The same - i didn't get how they will manage this, and they want to "import" images. For now i don't know do they want full size collection or not. If full size then no no. Another possible whole. Better their rep comes here for explanations.

Pretty much useless for RF.

I've played around with it a bit. It works very well and finds a lot of stuff that I didn't know about before. It indeed does not do much for RF, of course, but that's just in the nature of such things.

Greatest issue right now is that they seem to only go after abuses that are in one of very few countries, that are crystal clear abuses that will net lots of money, and that are by a Fortune 500 company. In other words, they will only act upon things that I could just as well act upon myself and get 100%.

Still useful for finding image uses though.

@Pixsy: skyfish is asking whether you require the upload of full-sized images or whether you can work with thumbnails. He/she does not want to risk giving you full sized images.

@skyfish: I can answer that: they do work with thumbnails. In fact, they limit the upload size a lot.

@ MarcvsTvllivs We are indeed limited geographically and due to the particularities of IP law in a number of countries can currently pursue infringement cases in the US, UK, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Denmark. We are constantly expanding, though.

As for the Fortune 500 company point, we do pursue smaller cases. The decisive factor here is the intention of the use -- as a rule, we go after the commercial uses of the photos.

Here's the review from one of our photographers that might be helpful: http://jakehicksphotography.com/latest/2016/4/19/finding-the-people-whove-stolen-your-photographs [nofollow]

@skyfish The invite code for PhotoDeck users is limited to the first 50 photographers. Feel free to use it: PHOTODECKANDPIXSY. Here's the direct sign-up link https://my.pixsy.com/register?code=PHOTODECKANDPIXSY [nofollow]

To import your PhotoDeck photos, you need to log in to Pixsy (you can use the code above) and go to your Import options - https://my.pixsy.com/sources [nofollow]. 

Important note: we don't download any of the photos. We just get access to your portfolio and then search the Internet for the matches.

Hope that answers your question.

Best,
Pixsy Team.

Interesting service. Does a nice job of bulk finding files instead of having to do the Google image search one at a time. Has some nice options for submitting a case, DCMA takedown, and flagging for later use. I'm showing 13,000 matches. I could spend hours wandering through this.

One thing I already knew was a problem is FineArtAmerica. I have probably hundreds of images with their watermark being used on personal Twitter accounts, Facebook, blogs, couple's wedding websites, and on and on. And then there's all of the commercial sites where images are cropped right where the FAA watermark should be. And that's part of the problem with RF and micro. Almost all of those images have been in micro so there's almost no way of telling what's licensed or stolen. All of my newer stuff is only available through RM on my site so if it shows up somewhere that I'm not showing as a customer there's no doubt it's stolen.

I've been wanting to go after infringers so Pixsy may be a good place to start.

ETA: Looks like freeimages . com has copied the entire Istock image library.

Interesting service. Does a nice job of bulk finding files instead of having to do the Google image search one at a time. Has some nice options for submitting a case, DCMA takedown, and flagging for later use. I'm showing 13,000 matches. I could spend hours wandering through this.

One thing I already knew was a problem is FineArtAmerica. I have probably hundreds of images with their watermark being used on personal Twitter accounts, Facebook, blogs, couple's wedding websites, and on and on. And then there's all of the commercial sites where images are cropped right where the FAA watermark should be. And that's part of the problem with RF and micro. Almost all of those images have been in micro so there's almost no way of telling what's licensed or stolen. All of my newer stuff is only available through RM on my site so if it shows up somewhere that I'm not showing as a customer there's no doubt it's stolen.

I've been wanting to go after infringers so Pixsy may be a good place to start.

ETA: Looks like freeimages . com has copied the entire Istock image library.

the first thing to do is to replace the word "royalty-free".
if i were given a penny each time i had someone , even business people, that royalty-free  means
use without paying, i would be a millionaire today.
even photo magazines had once where i read the editor discussing the free usage of videos, music, movies, etc... and  the new "royalty-free" stock photos, to mean use by anyone without compensation.

then there the flickr community and model mayhem,etc.. who finds anything on flickr or model mayhem,etc.. even a little line of credit or copyright...never mind water-mark , as quote "tacky".

otoh, we have to indeed thanks those sites because they distract the "anything can be used ... ( i do not own the copyright, but i am publishing it on a non-profit basic" vultures away from microstock.

still, you are fighting against a very large community who believes that like grafitti, anything you put on the (street) / web / .. is free for the taking.

of course, there is dreamstime which promotes free images donation can (cough cough) "improve your chance of increasing downloads".  LOL.. we know where that goes,.. but that's for another day to mull.

One thing I already knew was a problem is FineArtAmerica. I have probably hundreds of images with their watermark being used on personal Twitter accounts, Facebook, blogs, couple's wedding websites, and on and on. And then there's all of the commercial sites where images are cropped right where the FAA watermark should be.

I've seen this in the Amazon Kindle ebook store. To be fair, many of the infringing "books" aren't books at all, but scams designed to get money out of the very flawed Kindle Unlimited book subscription service.



See the FAA watermark? It's useless. Poor Lee Avison's images are being stolen right and left.

@ rimglow Feel free to use this code: SHUTTER55. Looking forward to having you on board!

@ rimglow Feel free to use this code: SHUTTER55. Looking forward to having you on board!

I just received the invitation code, so I could get started.
However, can some one explain to me how "photo thieves" are identified?  I'm talking microstock here.  99% of my stock photos on the internet are (hopefully) legally bought from one of the agencies.  So the only cases where theft is a sure thing are :  (1) watermark still on photo, and (2) photo is for sale by a website that is NOT a partner of one of the agencies.
I can hardly believe Pixsy is going to check all this, so is it correct to assume that - if I upload 5000 images (or can I send a link to Shutterstock?) - I am the one who should alert Pixsy and not the other way round?

Interesting service.
But Google search has found one of my images on a website that Pixsy did not find.

Hmm, thought I'd give this a try and signed up for the free account.

Unfortunately, that only give cover for 500 images now, and not the 5000 mentioned above.