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DT wants to go after infringement
Sean Locke Photography:
… except they’re (mostly) non-exclusive, so … ?
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20220405005677/en/
pancaketom:
Maybe they are only going after exclusive content (which they do have) or they employ some sort of digital watermark - which wouldn't be hard to do at least for un-compressed images but they would have had to start doing this from the beginning which I doubt they did do or they would have been going after infringers earlier. In any case going after non-exclusive images that have been out in the wild for ages would be pretty hard. Although they do have a record of all the refunded image sales, so maybe they can go after them if they are still in use. If I had an illegal use I'd just say I bought it from Lucky Oliver or something like that.
In my very limited searching for my own images it seems like sometimes there was a legitimate use - often with a weird crop, and then a heap of copies of that very same crop - often in blogs that were not in English. I don't see them collecting much from those places even at under a dollar.
Jo Ann Snover:
I hadn't seen that. There's a little more on the topic in this article and if the whole thing can be automated (including a person replying that they licensed the image from XYZ agency) then possibly this might work reasonably well? If the contributor is notified (again automatic process would be ideal) that the alleged infringer claims they licensed the image from ABC agency, it would also allow for liars to be outed too.
If DT got an answer about one of my images there that the alleged infringer licensed the image from Deposit Photos, I could easily identify that as false as I've never submitted there. Not all images are at all agencies for various reasons, and sometimes there might be zero downloads from the agency an infringer claimed they licensed it from.
Worth a try anyway, IMO
https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2022/04/05/dreamstime-launches-licenseguard-to-track-copyright-infringements/
BTW, love the name of this publication :)
Sean Locke Photography:
--- Quote from: Jo Ann Snover on April 13, 2022, 13:22 ---BTW, love the name of this publication :)
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I bet they copied that from somewhere...
Jo Ann Snover:
--- Quote from: Sean Locke Photography on April 13, 2022, 14:10 ---I bet they copied that from somewhere...
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;D
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