I used to report them but not as much lately. If it's someone taking my work and re-uploading it, then for sure I'll report that.

I had 2 bad experiences with reporting infringements that kind of put me off of it. One was I reported someone who was truly remorseful and because of the harsh policies of the agencies, the guy was essentially black-balled from microstock for life. I understand the need for policies to be strict in this matter. But there are always cases where an honest mistake or just plain ignorance about copyright leads someone to do something unintentionally nefarious. That incident left me feeling kind of crappy about reporting people and, in this one case, taking away any chance this guy had at pursuing microstock further.

The other bad experience was a reporting of an obvious infringement that was removed from a site, and then later overturned and the infringing images re-instated. They're still up for sale today. That one just left me feeling like "Why bother."

For the most part, infringements are sub-par copies and I don't view them as taking anything away from me. The better images often get better search placement, and even if my image is side-by-side with a copy, buyers will probably go for the better image every time.

I think the agencies have more to lose by not taking infringements more seriously. The collection doesn't benefit from lesser-quality copies.

It is very difficult to give general advice. On the one hand obvious copies or reuploads of stolen edited work defiantly need to be reported. On the other hand there are numerous threads on the shutterstock forum with people outraged over their work being "infringed" when the so called copies are very generic similar concepts.

It is very difficult to give general advice. On the one hand obvious copies or reuploads of stolen edited work defiantly need to be reported. On the other hand there are numerous threads on the shutterstock forum with people outraged over their work being "infringed" when the so called copies are very generic similar concepts.

Agree, now there are more than 130 millon images in SS database, so similar concept images are just statistically unavoidable...

I've seen my share of copycats and I don't think there is much you can do most of the time.

I've had infringers who took my work, adjusted some colors and uploaded it to the same site. That's easy to deal it. Also had infringers who made some minor changes to my work and uploaded to the same site. That's also fairly easy to deal with since you can prove they stole your work.

I've had people who copied my work and I have not reported any of them. They can steal your idea, your style and your composition and all you can do is shake your head. I don't think you can do much unless it's a direct trace.

That Easter set is obviously ripped off.  I would report it.  If they don't do anything about it, at least you tried.  But they might remove them, so you have nothing to lose.

Agree that is a blatant copy and needs to be reported.
Also in my experience their portfolio is probably littered with other examples of ripping people off so worth a look through by everyone else too.

It is a copy sure. With my experience, I see many people doing copy of my work and I use to get upset too. In starting, I also did many complains which was very well listened and appropriate action was taken.

But now the whole industry is full of plagiarism, as said above ss database is so huge that people are just doing copy, its now difficult to deal with such things. I believe if you contact Etsy, they will sure take action but you never know that the copycat still own the artowork offline, he will sell it somewhere else.

Do you mean to her shop, if so yes but if I post it she will see where it comes from.
You have statistics on etsy.

Oh sorry I thought this was on a stock site as well.
Have you sold an EL that would allow this use?