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Microstock Photography Forum - General => General Stock Discussion => Topic started by: everest on September 21, 2013, 15:05
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Hello:
I just noticed that there is in Shutterstock a portfolio with bestseller images from Istock exclusives. Would be great if any of you that is also a contributor of Shutterstock ( I am exclusive to Istock) would contact them about this issue. I don't know if this portfolio is also in other agencies.
The portfolio I am talking about is:
http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1686370p1.html (http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1686370p1.html)
Thank you
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Those are stolen images from multiple other contributors. The first images were uploaded in mid-June from their ID numbers.
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Indeed he/she is having a Beautiful Sunday with all the revenue generated with those images :-(
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SS have been contacted. Just hope that whoever it was never made payout.
I'm surprised in a way that reviewers don't pick up on so many good and diverse images, in so many obviously different styles, being submitted by a brand new contributor. One glance at that port and it was clearly not the work of an individual.
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Hope he/she doesn't come back with another identity in a few weeks/months. It must be hard to policy this behaviour with the thousands of active contributors nowadays. Thank you for contacting Shutterstock.
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Thanks for posting this. I just notified the guy who owns many of those.
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@oxman, was it the owner of the beagle and photographer working (silhouette) that you sent site mail to? If not I will send site mail - I think in addition to notifying Shutterstock it helps to have the rights owner get in touch with them too.
It's really lazy that the agencies don't do a quick google image search with brand new contributors with great images to make sure that the ID they were provided with matches the ownership on other sites.
This "genius" flipped a couple of the photos (the beagle and photographer working) in what was submitted to SS, and a search on those leads to one use where a photography course uses these images!
http://www.scoopon.com.au/deals/10023/image# (http://www.scoopon.com.au/deals/10023/image#)
I suppose they thought - rightly as it turns out - that flipping the image will stop Google image search from finding it...
As far as SS noticing, individual reviewers see just one image at a time, but they have to have the 10 images that the person submitted to get approved. How often do they get such great work in a batch of 10 initial images. Should have raised some red flags, one would think
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jo ann -- not that one
the iso pigs and trees. and champaign :)
he is a close friend of mine and got me into microstock a few years ago
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I sent site mail so the photographer can also weigh in - it's always best when the copyright holders fuss directly.
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One glance at that port and it was clearly not the work of an individual.
If they were not stolen images, it could be a group of photographers working together, under the same name.
Probably not much sense but still possible
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Images and portfolio gone. Another one bites the dust ...
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They were all stolen. SS shut it down about an hour ago
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Hello, i am a buyer that decided to buy some icons. After i had found what i was searching for i also searched Google and found similar icons but some are really similar. Here is another one with copied content. Just look at all the icons here http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?gallery_username=zagan&gallery_landing=1&page=1&safesearch=1&sort_method=newest (http://www.shutterstock.com/portfolio/search.mhtml?gallery_username=zagan&gallery_landing=1&page=1&safesearch=1&sort_method=newest) especially the "baby icons" and the others. They are similar to the bestsellers here http://fr.fotolia.com/search?p=202080040 (http://fr.fotolia.com/search?p=202080040) . As a result i haven't bought any of the icon sets.
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They were all stolen. SS shut it down about an hour ago
It doesn't take much to shut down an account at SS. Even if only one image in a portfolio is stolen/copied, the account gets shut down. Most likely permanently. They don't reinstate very many accounts anymore. I've heard from folks at SS HQ that they are much more strict about this stuff ever since the company went public.
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http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-128081837/stock-vector-basic-baby-icons.html?src=p-151555427-3 (http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-128081837/stock-vector-basic-baby-icons.html?src=p-151555427-3) this one...and ALL the others.
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All the black icons sets here http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1160984p1.html (http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1160984p1.html) are gathered from multiple users and combined. It can be easily verified with Google. I will search on other stock websites, i don't like to buy from thieves. Either one or another.
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Another account with stolen images: http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1642544p1.html (http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1642544p1.html)
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never say never thief, bye bye! ;D
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Another account with stolen images: [url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1642544p1.html[/url] ([url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1642544p1.html[/url])
I would bet the same person is behind this and that more stolen images might show up under different portfolios. This is really ugly. Shutterstock should be really more active to avoid this embarrasing situations.
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Another account with stolen images: [url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1642544p1.html[/url] ([url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1642544p1.html[/url])
I would bet the same person is behind this and that more stolen images might show up under different portfolios. This is really ugly. Shutterstock should be really more active to avoid this embarrasing situations.
No agency cares about thats stuff
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I noticed a post on Alamy's forum a few days ago that someone had found their Alamy images being flipped and sold elsewhere. They thought that the thief was flipping them to avoid easy detection via GIS.
However, it seems flipped images are being found, as above.
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Another account with stolen images: [url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1642544p1.html[/url] ([url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1642544p1.html[/url])
Poor DNY59. And IS didn't even know it was going on: http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=356432&page=1 (http://www.istockphoto.com/forum_messages.php?threadid=356432&page=1)
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The account that stole the images was created in 2013, it could only be a few days old. Do you expect Stocksy or any other agency to find users on Shutterstock selling stolen work any faster (faster than some undetermined amount of time that those files were up)?
The earliest image was uploaded around 20th May 2013 and the latest around 20th July.
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I meant this thread, not the fact that they were over on SS. Though I guess that can be forgiven :) .
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Images are deleted now - try to click through.
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Another account with stolen images: [url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1642544p1.html[/url] ([url]http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-1642544p1.html[/url])
How do find these accounts? What kind of search method? Thanks...
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Just my curiosity. I saw this thread and did a few searches on Shutterstock. You can recognize your own images even cropped, flipped and color-adjusted.
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thanks and VERY much appreciated. I've notified the guy whose images are on those pages and he is very grateful to you. Keep it up... it is very helpful :)
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You are welcome :)