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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: digiology on September 04, 2008, 12:05

Title: and even more THEFT!
Post by: digiology on September 04, 2008, 12:05

I saw this at SS this morning. I can't believe people get away with this. Even some of sharpley's well known airplanes shots. Pretty brazen if you ask me.

http://submit.shutterstock.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=45865

Here is the FT portfolio in question:
http://eu.fotolia.com/p/178073

Title: Re: and even more THEFT!
Post by: vonkara on September 04, 2008, 12:35

His name his Dylan J Burrill. What should we do? Contact FT support in hope they do something.. Or maybe contact the guy massively?

Title: Re: and even more THEFT!
Post by: Dreamframer on September 04, 2008, 12:55

It would be really nice if there could be some "TinEye" like website, which could check only micro- and macrostock sites for cases like this. The database wouldn't be bigger than several millions and everyone of us could easily check images in our portfolios.... Without it, I think there are many many more, still unrevealed thieves among us...

Title: Re: and even more THEFT!
Post by: swhite on September 04, 2008, 18:57

http://www.dylanburrill.com/index.html (http://www.dylanburrill.com/index.html)

All his contact info is there.
This guy is selling these photos all over the place.




Shane.

Title: Re: and even more THEFT!
Post by: DanP68 on September 04, 2008, 22:08

Fotolia was contacted about this last week too, according to a post on another board I am a part of.  Of course, his portfolio is still up at Fotolia.  So that tells you how seriously they are dealing with out and out theft.  On the other hand Shutterstock is apparently on the case.  Some of his images have already been deleted, and hopefully they will close down his account.

Title: Re: and even more THEFT!
Post by: leaf on September 05, 2008, 00:56

perhaps if we all write an email to fotolia they will get the message?

Title: Re: and even more THEFT!
Post by: thesentinel on September 05, 2008, 14:54

Quote from: leaf on September 05, 2008, 00:56

perhaps if we all write an email to fotolia they will get the message?

Looks like they took action. I emailed the thief and got this reply. Looks like more work has to be done by some image owners.

".......First of all, please let me apologize for what has happened, I feel stupid and angry with myself for letting myself be talked in to uploading images a friend of mine had, they originate from: http://www.fordesigner.com and appear to be free downloads..........." snip