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Title: Art.com selling my work, without notification
Post by: NeonRobot on November 08, 2017, 11:43
Anybody heard of them?
https://eu.art.com/ (https://eu.art.com/)

I wonder where they get my images...
Title: Re: Art.com selling my work, without notification
Post by: ShadySue on November 08, 2017, 11:47
Anybody heard of them?
[url]https://eu.art.com/[/url] ([url]https://eu.art.com/[/url])

I wonder where they get my images...


Alamy?
http://www.alamy.com/customer/help/alamy-photo-prints-art-com.aspx (http://www.alamy.com/customer/help/alamy-photo-prints-art-com.aspx)
It's opt-outable (tick 'don't sell for personal use, including single copy, non-retail wall art prints'), but we were opted in by default
Title: Re: Art.com selling my work, without notification
Post by: Jo Ann Snover on November 08, 2017, 12:14
https://www.shutterstock.com/special/partners (https://www.shutterstock.com/special/partners)

This says that BigStock's stuff is used at art.com (but some of the partnerships on this page are really out of date - the amazon stuff about wall art just shows a couple of "out of stock" items)
Title: Re: Art.com selling my work, without notification
Post by: NeonRobot on November 08, 2017, 18:22
Thanks for explanation!
I have portfolio on Bigstock. But I don't have EL sales there, so art.com could not sell my prints, in theory:)
 
Title: Re: Art.com selling my work, without notification
Post by: SpaceStockFootage on November 08, 2017, 19:05
They can unless you've opted out.
Title: Re: Art.com selling my work, without notification
Post by: Jo Ann Snover on November 08, 2017, 21:11
I think that BigStock was one of the agencies that followed the model that each actual print sale would generate one regular license (versus buying an EL to offer a number of prints for sale). This idea first surfaced about a decade ago (I think with Fotolia initially). Lots of contributors argued. We lost.
Title: Re: Art.com selling my work, without notification
Post by: NeonRobot on November 10, 2017, 10:02
I think that BigStock was one of the agencies that followed the model that each actual print sale would generate one regular license (versus buying an EL to offer a number of prints for sale). This idea first surfaced about a decade ago (I think with Fotolia initially). Lots of contributors argued. We lost.

I wrote to them about infringement, we'll see their opinion regarding the subject.
I don't have any hopes, wrote to them just for fun.