Author Topic: 5000+ Stolen Stock Images in Flickr Account (Read 7990 times)

fotorob · « **on:** August 25, 2014, 05:56 »

Hi,

I just stumbled across this guy who has more than 5.000 (!) stock images in his Flickr portfolio:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/hlarreac/

Just after some seconds I found at least 3 of mine. The images can be downloaded with a pixelsize up to 1600 Pixel.

I think it might be a good idea to send out some DMCA notices to Flickr to get that account closed?
DMCA formular: https://info.yahoo.com/copyright/us/details.html

Who wants to join? I just sent mine in.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #1 on:** August 25, 2014, 06:40 »

Boy, that's a lot of smiling people.

OM · « **Reply #2 on:** August 25, 2014, 06:47 »

I'm not popular enough to have mine stolen but everything there is stolen even old Yuri on SS!

I noticed a shot of Walmart on P1 from SS. That's an editorial.

Dook · « **Reply #3 on:** August 25, 2014, 07:22 »

Lodimup · « **Reply #4 on:** August 25, 2014, 07:42 »

How come there's no watermarks?

Eyedesign · « **Reply #5 on:** August 25, 2014, 07:51 »

These may not be stolen, but a business using this Flickr account to store images. I've seen this before with other businesses. Check the guy's website.

ShadySue · « **Reply #6 on:** August 25, 2014, 08:17 »

I tried a random three and they couldn't be right-click saved, although you could screendump and crop, as always.
All glossy, old-school microstock, so I'm not there.

Surely even if he's 'using Flickr to store his files' - and he does have the shutterstock number showing on each file page - if that's allowed without watermark, shouldn't he be restricting who can view them?

I've used DMCA with Flickr before, it's easy enough - at the time I did it, they immediately suspended the image from view while they checked with the Flickr member, which is fair enough to protect members from malicious claims, then the image was removed completely.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #7 on:** August 25, 2014, 08:22 »

I'm guessing he's just some guy who doesn't know better:

"Hernani Larrea, Director of the School of Management and Agribusiness

BS in Biology and a Master in Teaching for Higher Education. With experience and expertise in food microbiology and postgraduate studies in health management issues. Advisor and consultant on food safety and security in local companies. Research on issues of health control with scientific publications in national and international magazines. "

fotorob · « **Reply #8 on:** August 25, 2014, 08:28 »

When I am logged in into my Flickr account, I get the option to download the images and it works (see the download symbol on the lower right corner of the image section).

Also one of my images is offered with over 2000 pixel and copyright is attributed to that guy though I always fill out my metadata correctly.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #9 on:** August 25, 2014, 08:31 »

Here, who knows his language and can contact him and nicely ask to change them to private or whatever:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/hlarrea
https://plus.google.com/+HernaniLarrea/posts
https://twitter.com/hlarrea

ShadySue · « **Reply #10 on:** August 25, 2014, 08:39 »

Stange, though - it doesn't look like a very relevant selection of images for "food microbiology and postgraduate studies in health management issues", though I suppose the smiley, happy people look generically healthy enough.

Sean Locke Photography · « **Reply #11 on:** August 25, 2014, 08:48 »

They're certainly a testament to good dental hygiene.

etudiante_rapide · « **Reply #12 on:** August 25, 2014, 11:12 »

rob,
on that page, down at the bottom there is a link to
REPORT ABUSE
and a menu that includes
SOMEONE IS USING PHOTOS THAT I TOOK IN THEIR FLICKR ACCOUNT

i suppose this is where u should report, no?

fotorob · « **Reply #13 on:** August 25, 2014, 13:07 »

Quote from: etudiante_rapide on August 25, 2014, 11:12

rob,
on that page, down at the bottom there is a link to
REPORT ABUSE
and a menu that includes
SOMEONE IS USING PHOTOS THAT I TOOK IN THEIR FLICKR ACCOUNT

i suppose this is where u should report, no?

Yes, I already sent DMCA takedown notices for about 5-6 of my images and just got a mail from Yahoo that the images have been removed already. I am not sure though if I caught all since I only searched the first 15 of about 60 pages...

fotorob · « **Reply #14 on:** August 25, 2014, 13:09 »

Might be a fun game to see how many can be removed that way...

Elenathewise · « **Reply #15 on:** August 25, 2014, 16:18 »

This one (and several other images) has Yuri's models: https://www.flickr.com/photos/hlarreac/14419814210/
It also says Depositphotos_3326860 in the title. The file is not on Depositphotos anymore but looks like it's been downloaded from there (legally - no watermarks), at least initially. Regardless, shouldn't be made available for download.

Fairplay · « **Reply #16 on:** August 25, 2014, 16:32 »

I found a lot of my images and sent a report. I am glad now they removed the account!

