is after it. Elsewhere, it says "More by this artist: cathyslife".

My copyright info in an image file info reads © 2007 Cathleen A Clapper. Or whatever year the image was taken. THAT'S what should appear as the copyright.

I'm not seeing any progress. Can you explain where you are seeing the contributors correct copyright name?

You are correct.

I spoke with Cammie at Media Bakery. She apologized and is taking my images down because I am opting out anyway, but apparently the IPTC/file info is stripped before it gets to Media Bakery (or any other partner) by Veer (or BigStock, or whatever agency they are partnered with). But that doesn't explain how the © Colossus got added in on the last fiasco. And after that last fiasco months ago, nothing has been done by any of the agencies or the participating partners to correct that problem.

Removing contributors' copyright name is copyright infringement and is illegal. I don't get why agencies and partners think they should be able to blame "the software" and just get away with it. 

Yeah, are we sure this is a Veer partner?  My images arent there (good, keep it that way!) which makes me think its not Veer (strange though Ryan seems to think it is, but didnt they say they would announce any new partners?); my guess is yet another FT partner.

I don't see any of my pics on Media Bakery.  I am on both Veer and Fotolia.  I do notice that the pictures they have all say (c) Media Bakery. 

They must have changed it.  A few hours ago it was there.  Now it just says "more by this artist" with the artist's name. 

Fast action.  Congrats to Ryan if he was responsible for getting that changed! 

Yeah but they all seam to do this! Nordic-Photos, is another one. Weird!  just noticed this.