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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: drd on December 05, 2018, 03:47
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Not sure how many of you have seen that the Getty Images, 500px, Corbis, Arcaid and many other collections https://www.vcg.com/creative/brands (https://www.vcg.com/creative/brands) are now up for sale on the vcg.com site.
On every image:
1. the contributors name is missing (replaced with an ID)
2. the EXIF information is wiped (from date to camera name to copyright information)
3. the copyright is attributed to '1995- 2018 vision China '
Since when is legal to do this? As far as I know the contributor is the author and the copyright holder, not the distributing company.
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They seem to be a legitimate secondary market. Check with your particular sites to be sure.
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They seem to be a legitimate secondary market. Check with your particular sites to be sure.
It might look legitimate, but claiming another’s work as your own is Copyright infringement. This is what they do.
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VCG own 500px and Corbis and have a deal with Getty to sell in the west, it must be reciprocal in that VCG sell Getty and all their partners in the east.
Not going to be a lot left over for the contributor when everybody has had their cut.
As for copyright I guess it's better defended by VCG than trying to do it on your own in China.