Mantis · « **Reply #17 on:** August 25, 2014, 17:17 »

Nice job fotorob

etudiante_rapide · « **Reply #18 on:** August 25, 2014, 17:50 »

something confuses me about this. why would he pay for the images and then put it here on flickr?
say he has a sub a/c which allows him to withdraw all he wants ( within limits),
he still paid for the images . why would he do that?

unless he had used them for his own business ads, etc and then having them all included here on flickr for anyone to download. it doesn't make sense why anyone would want to take business away from us.

as sjlocke points out he is not just some kid playing around in hacking or stealing someone's photos.
for this reason,
sure would like to find out from him the purpose of his flickr account.

klsbear · « **Reply #19 on:** August 25, 2014, 19:55 »

Perhaps he has downloaded packs from torrent sites and put them on Flickr for his students and colleagues to use to illustrate presentations. Lots of the isolated fruits and veggies that were on the site would have been useful for that purpose.

cathyslife · « **Reply #20 on:** August 25, 2014, 19:58 »

Yes, i thought there was quite a wide variety of material there, too. Nice work, fotorob!

jefftakespics2 · « **Reply #21 on:** August 25, 2014, 20:12 »

I went to have a look. His Flickr site has been taken down. Good work!

wheeeeee · « **Reply #22 on:** August 25, 2014, 23:12 »

Send a DMCA notice via Yahoo. I found an entire series of mine on Flickr before. Yahoo resolved the problem within 24 hours, unlike Google who take three months to sort out infringements on their blogs. (This was the first nice thing I have ever said about Yahoo.)

fotorob · « **Reply #23 on:** August 26, 2014, 01:42 »

Great job everyone, it seems that Yahoo did get enough DMCA takedown notices to close the account completely. Thanks for your help.

lima · « **Reply #24 on:** August 26, 2014, 09:38 »

another one... https://www.flickr.com/photos/tjmartins/

ShadySue · « **Reply #25 on:** August 26, 2014, 10:00 »

Quote from: ana on August 26, 2014, 09:38

another one... https://www.flickr.com/photos/tjmartins/

Images seem to be suspended already.

etudiante_rapide · « **Reply #26 on:** August 26, 2014, 10:45 »

Quote from: ShadySue on August 26, 2014, 10:00

Quote from: ana on August 26, 2014, 09:38
another one... https://www.flickr.com/photos/tjmartins/
Images seem to be suspended already.

not all of it, Sue !
the others look familiar. at least i recognized the one of the girl in retro dress with the drink in her hand. i think that came from some fashion mag. in fact the rest that is still there looks like they could have been taken from the same "mode site"... given the similar retro faded polaroid type "style"

ShadySue · « **Reply #27 on:** August 26, 2014, 10:52 »

I didn't say 'all of them'.

BTW, can someone tell me how to GIS from Flickr images which are right-click protected. Someone put me onto a program, but it only worked once then failed.

If you search Flickr for Shutterstock, Dreamstime, Fotolia (hehe), etc you get lots of hits, but how many of them are stolen from SS and how many the tog is indicating are available from a site (probably against Flickr's T&C) it's hard to know.

etudiante_rapide · « **Reply #28 on:** August 26, 2014, 11:07 »

as i said before, i still wonder why someone would put en-masse works of someone else's.
is this due to flickr announcement that they are now getting into ms , and these ppl are opening accounts with large portfolios hoping to cash in with their fraud?

like another commentor said, they must have gotten the images from a dvd off torrent or whatever.
or this is a "community" of thieves using flickr to broaden their "market".

the mind boggles. i am not even convinced that the first one was actually himself, since he has more to lose as an administrator with his cv on linkedn , if he was to be branded an IP thief.

Batman · « **Reply #29 on:** August 27, 2014, 11:22 »

Quote from: etudiante_rapide on August 26, 2014, 11:07

as i said before, i still wonder why someone would put en-masse works of someone else's.
is this due to flickr announcement that they are now getting into ms , and these ppl are opening accounts with large portfolios hoping to cash in with their fraud?

like another commentor said, they must have gotten the images from a dvd off torrent or whatever.
or this is a "community" of thieves using flickr to broaden their "market".

the mind boggles. i am not even convinced that the first one was actually himself, since he has more to lose as an administrator with his cv on linkedn , if he was to be branded an IP thief.

Good point the likedn could be a fake id link to. flickr is full of them.

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Author Topic: 5000+ Stolen Stock Images in Flickr Account (Read 7990 times)

fotorob

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OM

Dook

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Eyedesign

ShadySue

Sean Locke Photography

fotorob

Sean Locke Photography

ShadySue

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etudiante_rapide

fotorob

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Elenathewise

Fairplay

Mantis

etudiante_rapide

klsbear

cathyslife

jefftakespics2

wheeeeee

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ShadySue

etudiante_rapide

ShadySue

etudiante_rapide

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